Other Photographers, what do you think of the new 24mm focal length? (ff eqv)

[skidu]

It seems each year with the sensor size increase the standard lens focal length gets wider to compensate.

iPhone 6 was 31mm
iPhone 7-10 was 28mm
iPhone 11-13 was 26mm

Now we're at 24mm, which for a standard everyday lens is just too wide imo. Great for landscape etc but your beloved food shots and cat pictures are just going to look even more distorted now.

I almost wish you could punch in your own fov into the 48mp sensor and map something around 35mm as a default.

Thoughts?

 

[bobdobalina]

24 is too wide for a "standard" camera lens. The new 2x feature is just digital zoom. If you want to shoot at 50mm you lose most of the benefits of the new camera.

The real problem is the gap in image quality and resolution between focal lengths. If the "telephoto" camera was 50mm that would work well with a 24mm "standard". The could just call them wide and normal at that point.

 

[skidu]

24 is too wide for a "standard" camera lens. The new 2x feature is just digital zoom. If you want to shoot at 50mm you lose most of the benefits of the new camera.

The real problem is the gap in image quality and resolution between focal lengths. If the "telephoto" camera was 50mm that would work well with a 24mm "standard". Just call them wide and normal at that point.

I was thinking the same thing, it’ll be interesting to see real world examples of the 4x downsampled images from the main lens vs 12mp crop without all the additional processing. Technically it’ll be sampling from the sharpest part of the lens so the edges should look quite good, wish they realeased some full size sample images on the site like they used to.