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Re:Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Mac... by twic on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @10:38AM (#31015179)
Numerical aperture alone does not tell you anything about the amount of light gathered. The product of aperture and sensor size does. Phone cameras still have much smaller sensors than DSLRs.

Your advice to learn more about photography certainly seems good.

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Re:Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Mac... by twic on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @11:13AM (#31015639)
The Hubble Space Telescope has an aperture of a pathetic f/24 [1]. I guess they should just fire an iPhone up there instead, huh.

[1] §5.2.2 in https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/hubble/a_pdf/news/SM2-Medi...

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