Will it prevent morons from using portrait orientation for content that CLEARLY would look better in landscape orientation?
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The iPhone 18 Pro's Rumored Camera Upgrade, Explained
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H3LL5P4WN
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If people can get good images out of micro 4/3, who’s to say it can’t be done with some computational photography backing up the hardware?
johnsawyercjs
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There isn't enough room available in current smartphone camera modules, with the other parts they contain, to add a movable ND filter and the mechanisms to move it, though modules could be made a little bigger to accommodate one, but then the camera plateau would be somewhat thicker.
The experimental OnePlus Concept One from 2020, which was a prototype never commercially released (but demonstrated to some people at CES), contained a layer of electrochromic glass over the camera array, so that when a voltage was applied to this material, it altered its opacity. In the camera’s Pro Mode, the phone could apply a voltage to turn the glass into a solid-state 3-stop ND filter. OnePlus didn't move forward with it, even though they said it didn't add much more expense or thickness, though it might have added a bit of its own slight color cast, and only 3 stops wasn't as much as OnePlus might have wanted to implement (achieving more stops was a greater challenge).
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johnsawyercjs
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Boston Robotics has developed a fix for that. It's a robot dog that picks up the user and rotates them 90 degrees.