iPhone 13 Pro Max 200 MP cameras?

[HDFan]

200 MP gives you more cropping options, particularly important in bird photography where you often can't get that close.

Downside is managing all of those 25 MB files. 40 files would fill a phone with 1 GB of storage. Scrolling on your computer through a lot of the pictures you took on your vacation would take a lot of time just to load them on your screen even with a very fast disk. That's not even considering the permanent storage space required which would quickly move into the terabyte range if you take a lot of pictures.

 

[kc9hzn]

Seems like 200MP is a lot like HiRes audio. As a consumer application, it doesn’t have a lot of value, because of the same it takes up as well as the level of quantization being too high for our senses to get much value from. But both of them are probably useful in a professional context, where you almost always want more data than the final product, you almost always want some headroom. That said, I’m sure some phones either outright lie about their megapixel count or use high megapixel count sensors since they make for great marketing copy but cheap out on the rest of the optics that are harder to quantify for mainstream consumers in an eye catching way.

 

[jav6454]

200 MP gives you more cropping options, particularly important in bird photography where you often can't get that close.

Downside is managing all of those 25 MB files. 40 files would fill a phone with 1 GB of storage. Scrolling on your computer through a lot of the pictures you took on your vacation would take a lot of time just to load them on your screen even with a very fast disk. That's not even considering the permanent storage space required which would quickly move into the terabyte range if you take a lot of pictures.

Agreed, but that's where DSLRs come in. Pro telephoto lens to capture said images.

 

[HDFan]

Agreed, but that's where DSLRs come in. Pro telephoto lens to capture said images.

If you have $20K for a Canon RF1200 that might help. I use an 800 mm and even at 30 feet I still have to do major cropping when shooting small birds. 200 megapixels would give me much better pictures.

 

[jav6454]

If you have $20K for a Canon RF1200 that might help. I use an 800 mm and even at 30 feet I still have to do major cropping when shooting small birds. 200 megapixels would give me much better pictures.

Well, $20k is quite the amount of money. But then again, a serious photographer would benefit highly from it.

 

[fs454]

Putting 200 megapixels in a phone-sized camera sensor is like putting a 300mph speedometer in a clapped out 1994 Toyota Corolla. It's never going to resolve that, and it's not going to help performance as much as any dumb Android spec-sheet boaster thinks it might and actually may greatly hurt performance for every real-world situation that isn't shooting a resolution chart in extremely bright lighting. There's a reason the vast, vast majority of professionals aren't shooting 200 megapixels even on large format digital backs.

I am looking forward to the quad-bayer 12mp/48mp hybrid sensors Apple should be putting in soon as I could certainly use a little more than 12mp, but even that is a bit much. The DJI Mavic Air 2 from a few years back uses a variation of these Sony quad bayer units and while it was cool to swap to 48mp mode, it came with some pretty tough image quality tradeoffs in other areas. Apple certainly needs something though to support its terrible habit of cropping into 12mp sensors without telling the user - like, in absolutely no way is a 3x crop of a 12mp main sensor better than a noisier native capture out of the actual 3x camera on the 13 Pro Max. Absolutely hate that they opt to just crop that far in on the stock camera app without telling the user if the software determines it wants to do that. Every single image that is even a little bit cropped from native sensor size on the iPhone looks terrible.

 

[Jack Neill]

Pixel count alone doesn’t really mean anything.

I remember in the Lumia days the 1020 dropped and had that insane camera and I wanted one so bad so I got one and was really quite disappointed with it. Pixel count alone doesn’t really mean anything is right.

 

[jav6454]

I remember in the Lumia days the 1020 dropped and had that insane camera and I wanted one so bad so I got one and was really quite disappointed with it. Pixel count alone doesn’t really mean anything is right.

It never has, Apple themselves explained it when released the iPhone 4 and 4S. Those two iPhones were the first ones in which Apple started to focus on better sensor, lenses and a pixel count that made sense for the smartphone camera.