Smaller sensors pick up less and less light, forcing to bump iso. Limiting low light photography or dealing with very grainy low contrast images
Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months agoi 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.
spader312@lemmy.world 5 months ago
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 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.
spader312@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think it’s a size constraint. Bigger sensors also require larger lenses. In regular DSLR world a micro four thirds sensor, the sensor size is half the size of a traditional full frame sensor. The lenses are also half the size of a fullframe camera’s lenses and require far less glass and weight.
We can fit 3 smaller sensors with three smaller lenses in a smartphone. Trying to make any of those sensors bigger will require more space than a phone can provide.
I’m no expert just a hobbyist take my word with a grain of salt lol
gayhitler420@lemm.ee 5 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.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think the laws of optics starts to conflict with this
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
maybe? I still feel like there just has to be a better solution than “hey lets just add more camera”
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If they could save money by doing everything with one camera and lens, don’t you think they would?
People want better pictures. The only solution engineers could figure out was to put more camera modules. Why do you care how it’s done? One bump or ten, the phone is already thicker.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
phone companies have been known to make stupid decisions before. Apple uses glass on the back of their phones, even though it breaks incredibly easy. Up until more recent models the back glass was incredibly aggressively bonded to the back chassis of the phone, making it basically impossible to replace.
If i had to guess, it’s the cheapest way, to get “more” features and “quality” out of a phone. Like a gimmick. I’m almost certain it’s possible to just put in a better camera sensor, they’ve been doing that on every model for decades. Chances are they just took the easy route, since it adds a unique feature, that has never been seen before, and makes it easily marketable. And besides, for people like me who barely use the camera, paying for upwards of 5 cameras, when i only use 2. More than likely 1, is completely useless to me. I’d be more inclined to pay for a single better camera, than multiple cameras i probably wont use.