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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

we might as well call every lossy compression format ever useless

Lossy compression is a trade off between loss of quality and file size. You can objectively test whether one file is smaller than another at the same file size or whether one is smaller than the other at the same quality.

im sure they have documentation on automatic camera switching,

You can read technical websites to learn how it works just like you can read about multi threading or other hardware features.

But to the end user there is there is no feature to learn. It is the same pinch to zoom whether you have one camera or three. My technologically illiterate mother in law uses her iPhone to take pictures and has no idea her phone has more than one camera. Just like she has no idea her phone has more than one CPU.

you provided an example as to why generic hardware would be beneficial

I didn’t change to the context to PC’s or generic.

"Ranting about cameras you don’t use is like ranting about CPU cores you don’t use. I don’t game on my phone, where’s my phone without a GPU??? "

Do I have to preface every single sentence with “on a phone”? Am I now allowed to misinterpret every sentence that doesn’t contain the phrase “on a phone” as meaning you are talking about cars?

You can do a 2x digital zoom and still retain reasonable quality

15 years ago 100 million people a year bought digital cameras to get 3x-5x optical zoom (the typical range of consumer digital cameras). There is a huge difference with optical zoom and you still have digital zoom to get even more. The wide lens is needed when you can’t frame everything in the shot and can’t physically move farther back. Again consumer points and shoot digital cameras had that feature because they had the physical space to use a wide lens on a expanding mount to give the range. Now phone can match consumer digital cameras from 15 years ago but have to do it with a separate lens because of size constraints.

Why a wide lens? You want the Christmas dinner table shot of everyone and can’t move farther back in the room. You want the shot of the entire orchestra but can’t get out of your seat, walk 5 rows back and block the audience. People bought cameras with a wide lens and good zoom before smartphones.

You edit video. What made the video ? A camera without zoom or interchangeable lens? Of course not.

I feel like since the invention of phone cameras, particularly good ones, people have just been photographing EVERYTHING,

I already quoted with sources the 100 million cameras a year every year. Before that it was analog cameras. People have been taking garbage photos for as long as there have been consumer cameras. The boring carousel slide show of vacations was a staple comedy joke 40 years ago. At least now the photos aren’t also blurry.

If you REALLY insist on having more than 2, do a fish eye

Well there you go, 3 camera modules just like my Pixel ( not including the front). It can do it with only 3 because of the periscope lens (there was a consumer compact digital camera that did the same trick 15 years ago). But the periscope lens requires more physical space. On a smaller phone manufacturers use more lenses to cover the same zoom ranges. If phones could be as large as a camera with a long lens sticking out the back, all phones would need only one lens just like cameras from 15 years ago.

Phone manufacturers add lenses to equal the features of compact digital cameras from 15 years ago but in the form factor of a phone. People loved their digital cameras. Now phones can replace them.

Again, the switching between cameras isn’t something the user is aware of. It is completely seamless with not even an option on the UI to know that it is happening.

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