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Re:A $10 Accessory Proves Smartphones Are Too Big by criddell on Sunday February 17, 2019 @07:32PM (#19187833)
All I really want is for the camera to keep improving. The rest of the phone is fine IMHO and has been for maybe three years now. A better camera is really the only thing that makes me want to upgrade.
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Re:A $10 Accessory Proves Smartphones Are Too Big by spc476 on Sunday February 17, 2019 @08:31PM (#19188055)
The iPhone 8 was good enough for Steven Soderbergh to make a feature length movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzVAdUIBBSk
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Re:A $10 Accessory Proves Smartphones Are Too Big by zedgerman on Sunday February 17, 2019 @11:57PM (#19188734)
Dr Seuss wrote a book using only 50 words, which went on to sell millions[1]. A great artist can produce great work without being constrained by the medium. That does not mean the medium can/should not be improved further.

That said, depending on the majority use cases, the iPhone 8 camera is plenty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Eggs_and_Ham

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Re:A $10 Accessory Proves Smartphones Are Too Big by crtasm on Monday February 18, 2019 @12:41PM (#19192461)
With professional lighting. Vastly reduces the difference between a large sensor on a pro camera and the small ones in phones.
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Re:A $10 Accessory Proves Smartphones Are Too Big by criddell on Monday February 18, 2019 @09:14AM (#19190660)
I'm no Soderbergh. He could probably shoot an Oscar winning feature a ten year old Flip camera.

I get what you are saying though. I kind of wish Google or Apple would license their tech to one of the companies still building large-sensor cameras (Canon, Nikon, Fuji, etc...) to see what could be done with even more data.

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