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kamen@lemmy.world 9 months agoI might’ve used all of them at one point, but again I’d be fine with just one - after all it’s a smartphone, not a dedicated camera. Personally it annoys me that manufacturers have started shoving multiple cameras not just into high end models but also into midrange and even low end ones - whatever I pick, I end up paying for stuff I don’t necessarily use. I’d be happy to buy a high end device with just one camera with normal or wide-ish lens - but nobody is selling that.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Multiple camera modules is how a phone can take better photos than they could before. Why do you care about the technical details needed to achieve a better quality photo?
kamen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Multiple camera modules are what gives you a bit of versatility, but shoving in more and more modules is not what pushes technical progress. What annoys me is that this is part of what contributes to the ever increasing end user price. When was the last time you saw a new phone costing the same as the previous year’s model? Again, I’d be fine with a top-specced phone even if it only has one camera.
Side question: how do dedicated cameras improve each year? Hint: it’s not by putting more camera modules in.
solrize@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Phones are cheaper now, it seems to me, other than the flagships which are an exercise in pushing the frontier of what people are willing to pay.
kamen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not really. A mid range phone is now easily $400-500 or more; that used to be the price range for flagships not that long ago.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 9 months ago
How are better photos not pushing technical limits?
Shoving more cores in cpus barely helps either because most algorithms are single threaded. There’s nothing else that can be done because of technical limitations. But no one is angry their phone has 8 cores instead of 1.
I personally love the periscope camera in my Pixel. It gives me 5x optical range without having to carry a camera around. The wides angle lens is also great at Thanksgiving/ Christmas/ Birthday dinners when you want to get everyone in the photo. Pinch zoom out and everyone is in the photo.