Re:With the iPhone 7, Apple Changed the Camera Industry
by sbuk on Saturday September 10, 2016 @02:47AM
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No one said they did. The suggestion is that the iPhone 4 was a watershed in cameras on smartphones. For a while the iPhone was considered the benchmark, and still is in many ways. As ever, the bigger number of pixels that other devices have does not necessarily mean better cameras. Optics play a huge role. Other mobile devices have caught up and some have exceeded the quality of the iPhones camera, but that doesn't change the fact that the iPhone 4 was an important milestone for smartphone photography.
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Re:With the iPhone 7, Apple Changed the Camera Industry
by dingaling on Saturday September 10, 2016 @01:00PM
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> The suggestion is that the iPhone 4 was a watershed in cameras on smartphones
Whilst it was the first iPhone to use a contemporaneous sensor, rather than cost-saving with previous-gen, it was still only a 5MP OmniVision OV5642 at the same time as Sony was installing 8MP sensors of a similar backlit configuration.
Ironically Apple switched to using Sony's Exmor sensors for later models.