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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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