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iPhone With Triple-Lens Rear Camera Predicted to Launch Next Year
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Soon enough, the whole back of the iPhone will be nothing but camera lens!
(I'm joking, of course, but could you imagine?)
(I'm joking, of course, but could you imagine?)
Here's a radical idea. Apple phones should have ONE lens, and use some of that saved space to implement an adjustable aperture in it so that the camera would have variable f-stops. The reason why Apple has multiple lenses is to get around having a fixed aperture.
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Agreed. I could see how that comment puts me into said category.. Touché
My iPhone X camera is very strong. Best pocket camera ever. Even with the many DSLR's I've owned over the years and plenty of excellent glass to go with them, I still love shooting with my phone. I know they're not even close but damn some of the shots it get...
Theres a lot of personal experience that goes with what someone would call a good camera. And it really "isn't the camera". But I still love the trend here.
Theres a lot of personal experience that goes with what someone would call a good camera. And it really "isn't the camera". But I still love the trend here.
Yet the iPhone X still scored better for still images in the testing you’re most likely referencing.
Will it be triple protruding?
Depending on where on the iPhone's back they put them, this might put an end to the table wobble issue.
Actually, the reason it has multiple lenses is to get around having a fixed focal length.
Samsung SCH-B710 was a dual camera phone released in 2007. Looks like Samsung copied Apple ten years into the future.
In less than 5 years, Apple changed from a leader to a follower. Apple has lost the technological instinct and passion of the Jobs era.
I’ll bet that if Apple eventually starts selling an electric car. You ( and boi’s like you) will claim that they not only invented the electric car, but that they invented the car as a concept - they had been working on it for years.
Hopefully they can make this new camera flush with the phone body, or at least stick out less.
It's one of my greatest annoyances with the iPhone X that the lens module sticks out so much that you can't use it on a flat surface without it wobbling and clattering around with every touch!
It's one of my greatest annoyances with the iPhone X that the lens module sticks out so much that you can't use it on a flat surface without it wobbling and clattering around with every touch!
This is highly disputed and depends a lot on methodology.
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Right... Face ID... "Follower"... Removing the headphone port and going digital...
Going for the notch... "follower".
You do know also that phones like the damn P20 have just shipped mid cycle in very low quantities.
You think Apple just decided 2 months from volume production to R&D and stuff another camera in the case...
Man, the crap I have to hear.
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You're doing the same thing., so not fine, you're pretty being desingenious.
I switched from an iPhone 7 plus to a Google Pixel 2 XL. The camera (on the pixel) is amazing - better than the double barrel options I'm used to. And I'm a photographer who never liked the idea of AI photography, but in a phone with a tiny sensor and lens it makes sense. I'm in!
I'd imagine that there will be a quad camera phone in the works somewhere, but who cares? All current offerings, including the iPhones, The Pixels, and probably Samsungs and Huaweis are good enough (better than most compact cameras) and already expensive enough.
I hope the pixel 3 retains the single lens offering, but I doubt that even google will be able to hold back the tide, especially once the mighty Apple start marketing the "If you haven't done three properly like we have, then you're out of luck" line...
Unless intelligent animation is sent to augment actual captures, then a larger sensor is always going to beat a phone. Photographers know this, but it's also easy to understand that photographers side-stepping the marketing aren't necessarily the target market.
Why do they market like this? Because that kind of marketing to the masses "just works".
I'd imagine that there will be a quad camera phone in the works somewhere, but who cares? All current offerings, including the iPhones, The Pixels, and probably Samsungs and Huaweis are good enough (better than most compact cameras) and already expensive enough.
I hope the pixel 3 retains the single lens offering, but I doubt that even google will be able to hold back the tide, especially once the mighty Apple start marketing the "If you haven't done three properly like we have, then you're out of luck" line...
Unless intelligent animation is sent to augment actual captures, then a larger sensor is always going to beat a phone. Photographers know this, but it's also easy to understand that photographers side-stepping the marketing aren't necessarily the target market.
Why do they market like this? Because that kind of marketing to the masses "just works".
