iPhone 6 Rumored to Include 10+-Megapixel Camera with f/1.8 Aperture and Improved Filter

[aerok]

I guess you can't trump skills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnUavVTTjb8
(David Hobby, pro photographer using that exact camera)

As for the iPhone. There's no doubt in my mind that more pixels on the camera is the least of it's worries. For starters, the iPhone's bane is low light, the image gets very grainy very fast.

Next I don't think the camera even resolves it's current 8MPix. Even when in good light, the image is a bit blurry and noisy when looking at 100%. That's doesn't really matter as no one looks at pictures at 100% other than if you print them huge. But it still tells us that there would be little gain with more pixels, I don't think the lens resolves it anyhow.

Lastly, the dynamic range of the camera is pretty bad. In other words, if there's a big difference between the dark and light parts of the image, it will the image starts loosing detail. IE, an indoor shot with a window on a bright day will show up completely white rather than show you some detail of the outdoors.

Better lens, larger sensor, better noise capability on the sensor, image stabilization should be prioritized. 8MPix is plenty from what I see people do with the images from their phones.

Yeah saw the vid already, that's where I got the idea to post that camera lol

 

[Premium1]

Good, low light is where the 5S still struggles so this will be a welcome addition more so than just the added megapixels..

 

[StyxMaker]

I really just want a bigger battery which allows for a full day without thinking.

You want to go a whole day without thinking? Is it really that hard for you?

 

[perealb]

I'd be very interested to hear about these improvements and how they work. Details please.

I'm surprised with your inquiry since "technological improvement" seems like an obvious concept to understand. I'm not arguing against that a bigger sensor is better but that's a valid argument when you're are comparing todays sensors. Let's take in consideration full frame sensors. If you compare the first full frame DSLR (Canon EOS 1Ds) with the most current full frame DSLR from Canon (EOS 1D C), you'll see a great improvement in image quality. Not because of filters or other post image processings, but because the sensor hardware itself was improved - even though megapixels increased. The image quality and ISO range sensitivity (specially in low light) improved quite a bit. Like I said before, in a phone, you want to keep the sensor small but improve it so you get better images. You can easily see that improvement when you compare the images from all versions of the iPhone. You can see that, since the iPhone 4, the sensors have been the same size but there are obvious improvements in the image comparing all the way through the iPhone 5S. Even though the sensors of the iPhones before the 4 were smaller, the size difference was not that much and the image quality was disproportionally worse. See those two links:

http://cameraimagesensor.com/size/#189,236,167,165,164,a

http://campl.us/posts/6iPhoneCameras

 

[Menneisyys2]

Even though the sensors of the iPhones before the 4 were smaller, the size difference was not that much and the image quality was disproportionally worse. See those two links:

http://cameraimagesensor.com/size/#189,236,167,165,164,a

http://campl.us/posts/6iPhoneCameras

Agreed. Both the 3GS and the 3G were mostly let down by their lousy lens. The 4's lens was far better, contributing much to the image quality improvement.

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

AC is largely pointless. Better to hope it actually supports multiple WiFi streams. Unlike AC, that'd allow for doubling the throughput, and it would be an improvement that works with just about every single router from the past 7 years.

While I agree that multiple streams would be wonderful, AC is not pointless at all. AC actually makes the 5GHz band useful, and beam forming can make the range better than the 2.4GHz band.

 

[CFreymarc]

Apple really need to provide a richer API for 3rd party apps. I can understand their own app being automatic and super easy to use but at least provide the ability for other developers to provide a more complex app with manual control.

Agree! They just keep on upping the pixel count and passing on image filtering API but nothing to address the camera hardware directly. Somewhere in Cupertino there is a good internal doc with their reason for this decision.