They better improve the minimum focal distance on the max, the 12 is horrid.
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Case Allegedly Designed for Upcoming iPhone 13 Pro Shows Significantly Larger Camera Module
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I have one...a Sony A7RIV, but I don't want to walk around with it all of the time. That is why I buy and expect what I do from the "pro" model., If someone does not need or want that spec, then don't buy the "Pro" model
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It is getting kind of ridiculous!
<Owner of a Pro Max iPhone> Not sure I'll go that way again. Thicker, and I assume heavier too, and a humungous camera bump? Where's my iPhone Flip anyway...
Then don't buy the pro...and if you want only camera, then you are kind of out of luck and almost all smartphones now have more than 1 camera.
My second phone, a Motorola Razr (the new one) only has one lens and it works just as well as my iPhone 11 Max Pro for the pictures I take.
Faster CPU and GPU provides an overall improvement across the whole system and makes possible more advanced functionalities and apps to be created that could improve drastically the user experience for a great majority of users.
Small improvements in photo and video quality which is the traditional headline of each new iPhone in the recent years, does not provide any significant improvement because most videos and photos will be compressed when sent via WhatsApp, Telegram or uploaded to Youtube, TikTok or Instagram, so any such improvement is in most cases lost. In addition, greater quality of photos and videos is very difficult to appreciate on the small screens, as the vast majority of video and photo content on the interned is visualized on mobile devices. All this leaves us with the fact that unless you are professional photographer or designer relying on very detailed and high-resolution photos and videos, Instagramer or similar, all camera improvements in the last two (or even more) generations of the iPhone are pretty much useless.
My point is that Apple should stop compensating for lack of innovation in the iPhone by just trowing a small improvements in the camera module and selling it as if the photography will never be the same. This whole "who has the best camera" race in which Apple actively participates has become so ridiculous in the recent years, that we now have cameraphones instead of smartphones, and we are capable of taking photos and videos in a quality that vastly exceeds what we actually need.
The improvements in photography might be more appealing to those buying Pro models.
As someone who goes for the regular models, the recent improvements have mostly been spec bumps + 1 extra selling point (wireless charging (8), new form factor (XR), Night mode photography (11), 5G (12)).
As someone who goes for the regular models, the recent improvements have mostly been spec bumps + 1 extra selling point (wireless charging (8), new form factor (XR), Night mode photography (11), 5G (12)).
Man - I still have the original/Mark 1 of the RX100 and that's still a great camera already! Haven't followed but wondering what improvements have been made since!
And here‘s me hoping that we get a flat/flush camera one day again 😅
Probably back down to the regular Pro if it has the same cameras as the Max. Hopefully they can maintain feature parity as I prefer the smaller size.
Which would mean a larger battery which I agree. However, it also adds bulk which is something not many are fond off...
Did Sony release the VIII? I was thinking about replacing my RX100 Mark III. I came close to getting the VII a few months ago, but decided I could wait for the VIII. To be honest, I’m on the fence to get a new RX because my iPhone 12 Pro seems very capable, especially compared to my Mark III.
If you have no use for a bigger and better camera on an iPhone, here's an idea: don't buy it!
There are people that make a living off of social media, YouTube that use smartphones exclusively to capture video, photos, etc. If that's not your use case, so what? I guarantee you there are many orders of magnitude of people out there in the real world who have use cases that differ from the regular users of an esoteric tech forum.
There are people that make a living off of social media, YouTube that use smartphones exclusively to capture video, photos, etc. If that's not your use case, so what? I guarantee you there are many orders of magnitude of people out there in the real world who have use cases that differ from the regular users of an esoteric tech forum.
Nope. I'm always up for better cameras. I suspect millions of others are as well.
Why not one amazing CCD and a series of fixed zoom lenses that rotate into place. The rectangular phone with a square bump is getting quite boring.
LOL. The middle and the right are extremely over-exaggerated, over-Photoshopped.
That one on the left COULD look close to the real deal based on that case, size of lens.
This is possible I guess?
Maybe they should start segmenting the lineup a bit.
The amount of cameras is getting a little out-of-control
The amount of cameras is getting a little out-of-control
So true.
The end goal is to document every moment of life....
While not actually living much of one
It seems there are people that care a lot about cameras and people that don't. Why not put the big-ass cameras only on the Pro series and keep the normal iPhone like it used to be? Then everyone can pick the one they prefer.