Kind of moot anyway; 100x zoom is equivalent to a 2400mm lens (with no stabilization assist). If you can hand-aim that on target, you're an elite marksman.
Re:Pixel 10 Phones
by Workaccount2 on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:02PM
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I'm pretty sure that was just an accident, if you pinch all the ways out it goes seamlessly to the wide angle lens.
0.5x is 0.5x, not "what it actually looks like."
The deceptive part is using AI to creatively fill in gaps in the picture, and saying "recover and refine intricate details" when the details are actually hallucinated, making that blue car look like a drawing of a toy.
They zoom from 100x to 0.5x and present 0.5x as "what it actually looks like."
They're making 100x zoom appear twice as impressive by using ultra-wide (0.5x) as fake 'normal' vision.