iPhone 5S camera ACTUALLY is better than iPhone 5 camera in almost every aspects.
It's not just marketing ....
Megapixels aren't anything, above 5-6 Mpixel. Sensor dimensions, aperture, lenses are way more important.
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iPhone 6 Rear Camera to Retain 8-Megapixel Sensor, Offer Improved Image Stabilization?
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iPhone 5S camera ACTUALLY is better than iPhone 5 camera in almost every aspects.
It's not just marketing ....
Megapixels aren't anything, above 5-6 Mpixel. Sensor dimensions, aperture, lenses are way more important.
...of which the Nokia 1020 has over the 5S. Are you gonna say it's the better camera?
I would much rather see a more stable image than more pixels. I get so tired of blurred photos.
Did you realize that speaking about a camera, bigger sensor and wider aperture means a totally different world ?
Nobody is suggesting that Apple is going to use the same part. The article is only suggesting that the next part Apple uses may be 8MP. Apple has been using 8MP part for a few generations, but the camera itself has been significantly improved with each generation. The difference in quality between the 4s and 5s is night and day.
The most rational reason to want higher MP is to improve the quality of zooming. But this seems wrong to me because it only results in wasting most of the surface on your sensor. If we need to increase size to solve this issue, I feel that the goal should be a thin optical zoom lens instead of larger sensors.
Not a single review reported Samsung S4 camera as significantly better than iPhone 5S ....
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Are we the sheeps ?
Noooo dude, you are the perfect target for Samesung marketing: add 0.2" and 2 Mpixel at every iteration to attract more customers ....
I would hope future iPhones (and iPads) would have a higher Megapixel count, not for bigger photos but so you can use the zoom and not loose quality. One thing I hate about using the 5s is having to step closer to frame the shot, with my DSLR I'd just zoom and be done with it.
I'd expect the iPhone 6 to be 12 Mega or better.
I'd expect the iPhone 6 to be 12 Mega or better.
Nokia 1020 has a better camera than iPhone 5S .... but it is a kind of smartphone I would never get, even if it was a gift.
Personally, the only reason I wouldn't use it is because it's on AT&T. Now if someone else were paying the bill, and bought it; or if Sprint carried it and someone bought it then I am game!
So far I've had nothing but good luck and I've grown SO MUCH by leaving the Apple ecosystem.
For example, every service Apple and Google offers is available on Windows 8. It's like having the best of both worlds!
Form factor and operative system .... I have a Lumia 620, and while I like it more than any Android phone I used to have, it's just "not enough" for me.
Btw a camera-centric phone is not my target, since I have a DSLR for serious shoots.
SONY charges 50% more than the competitors. If Apple going to higher MP image sensors from SONY, it is going to cost Apple a lot more. SONY does not care if its used in its own product.
"In my imagination" is your location, and the place where every service Apple and Google offers is available on windows 8
Agreed. The photos from the lumia are incredible. Better than most compact digital cameras and on par with some micro 4/3 cameras I've seen.
They make my iPhone 5 photos look like crayons drawings.
In theory yes, but this won't help if the lens doesn't form a good image or if the picture elements become small resulting in noise and low dynamic range. The more electrons you can accumulate in each cell the clearer the image. Smaller cells in the sensor magnify any flaws in the lens and any camera motion while taking a picture.
I am a picture printer. Love Shutterfly
With more megapixels, there's more room to crop a picture and still have high quality. I upload everything to Google+/Flickr/Skydrive anyway, storage is not an issue.The 5s takes beautiful pictures in natural light, and still settings (burst mode is OK). I just went to Winter Wonderland at night, and half the pictures at night are terrible. We brought along a Canon PowerShot ELPH 310 HS that cost $200 a few years ago, it blew my 5s out of the park.
There is still much to be improved. The 12 megapixels of the 310 helped (as well as the 5s refusing to AutoFlash because I trusted it that night).
Again, its not MPs that make a decent photo. Its also lens and size of sensor. Im glad its at 8MP, the chase to add more and more MP is crazy and does not give a better photo, only a bigger printable photo with the same noise. So i like apple keeping the MP size and work on the other parts of taking a photo.
"In my imagination" is your location, and the place where every service Apple and Google offers is available on windows 8
FUNNY! Although if it was in my imagination for real it'd be OSX on top notch hardware for a drop dead price.
More megapixels means the PowerShot ELPH 310 HS can take shots further away than the 5s and still look better.
I really don't understand the problem. The iPhone 5S already takes remarkable pictures. Any improvement will be welcome, but simply a bonus.
Hopefully Apple continues to improve the camera software.
Hopefully Apple continues to improve the camera software.
