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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I believe the extra cameras are fixed optical zoom. The physical limitations of the phones dimensions means you can’t have 1x-10x zoom, because the lens would need to move forward and backward like on a real camera lens. So you’ve got a 1x, 3x, 10x, fish-eye, etc.

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  • scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My suspicion is that the main purpose behind the multiple rear cameras is mostly to more easily create depth mapping and improved accuracy location metadata.

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    • BenadrylChunderHatch@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As someone with a 3+1 camera phone who likes taking photos, it’s a huge improvement over a single lens. I wouldn’t buy a single lens phone again.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i mean, size constraints, sure. But camera bumps ONLY get bigger, and more unreasonable. Remember the iphone 6? little itty bitty nub. That’s not the case anymore.

    apple? (Idk, i dont care tbh) recently unveiled the incredible technology known as “two mirrors” in order to abuse the dimensions of an iphone to get a longer focal length.

    Even then, surely you could just put a bigger, higher resolution sensor on it, and then use digital zooming instead. That way it at least pretends to have features. Even then why bother adding more features, it’s a phone, all it’s going to do is be a nuisance at family gatherings. Because for some reason people HAVE to take pictures of everything.

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    • wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the laws of optics starts to conflict with this

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        maybe? I still feel like there just has to be a better solution than “hey lets just add more camera”

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    • spader312@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Smaller sensors pick up less and less light, forcing to bump iso. Limiting low light photography or dealing with very grainy low contrast images

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        which would be why i would argue to just min max on the one camera. Overall a better camera, maybe not as versatile, but meh.

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    • gayhitler420@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Digital zooming fucking sucks though and is only as good as the quality of the optics/the sensor resolution. At that point you might as well go schmitt cassegrain instead, especially when you’re taking the top shelf binned sensors anyway.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    now I had to keep up with a bag that held all my attachments.

    That seems to be what they want. Or, where do you keep your USBc<->3.5mm conversion dongle if not in the bag with your headphones, lens clip, etc – in your kitchen drawer.

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• uis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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  • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hold my beer…

    Image of the Light L16, an Android device with 16 camera lenses on its back

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    • uis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good beer

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