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Re:A Billion Pixels a Second: Rare Look Inside Apple's iPhon... by gazchop on Saturday January 04, 2025 @05:41AM (#42593916)
I don't disagree with most of this. The thoughts around it only come from that one day you will inevitably have where you take a really good photo on your phone. Then you get home and realise that it's actually trash.

This was my one https://imgur.com/a/rPCJwcR (thanks Google!)

Lots of people have this day and decide they'll keep that phone a couple more years and buy a camera with the upgrade cycle money. I think when I am travelling around 25% of people have mirrorless or DLSRs now compared to 5% a couple of years ago. A 10+ year old Nikon D3100 with kit lens is still a better camera then a 2024 iPhone Pro and doesn't cost a lot of money.

Across Europe at least people have a lot of distrust of their phones as well. I suspect some of that is driving adoption. I even see film cameras regularly now as well (!).

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Re:A Billion Pixels a Second: Rare Look Inside Apple's iPhon... by freehorse on Saturday January 04, 2025 @09:29AM (#42594839)
> This was my one https://imgur.com/a/rPCJwcR (thanks Google!)

Wow this is really bad. Was it zoomed? If this is the case, it is interesting that it is still 4k resolution and companies prioritize "4k" even with horrible processing or whatever artifacts are these, rather than reducing resolution eg when zooming. Similar with low light, where binning the pixels could increase light sensitivity.

If it is not zoomed in, it is much worse.

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Re:A Billion Pixels a Second: Rare Look Inside Apple's iPhon... by gazchop on Saturday January 04, 2025 @09:43AM (#42594946)
It's 2:1 zoom on a 64MP main camera on a Google Pixel 7A. It absolutely destroyed it. Wasn't low light either.
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Re:A Billion Pixels a Second: Rare Look Inside Apple's iPhon... by foldr on Saturday January 04, 2025 @02:42PM (#42597127)
If that's really only 2x zoom then I don't know how you can possibly have gotten a result that bad. I don't have a Pixel 7A, but it's certainly not representative of what 2x zoom looks like in daylight on a recent iPhone Pro. (My Pixel 3a used to do a better job of 2x zoom than that, FWIW.)
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Re:A Billion Pixels a Second: Rare Look Inside Apple's iPhon... by gazchop on Saturday January 04, 2025 @06:42PM (#42598508)
Yeah I have no idea what the hell it was doing either. Had similar problems on a few other shots inconsistently. I did wonder if it was some artifact of image stabilisation.

I have an iPhone 15 Pro now which is ok if you are careful but has lots of other wierdness instead.

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Re:A Billion Pixels a Second: Rare Look Inside Apple's iPhon... by kccqzy on Saturday January 04, 2025 @11:32AM (#42595720)
> Then you get home and realise that it's actually trash.

Most people take pictures on their phone and look at pictures on their phone only. They won't return home to realize the picture is trash because their viewing medium is only capable of displaying a little more than a million pixels.

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