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The Next Nokia Smartphone Will Feature Unique 5-Camera Setup

Sounds like the brute force hardware approach to Google's software AI. My guess is it'll be better but not significant.
 
I can only imagine how that meeting went...
Apple and Samsung all have dual cameras on their flagships
And what do we have on ours a single camera??
No Sir
Well upgrade ours, catch them!
Yes sir! Prepare engineering to add an extra camera.
No wait.. Dual cameras too slow
Dual Cameras too slow??
Yes... We’re going to have to go right to Ludicrous Cameras!
 
Interesting? Is that what you call it? Just when i thought the new Samsung phone with the O Hole cut that makes the phone look like it has two back panels, was ugly... Now comes this technological atrocity!
 
justperry said:
It does look pretty darn good, now remove the Nokia/Zeiss names and it's a winner.

I prefer an Icon instead of brand names on devices, for instance Blackberry, some brands/models
for instance LG on some of their TV sets have tiny logos, better than a huge Samsung on the
front of a TV.
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No one outside the states even knows what a blackberry is.
 
bobob said:
Despite the thread title, there is only one camera which happens to have five lenses.

Any old school SLR user will tell you that five lenses with varying focal lengths is about the minimum reasonable kit for a photographer facing various situations from action to portraits to landscapes.

Given the additional restriction of miniscule lens size on smartphone cameras, multiple lenses are an astute engineering design decision.
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Ploki said:
How would that work? A full frame sensor behind that 5-lens arrangement? Every lens has its own sensor and is essentially a separate camera entity.
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What a bargain!

You can buy the one Nokia smartphone and then resell each of the five "separate camera entities" separately.
 
bobob said:
What a bargain!

You can buy the one Nokia smartphone and then resell each of the five "separate camera entities" separately.
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oh yeah, these go for what, 5-10$ a piece?

But no seriously; this is not "5 lenses" with different focal lengths, its 5 lenses with 5 sensors with shared storage and brains. It's like a DSLR that would have a sensor built in behind the lens, so i still don't quite get your point
 
Ploki said:
oh yeah, these go for what, 5-10$ a piece?

But no seriously; this is not "5 lenses" with different focal lengths, its 5 lenses with 5 sensors with shared storage and brains. It's like a DSLR that would have a sensor built in behind the lens, so i still don't quite get your point
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My point is regarding the meaning of the word "camera".

The Nokia smartphone itself is the camera, not the individual lense/sensor units.

When you carry a smartphone in your pocket, you're only carrying the single camera no matter how many lenses it has.

I was joking about your use of the term "separate camera entities" because they are not individual cameras in any practical sense of the word.
 
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