Pixel shift does not take multiple images at once. It takes a series of images in rapid succession, moving the sensor slightly between each image.
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Kuo: iPhone 14 Pro to Feature 48-Megapixel Camera, Periscope Lens Coming 2023
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Maybe I'm in the minority, but I've stopped caring about the cameras a while ago. By all means keep pushing quality forward, but it all seems to be about cameras these days and it's getting boring.
I know it's not an either/or, but I wish Apple would shift more attention back to software. I struggle to remember the last really cool and useful new iOS feature. It's getting stale in an admittedly high level, but still.
I know it's not an either/or, but I wish Apple would shift more attention back to software. I struggle to remember the last really cool and useful new iOS feature. It's getting stale in an admittedly high level, but still.
Because Apple figured it out that, statistically, people with small pockets also have small wallets.
I'm running both. The X stays attached to my TV mostly, to play media content. Every time I pick it up I think how much I prefer it to my 12! I am almost tempted to switch them over.
Why is the periscope zoom coming so many years after everybody else has done it? It’ll be 4 years after Huawei did it. That’s eons in years.
The people that don’t want garbage battery life lol, which the first mini had.
I had the Xr, 11 Pro Max and then the 12 pro Max. I don’t see any reason to upgrade until there is a legitimately better zoom. I like the edges of the 12, otherwise I could have just stayed with the Xr to be honest. Every upgrade since then has been pretty minuscule unless you take a lot of video, which I don’t.
Seems like big camera improvements are coming. Good news!
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't what you describe exactly what a periscope lens is?
like what? Periscope zoom? How many Xiaomi and Samsung phones actually have periscope zoom? Very few. Meaning that the tech itself is relatively new, expensive, and/or very low yield.
Just like LTPO variable refresh rate OLED. Apple basically waited until Samsung can finalize it and produce it in volume before they adopted it. Periscope zoom lens tech is still evolving, with upcoming techniques like liquid lens.
There’s this thing called physics. Large 1” sensor is actually not easily feasible in a thin form factor of a smartphone, unless you are fine with a more extreme camera bump. You know that new Sony phone that boasted a 1” sensor? It couldn’t even utilize the whole sensor area.
ML will surpass the need of larger sensors in smartphones. We can look at the advancement Google has done with their ML.
No, a periscope would pop out of the top of the phone housing temporarily, like on a submarine.
They will design it like a fold-out cup holder from the center of the dash like an old VW.
They say it’s a supply issue and getting their rights to use it but apple’s way is always after everybody else.
That's not true. Yields are definitely not low.
Xiaomi and Samsung have periscope cameras only on their top tier flagships because it's a differentiator, a high end feature reserved for their best. Almost every major Android OEM has implemented pericope cameras together with Sony, Motorola, Google etc. At this point it's a very proven and mature tech.
Samsung finalized it when they launched the Galaxy Note 20 Pro with an LTPO display.
Periscope cameras are mature as a tech, the fact that's still evolving is not a valid excuse for not implementing it.
"Liquid lens" is not an essential add-on for a periscope camera imolementation not to mention it's not necessary meant for periscope cameras.
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You’re thinking of CCD sensors where pixel binning was commonly used. Over sampling would be used in this case since binning yields bad results and you still wouldn’t need a 48MP sensor.
It’s called super sampling not binning.
Pixel binning was useful for CCD sensors, it’s hardly ever used on high end CMOS systems due to poor RN and inferior results. Oversampling would be used on their sensors for suppressing moiré and reducing noise.
I can still see Apple going with a <=24MP sensor over a 48MP sensor.
Modern smartphones added advance algorithm and quad bay filter.
https://www.androidauthority.com/what-is-pixel-binning-966179/
It’s simple math really, using quad bay filter, 48MP will output 12MP. Some smartphones even use 108MP and Nona binning.
In terms of Apple, they could’ve used the tech but still advertise 12MP for photos. The advantage of the high res sensor is to get 8k video capture (which is around 33MP).
I THINK maybe you're joking, but not sure. Anyway, no, that's not what a periscope lens is.
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I THINK maybe you're joking, but not sure. Anyway, no, that's not what a periscope lens is.
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Not joking, because that’s NOT what a periscope is.
So slow to adopt a periscope zoom. It should have been in the 14. Iphone zoom is barely worth it.