Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?

Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? by astrange on Monday May 10, 2021 @01:30PM (#27108532)

Camera phones have significantly better processing than newer full frame cameras at this point; obviously they can't take the same pictures, but full frame cameras can't do HDR, noise stacking, night mode etc very well. You can do it by hand by shooting raws and editing them together but it's inconvenient. The autofocus is also more advanced in iPhones with lidar.

I assume part of this is that the camera companies are Japanese and refuse to pay any engineers more than $20k a year.

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Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? by jeffbee on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:59PM (#27110201)

My Olympus does in-body HDR, noise reduction with stacking, low-light handheld with sensor stabilization, and more. It's not "full-frame" but full-frame is a meaningless condescension from the 35mm crowd.

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Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? by astrange on Thursday May 13, 2021 @11:56PM (#27150521)

Full frame sensors are quite useful indoors because you can shoot 50mm-e without having to be twice as far away.

For real pretension you have to get a Leica.

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Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? by astrange on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:07AM (#27152302)

Besides that, the main problem with the processing in those cameras is they don't do it to RAW, only to 8-bit JPG, so nothing for HDR displays. iPhone can do fused RAW, 10-bit HEIC, and takes HDR photos and has an HDR display to show them.

It looks like they still don't really plan to add it: https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/9195902169/interview-son...

but at least if they had better bracketing options we could do it ourselves.

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