Because it’s for editing. You film in 8k, and this allows you to crop in and still get 4K videos. Like edit to zoom in to someone’s face then switch focus with animations.
Maybe I read it wrong- having any camera can theoretically make you a photographer but, it's sad to hear people say they're a photographer and their main camera is a phone. Very sad. Like hearing someone say "I'm a driver and my car is Dacia Duster"
Not really. In the end, art is art. And totally subjective. As a photographer, the iPhone has replaced my dedicated camera in most of my photography & video work except for wildlife photography where I need a huge quality telephoto lens. I have fully embraced the iPhone with all it’s limitations. I think it is the ultimate street photography camera and i have a feeling that if Henri Cartier-Bresson were alive today, he’d use one. But who knows. For me, I love how inconspicuous it is. People don’t give a phone a second look because EVERYONE on the street has one. Even a rangefinder will scream camera. To me, photography has always been less about the pixel peeping & more about the concept. The mood a photograph creates & the emotional reactions it causes the viewer to feel. I know some photogs look down on “computational” photography. But many of them also looked down on digital photography when DSLRs first started replacing film cameras. I think it’s easy to knock iphoneography or say it’s just for taking snaps of your baby. To me that is limited thinking. Yes, it can be that, cause it’s a camera that is always in your pocket. But the iphone, even with it’s limitations has limitless possibilities. I fully embrace it. Art is art, and I’m diving into the bottomless creativity of the iPhone as my main camera. And that’s not a diss on dedicated cameras. It’s all good. You do you. ??
The problem with your logic, is that it makes complete sense, where others aren’t taking into account that it would cost Apple to re-tool a chassis to be thicker, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will translate to more battery life, and even if it did, that would also increase the weight of the phone by making a larger battery or implement a secondary battery.
pixel binning - 4 pixels worth of information condensed down into one for an output of 12MP, lossless digital zoom for 12MP photos, 16/20/48MP photo modes (for scenes with lots of fine detail).
edit/crop on what? iPhone? 5k Mac monitor? 6k Mac monitor? it's a niche, even most iPhone Pro users don't edit videos ...
should really focus on improving the ultra wide angle camera, as I find it borderline unusable unless there's loads of light.
Absolutely agree with you plus as an iPad Pro owner thinks it’s insane using 2 different cables
Highly doubt the target iPhone demo would ever go for a basic "no camera"? They turned their nose up to unapologetically plastic iphones, I doubt very much a "basic" no bump camera would even sell even in poorer under developed markets. An amazing camera sells the iPhone.
