Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market

Re:Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market by piva00 on Friday December 02, 2022 @07:10AM (#33829496)

I just felt it's such an outrageous claim that I really hadn't to show that cameras with much larger sensors and better optics would shoot better pictures than a smartphone.

For me it's the opposite, show how smartphones are better than the current crop of mirrorless APS-C as this is the extraordinary claim requiring evidence.

When I get some time I might shoot some comparison pictures, but if I don't: remember that I'm not here to serve your demands, I'm sorry.

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Re:Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market by michaelt on Friday December 02, 2022 @08:47AM (#33830340)

> I just felt it's such an outrageous claim

I have used an iPhone SE and a mirrorless M4/3 camera to photograph a sheet of paper containing barcodes of varying sizes (including some with bars less than 1 pixel wide). I then checked which barcodes were readable in the resulting image.

The light levels were the same, both cameras were positioned and zoomed so the target took up the entire image, and both cameras were supported on a tripod.

I expected the M4/3 camera would blow the iPhone out of the water with its much larger lens, bigger sensor, and higher price. But no, the iPhone's image had marginally more readable barcodes.

Modern smartphone camera performance is just crazy, for the sensor size.

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Re:Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market by FeistySkink on Friday December 02, 2022 @08:56AM (#33830430)

You didn't specify if the lens was up to the task in terms of sharpness on that MFT.

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