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Apple May Introduce 'Biggest Camera Jump Ever' in Next-Generation iPhone

Tankmaze said:
The S version next year is getting more interesting :
- potential quad core
- 2gb ram obviously
- now this camera upgrade

Oo yeah i'm gonna wait next year to upgrade my iphone 5.
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So Apple will definitely be adding more RAM in the s models?
 
3GS - new CPU, double the RAM of 3G, upgraded camera, compass, etc.
4S - dual core CPU, same RAM as 4, upgrade to camera, Siri, new antenna, better home button, etc.
5S - upgraded CPU, same RAM as 5, minor upgrade to camera, Touch ID, gold option

So a camera upgrade is quite obvious, hopefully much bigger than previous upgrades since I don't think there will be a lot of selling points for the 6S/6S+. Not sure about the RAM upgrade but it will be a deal breaker if it doesn't have it.
 
walie said:
so can we expect to see wedding photographers packing iPhones at a job soon?
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lol, doubt that, but I can see the point and shoot crowd getting blow up if true.

I've been on the "S" upgrade but I took a 6+, Apr.15? could possibly reset that.
 
Markiie said:
this is going on the iPhone 7. no way something like this makes a S model phone. Sorry.
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Not necessarily, the camera in the 4s was a huge update from the 4 (in addition to a dual core CPU).

I would love, love a big advance on the 6s camera (and the 6 camera update was fantastic from the 5s and that was a great camera) - and its the only thing (if the advance is significant enough) that would get me to update year over year.

It speaks well of Apple's leadership that they have identified how important this part of the iPhone is (to a big group of its users) and are pouring the R&D into its advancement in radical ways.
 
CFreymarc said:
While the Digital SLR business has been compromised by smartphones, the high end has actually done much better. One of the big things amongst hardcore camera buffs are "gigapixel integrated" cameras. Some of these have very large physical lenses and taking very detailed images on an array of CCDs aligned so just a few wavelengths are missed. Some of the best are there gigapixel city scape photos of enter skylines and you can zoom into seeing people in skyscrapers and drivers in streets.
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I've seen a few of those and they are utterly amazing. HUGE image sensors with pixels no smaller than on the average DSLR. You just keep cropping and zooming and the detail never ends.

I'll bet the NSA has some spy sattelites with gigapixel sensors mated to insanely good glass. They can probably count the number of pubes on a terrorists junk.
 
iPhone 6S & 6S+ 3D Displays Linked

I think if this is true, Apple might be thinking of taking 3D photos with the dual camera setup that can be visible on a 3D screen.

Then for those that do not want the 3D photos, then they can obviously take advantage of the advantages listed in the main article and similar to the HTC One M8 in terms of focusing, zooming, etc.

EDIT: #FirstPostOnMacRumours Great community here and happy to now be a part of it!
 
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I recently took my iPhone 6 for a vacation and I was blown away by the picture as well as video quality. It was even amazing when I played the videos on my HDTV.

It completely replaced my consumer video camera.
 
macduke said:
I'm wondering if this new type of imaging sensor that can produce dSLR type images is somehow related to their patent (from I think earlier this year) that talked about making a higher-megapixel image from an image stabilizer. Perhaps they realized that they can do a better job with two lenses?

If I remember right, the way this thing works is that it takes the differences between the two images, and adds the pixels together between them to make a higher resolution image. For instance, if you took two photos with two cameras at the same time, they would have slightly different imaging information due to varying sensor noise, a slightly different perspective, etc. That is all different data that, when combined with a complex algorithm, could potentially create a higher resolution image by matching them together at the right points. Since the camera on the right would have a slightly different vantage point than the camera on the left, you could get additional data points that would take a normally jaggy edge and add an additional point between each pixel to smooth it out properly without having to resort to simple image interpolation (which essentially creates data from nothing and isn't very useful for creating high resolution images). This could potentially interpolate between pixels using additional image data, creating a very high resolution output.

Additionally you could also do some things like have a slightly different focus between the two, then combine them together in software to make background bokeh blur more pronounced behind your subject. Or you could selectively remove image noise by comparing one sensor's output with another, which would have a different noise pattern, match the noise pattern and remove it with software and image data from the other sensor that doesn't have as much noise present at that location.

Lots of really cool stuff you could do with two cameras, besides stupid 3D. That close together won't make for much of a 3D effect anyway unless they're clear on the other side from each other.
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Ok,

So basically the same way our eyes work;)
 
Sign me up. I was planning on holding on to my 6 for a while but if this is true I might have to make the jump.
 
iPhones are so expensive now they really need to slow this treadmill down to bi or triennial releases and give people time to enjoy the devices they just bought.
 
topmounter said:
iPhones are so expensive now they really need to slow this treadmill down to bi or triennial releases and give people time to enjoy the devices they just bought.
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I enjoy my device for two years. I like to see Apple try out new things every year, even if it's not my year to buy. I watched people using TouchID for a year, while I still had to enter my PIN. But then it was upgrade time, and I got TouchID with ApplePay!

New cars come out every year also, but I don't feel I have to buy a new one each time.
 
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Brings back memory
It's sad what happens to Nokia,
the original trailblazer....
 
Fishticks said:
Will the system be using saphire technology or liquid metal technology ?
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I hope they use liquid metal. But they'll only do it if it makes sense and serves a purpose. They won't do it just because it's cool. And they certainly won't do it just to make me rich as an owner of 30,000 shares of LQMT.
 
i can offer the "biggest jump ever" too if i sky dive :)

A 16 megapixel sensor cannot compare to the same as a 21 of a true HDR camera, even with true tone flash...Your not going to get the same results.

No phone can compare with a true camera...... but it is abut time we saw an improvement. in the camera on iPhone.

I guess one thing and probably the reason Apple always kept 8 in the part was it knows how to do sharpness and lenses trickery well.
 
macduke said:
Lots of really cool stuff you could do with two cameras, besides stupid 3D. That close together won't make for much of a 3D effect anyway unless they're clear on the other side from each other.
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I don't want them to do stupid 3D. I want them to do smart 3D. Use the two lenses to capture scene data and build a 3D model in the camera's memory. Then turn that model back into a dynamic stereo image with head tracking. Do a 3D pano shot, and view it on an Oculus Rift, or other VR headset.
 
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist–Shannon_sampling_theorem
Swift said:
So who says cameras are governed my physics? Yes, DSLRs will have the advantage of good Japanese or German glass. But camera phones have the enormous advantage of having an app, a powerful processor and a graphics processor on board, plus signal processing chops too. Soon enough, pro cameras will have to evolve as well to match the tricks of smartphones.
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Sorry, I was not clear. I did not mean that German glass from Zeiss, Leica or others is better.

I meant the pure physics of light which is needed to make a photo and information theorems.

In particular I am talking about refraction and the Nyquist Theorem

Even quad core CPUs cannot help.
 
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MacOSXI said:
4K please, but then 64 GB base model at least !
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This is not improving the image enough to make 4K make sense, so why on earth wish for 4K. IF they can make a 1080P high quality image that would be something already impressive. But, even there, I doubt it.

I wish people would read about optics a bit when commenting on anything related to a camera or video.

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hleewell said:
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Brings back memory
It's sad what happens to Nokia,
the original trailblazer....
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That phone (in the thick part) is twice as thick as the Iphone. That's all you need to know why it did better static images. BTW, this phone was slow as hell so the chance was good you'd actually miss the photo... Good for panoramas though ;-).
 
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