...and I bet the majority of them resize their photos immediately once taken to save memory
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iPhone 6s Rear Camera Rumored to Retain 8-Megapixel Sensor
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...and I bet the majority of them resize their photos immediately once taken to save memory
Full HD is 2MP, so 8MP is plenty, especially when photos on, say, Facebook are scaled down.
I know most companies do more pixels = smaller pixels = more noise, but it'd be good to have, say 16mp with no more noise. So, a more 'crop-able' picture, but not lower quality than 8MP.
I know most companies do more pixels = smaller pixels = more noise, but it'd be good to have, say 16mp with no more noise. So, a more 'crop-able' picture, but not lower quality than 8MP.
Unless Apple is going to go on a crusade to educate everyone to that fact, they would be wise to give the megapixels a slight bump. The standard seems to be 13 now. Obviously we don't need 25 or 50.
It'd be great to have a new feature - like Touch ID on the iPhone 5S - but if the 6S only has spec upgrades like double the RAM or a faster GPU and GPU, then I will still be one happy customer.
At this point I can't really see much of a benefit of having less megapixels in the camera. Yes, it's not just about those, but nevertheless it's about time to upgrade that aspect.
I don't think they need to any more than they need to educate us that an iPhone with a dual core processor matches an Android running on quad-core. They just build a good experience and pekple buy into it. They advertise the other advance things about the camera.
And yet the iPhone camera is consistently one of the best out there on a smartphone for just pointing and shooting.
My 6+ camera is easily my second best, just below my Lumina. I don't get how it's disappointing, the 6 has almost the same camera.
They haven't changed the MP count since the 4S, so I don't see how this is a disappointment. Were you disappointed by the 5S as well? Was it a dud?
The bezel aren't there because they're cheap, they serve a purpose.
But this is impossible within the the physical size limitations of the lens and the sensor. Why end up with worse pictures 20 to 30% of the time, for that one picture out of a 100 where a huge amount of cropping is useful? Basically you will make all pictures taken indoors worse by going to 16MB (and much worse if you aren't using flash or in a very very well lit room), just so you can get some crop of an outdoor landscape picture. Most of my pictures are taken when I'm in doors so that is a net negative for me in a big way. And I'm also rarely cropping landscape pictures since I want the entire landscape.
I've got the solution to that. Make the iPhone 7 slightly thicker, include a bigger battery and AM/FM antennas. The iPhone gets better and the camera bulge disappears!
They wouldn't really need to do a massive jump in megapixels like their competitors. But 10 would be good enough for the foreseeable future since that would allow them to implement 4K recording.
Although I don't really expect them to introduce 4K until iPhone 7.
The original rumor came from John Gruber, who is a much more reliable source.
The camera quality is one of the last complaints I hear from people when comparing phones to Samsung.
It's time for a megapixel upgrade. Considering these don't have physical zooming, the extra megapixels are useful to have.
There is no reason at this point we can't have a 12 or so megapixel sensor that retains excellent image quality.
Not to mention 4K video recording which will require more as well.
The camera quality is one of the last complaints I hear from people when comparing phones to Samsung.
It's time for a megapixel upgrade. Considering these don't have physical zooming, the extra megapixels are useful to have.
There is no reason at this point we can't have a 12 or so megapixel sensor that retains excellent image quality.
Not to mention 4K video recording which will require more as well.
The current camera at 8MP, with each pixel at 1.5u. Leave the 8MP but increase the pixel size to 1.7u = will probably increase the bump a little. Still this will improve low light performance and reduce noise all around.
Also, Apple does have a patent to take several pictures in a hyper-burst mode and stitch them together to create a higher MP picture. So if they increase the pixel size and add this technology, they could make everyone happy.
Also, Apple does have a patent to take several pictures in a hyper-burst mode and stitch them together to create a higher MP picture. So if they increase the pixel size and add this technology, they could make everyone happy.
Better processor, better WiFi, more RAM maybe, improving the sensor of the 8mp camera, better battery life because of another SoC shrink... that's all I've got right now.
Pixels, as always, are overrated by most who can't see past what they can read on spec sheet.
It's the sensor that's important!!!
And I'm one of the people who upgrades to the s model just for the camera.
It's the sensor that's important!!!
And I'm one of the people who upgrades to the s model just for the camera.
This is not like RAM where more is better. Apple have continuously said in their keynotes that more is not better when it comes to sensors. It's the engineering put into it. The number of lenses, the chip, the technology used, that's what counts. It's not coincidence that the iPhone 6+ outperforms many high end smartphones with more MPs.
That depends on the pixel density. The 5K iMac is....5K, which is 5120-by-2880, which is 14.7 MP. The Given the iPhone's Camera's 4:3 (or 3:4), you'd need a 19.7 MP 4:3 photo to crop to 16:9 to use as the background on a 5k iMac without stretching it. A 4K monitor would need a 11.1 MP 4:3 photo to crop to 16:9. That still doesn't give you any room to zoom/crop. 8MP simply isn't what it used to be.
I don't know when they'll do 4K, but this is when I expect we'll see a modest MP jump to accommodate it. I don't expect that too soon though. Even iPhone 7 is probably pushing it. I could easily see it being a 7s or even 8 thing.