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iPhone 14 Pro Wide Camera Rumored to Feature 21% Wider Sensor for 48-Megapixel Images
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Well it'll improve image resolution slightly. But cost a lot of low light performance, which is rubbish anyway without a whole bunch of computation.
The main problem with even the iPhone 13 Pro is that there is a big zoom gap between the 1x and 3x lenses which requires digital zoom and some horrible looking interpolation. It might improve that as you mention.
Here's a good illustration. Everything between these two is a crappy compromise which is pretty useless.
But screw it I bought a mirrorless because I want completely linear zoom and a sensor that's a LOT larger than this one.
DOESNT MATTER IF THEY DON’T LET US DISABLE THE WATERCOLOR PROCESSING
Just stuff it in raw mode. All your shots will look as miserable as you want!
Increased resolution will translate into poorer light performance unless it's a big enough boost in resolution to minimize the noise when scaled down. So it's a bit of a tradeoff. It sounds ridiculous, but I almost think they should just incorporate multiple sensors for light performance? They already do this for each lens's focal length. Why not just make 6 lenses. Have 10-12MP sensors behind their wide/normal/telephoto lenses to be used for lowlight purposes (and for smaller file sizes), and then put 30-45MP sensors behind an additional set of wide/normal/telephoto lenses for high-resolution purposes. It's a ridiculous amount of lenses, but it makes sense. That would increase the cost dramatically though.
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Or you could symlink a .photoslibrary folder to an 20TB NAS and occasionally mass-dump them off iCloud so you don't have to give Apple any extra $$$ 💅 😋
Does the average user really need bigger cameras? It seems that's all what phone makers do now to justify people turning their perfectly capable cameras just to spend more money? For example, I just recently upgraded from the iPhone 6s+ to the iPhone 8. I went from one camera on the the back to two. Wow! Anytime I take a picture with my iPhone 8 and want to email it to somebody, I still have to downsize it by 50% because the file is so freaking huge, not to mention convert it back to JPG because nobody on Windows knows how to view these heic files. Just saying. I understand people who are really into photos, but the average user taking a picture of their kids on vacation? Do we really need five different lenses on the back? JMTC
so the lightning port must also get a bump because of 48MP or 8K vid?
They really need to add more optical zoom. At the minimum 10x.
I think I need help with the math. I'm always confused by why sensors are 1/1.3 and 1/1.65 instead of .77 and .61
And then if its going from .60606 to .76923, isn't that a 26.9% increase? And .76923 to .60606 would be a 21.2% decrease. I'm really not sure, btw! I'm not just trying to be smart. This stuff always confuses me.
And then if its going from .60606 to .76923, isn't that a 26.9% increase? And .76923 to .60606 would be a 21.2% decrease. I'm really not sure, btw! I'm not just trying to be smart. This stuff always confuses me.
No one cares about 8K video. They want 48 MP because the cameras are still not good enough in bright light. We should be able to zoom out digital images a little bit without immediately getting tons of unusable noise.
No at present other top android phones like S22 ultra, pixel 6 pro and Vivo 70 plus produces better photos overall in many situations. That's why apple taking this jump is a must to move forward photography wise
So if that’s the case, then the 13 was really just an ‘S year’, but Macro-mode will be a decent advantage in addition migrated over to the larger sensor/48 megapixel for the 14.
For me personally, if the 14 would still offer the 48 megapixel and the periscope lens, that would be worth standing in line for.
For me personally, if the 14 would still offer the 48 megapixel and the periscope lens, that would be worth standing in line for.
Sounds like periscope lens is coming next year. 5x optical based off early rumours
Your logic is dated. You’re basically stating that Jobs never would’ve kept innovating, and he was really only around for the infancy of the iPhone, not the latter part of how advanced it’s become in terms of the camera technology. Smart phones are progressive technology, and that means that comes with change.
And Steve Jobs was against an iPad larger than 9 inches, he called that size “perfect”. Same with iPhone's screens larger than 4 inches and famously hated styluses. Well… look how things changed.
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No. iPhones reign on video recording, but the photography battle is a little more contested. Blind tests show Android phones beating iPhones in several categories, zoom being the obvious weakness but also in edge detection algorithms, color reproduction and low-light situations.
In brightly lit scenes the winner often comes down to personal preference since most high end smartphones are just very good already.
Don’t forget, “Jobs never would’ve done that….”
Because, you know Jobs logic would’ve stayed absolutely the same from 2007 all the way until 2022. (At least, that seems to be the general belief of members on here who apparently think they had Steve Jobs completely figured out and where the company would be today.)
Oh come now, how big is the sensor in a iPhone 13 Max compared to a typical DLSL camera for low light photography of the night sky? While the iPhone 13 Max takes very good images for most applications, the sensor still is about 43 mm as shown on the diagram below compared to other camera sensor standards.
Here's a comparison of various camera sensors
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Makes me nervous. All of the first generation higher MP sensors seem to struggle with the quality of output where the smaller lenses didn’t.