This will be the make or break for me, between 5.4” mini or 6.1” pro. If the 6.1” pro doesn’t have ALLL the same features as the Pro Max, I ain’t buyin.
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This will be the make or break for me, between 5.4” mini or 6.1” pro. If the 6.1” pro doesn’t have ALLL the same features as the Pro Max, I ain’t buyin.
That's not how lenses work. The larger the sensor, the wider and longer your lens needs to be and we're not talking focal length here, actual physical length. You don't want a snap-on lens on a phone or an automatically telescoping one like pocket cameras on a smart phone. For long focal lengths, the periscope works great (sensor and lens mounted sideways and a 45° mirror at the end) on big Android phones.
The idea between multiple cameras is that you have multiple sensors and the software combines it all smartly. Taking a picture with the normal or telephoto lens will use the image from the wider lenses to gather additional light to reduce noise, also the wide angle lens is fantastic for automatic wide balance since it sees a lot of the surrounding environment.
Think of it like having a whole bunch of cameras with prime lenses on them, all running at once. In many circumstances a modern smartphone gets you better pictures than a medium range DSLR from 8 years ago.
Being able to measure objects in real life, with your phone, would absolutely be a game-changing feature to me. I am often in situations I wish I had a tape measure with me. A lidar sensor isn't really a "feature" it's a tool that then allows people to invent features for it. And there's no way to know whether people will make useful apps around it until you throw it out there and see what happens. AR does not have to be relegated to playing stupid virtual games on a coffee table. And just because something isn't used every day doesn't make it worthless. In the medical community, AR can have a profound impact and save lives. Imagine you are with someone that is having a heart attack, and you hold your phone up and it shows you all the defibrillators that are nearby. In medical training, it could help nurses see the location of veins on a human body. I know it seems stupid now, and maybe it will end up being a flop, but we won't know until it's out in the public and developers start getting creative with it.
That camera bump gets uglier and uglier every year.
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No one would use LiDAR it’s another wasted feature, AR is not needed
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Not coming unfortunately
I think you are confusing Lidar with X-Ray. I don’t know that Lidar does anything but map an area and be able to show how real world items will fill into that area. It can’t locate particular objects for you and maps the area around you for better accuracy. It’s a camera that enhances distance and measurement, it can’t see through the human body to locate veins so I don’t really understand what you are talking about here.
As a photographer, you should know that the larger the sensor, the farther away the lens needs to be from that sensor. One the size of the camera bump as you’re suggesting would result in a lens more than an inch thick protruding from the body.
Multiple lenses is an ingenious way to get around that limitation while also adding multiple focal lengths. There is room from a technology standpoint to make sensors more efficient at capturing light on smaller surfaces. There is no room to overcome the physics of how light is projected on a surface from close proximity.
Ah yes, the fictitious phobia for people who are tired of not getting enough attention for their "Lactose intolerance".
Dunno about that phobia, but it should be noted that lactose intolerance affects 2/3rds of human adult population.
I want more than 12MP camera after all these years. Not Lidar gimmicks
Tape measures are my chapstick. I have one in every room and despite using one this morning I still think it would take me 20 min to find one. I’d love a reliable way to measure. The dream would be to get it down to a mm.
No. LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging. It’s used to accurately measure distances. It will allow AR to be extremely accurate in overlaying things on physical objects. It will also allow the Measure app to be much more accurate than it currently is. Right now if you move around too much it can get a little confused.
With him talking about veins, I think he was referring to overlaying a schematic of the veins on someone’s arm. I’m not sure how accurate that would be since everybody is different.
The sensors are rumored to grow 10% in size this year. And I agree a single but great camera is all it takes, remember Pixel 3, it had a single 12 MPx sensor that blew the big guys away.
Based on this picture I don’t see any major lens size change compared to my 11 Pro Max.
Edit: To all of you saying LiDAR is useless you have no idea of the potential it portraits. I have been using LiDAR for Topography for years now, it is amazing. I have also used it for live scanning and some of my friends in Architecture and Interior Design use it to make very realistic projections. Yes I don't expect it to be anywhere as good as commercial products are, but to have it handy in your phone is going to be very cool.
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A LIDAR scanner that will eventually be dropped in 2-3 years.
I will get the Max, but the current Max barely fits my built in car charger. The .2 inch bigger 2020 Max might break it.