Apple should introduce both size phones at the WWDC this summer and stop fooling around.
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iPhone 6 Camera May Feature Electronic Image Stabilization, Bigger Pixel Size
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Haha, this guy.
See Mophie at http://www.mophie.com/shop/iphone-5?gclid=CO-h-6zihb4CFbFFMgodh1AAhA Not only does it provide far more battery life, it's a great protective case. I've dropped my 5s several times a week onto hard floors and concrete, and it has totally protected my phone. The increase in size is well worth it. (and my cat loves the charging cable at night)
Electronic Image Stabilization? That's definitely not as good as optical image stabilization, especially in low-light scenarios.
I'll never forget what my photography professor said on the first day of class. "Great photographs are made by great photographers, not cameras." He also had it plastered on the classroom wall as a reminder us of why we were there. We saw it play out over the years as students with the fanciest most expensive equipment fell far short on results.
The genius with Nokia's 50 MP camera is not the megapixels, it's when it downscales it to 6 MP and provide noiseless photos. I want to see Apple doing that.
but then: why not just make the pixel bigger with less noise and better low-light capability, the sensor cheaper and have the same 6MP. I know: Marketing.
Why wouldn't they upgrade the 5S, which I assume would still be sold?
Interesting name dilemma.
iPhone 6 small (5S with improvements)
iPhone 6 medium
iPhone 6 large (2015)
great link!
not something i didnt know, but I always had a hard time explaining it to less tech geeky people. Will be bookmarking to forward
I do share your concern sir. However, if you've looked up the new oppo phone and check one of its features, you'll find it charges a battery almost twice the size of an iPhone up to 80% within approx. 20 minutes. lets wait it out
Actually downsampling from 41mp to 6 nets much cleaner images (especially if you sharpen the result intelligently) than a 6mp right off the sensor, all things equal. And if you need to "zoom" with the 41mp you can change your binning strategy and end up with a quality zoomed result vs the scale and crop method of the other.
We sure did, but your math is much more substantial then me looking up the equivalents...I am just into photography...math concerning optics often gives me headaches
There are times I want to have a smaller sized photo...I like how Apple didn't jump up in MP when many shots are not used with that in mind...and suck up more of the space on my phone.
I've printed 6MP camera photos to 30x40 poster size...and even onto truck wraps. It can be done. Now, my new camera at 16 MP can easily produce images that can print that large but what I also like is cropping. I have cropped Horizontal to Vertical and at an Easter Egg hunt I was shooting two girls and between them one was always blinking or moving so I was able to crop a couple shots into single-person portraits.
I've printed 6MP camera photos to 30x40 poster size...and even onto truck wraps. It can be done. Now, my new camera at 16 MP can easily produce images that can print that large but what I also like is cropping. I have cropped Horizontal to Vertical and at an Easter Egg hunt I was shooting two girls and between them one was always blinking or moving so I was able to crop a couple shots into single-person portraits.
and clueless people will still complain that it doesn't have 40 megapixel like other camera.
Why are you bothered by it? The price has been the same for years. The phone is getting better. The price increase isn't very significant once you spread that cost over a two year ownership. And you will likely recoup a chunk of that price increase if you resell your phone two years later.
Of course we want to spend less on phones, but really the iPhones have been great value. My Mom is still using my iPhone 4 and it works great and it looks great. It is approaching four years old! Even if I had spent another $100 on it when I purchased it, would I feel like I didn't get great value out of it? No.
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Come on. If you are standing a few feet from two little girls, you could certainly have cropped that photo into something that you could print to 8 by 11 even if you were using a 6MP. What I'm saying is that a nice 6 MP picture can easily be cropped into 1/4 and then blown up and look nice. I've never owned anything past 8MP, but I find it hard to believe that cropping becomes a factor unless you are cropping and want to print poster size. If you just want to print normal picture size, then any good picture can be cropped significantly and a nice print can be made.
So Apple may go the bigger pixel route like HTC and not the megapixel route like Samsung and Nokia. But before we write off megapixels take a look at some of these camera phone pics.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/nokia/rio/main.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/nokia/rio/main.html
Please don't put the price up, my goodness these things are pricey enough as it is. I want to buy an unlocked 6, but I could buy a MBA for that price!
Not of big fan of EIS
Better than nothing, but all it does is trim the video boarder to stabilize a central area, then expand that area to fill the frame...resulting in image deterioration. I used the technique in various apps. Probably best used to eliminate small amounts of movement caused by hand shaking not larger camera movement while panning.
Better than nothing, but all it does is trim the video boarder to stabilize a central area, then expand that area to fill the frame...resulting in image deterioration. I used the technique in various apps. Probably best used to eliminate small amounts of movement caused by hand shaking not larger camera movement while panning.
I just wish there was the option so we could have best of both. Say, two lenses (one with big sensors another with normal) as I was going to buy an HTC One the other day until I rechecked the comparisons and whilst ~80% of my shots are in low light, the outdoor ones were just unbearable. The 5S has a good balance but not good enough over my 4S to make me stump up the cash.
Now imagine a phone with the two lenses, best of both or even, epic HDR! Perhaps the HTC One M8 missed a cooler, more useful trick.
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Many pixels are not bad in general (take a look at some D800 photos!), but when it comes to smartphones it all comes down to making compromises.
Nokias try on this was: take a huge (for a smartphone or even compact camera) 2/3" sensor and tiny pixels to get great resolution and if other stuff (low light performance, zooming) is needed, do it with software (downscaling, hdr, ...). It's a good approach but has a few drawbacks. Btw you could print a Nokia Lumia 1020 picture with 300dpi and it would be 60cm in length!!!
Apples approach is, to find the best mix of stunning low-light performance (HTC Ultrapixel) and the huge resolutions (Samsung - not naming Nokia here, because their approach is a bit different than Samsungs).
When you consider, that a 2/3" sensor with the usual 30mm (Apples favorite focal length is seems) eq. focal length, this would result in ~7.8mm focal length. To fit such a camera module (preferable with OIS) into a smartphone it would probably be a thick as the Nokia (around 11mm!). And yes, I do think that we don't need a 6.5mm thin device and that camera and batterylife > thinness, but only to a certain extent