A new sensor technology would be killer. This is another Instagram camera like any other 8-13MP tiny sensor camera.
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A new sensor technology would be killer. This is another Instagram camera like any other 8-13MP tiny sensor camera.
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Why "is it definitely beyond"?
How would they do that on such a small sensor without crapping out the picture? Increasing the sensor size and keeping it the same quality without making the focusing appartus longer I believe is impossible physically right now. They could possibly slightly increase it, say 10MP-11MP, but doubling is improbable in that small package.
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In other reviews of the 5s, it was clearly the winner in NOT overexposing pictures, compared to just about all other cameras in existence previously. If this one does so much better, then its a massive improvement on an already good smartphone camera.
There are seemingly a lot of other improvement in picture quality in there. Will have to test to be sure where they come from.
Got a Canon G16 and a few a Canon T5i with good lenses. Those shots ARE impressive and exciting for such a small sensor camera.
Seriously, got 25 years of photography behind me and I'm sure you must be trolling with such an affirmation.
For a small sensor camera in a smartphone, this is a very good performance.
Focusing fast in low light is very hard for any camera and most smart phones are HORRIBLE with terrible results when they're even able to do anything at all..
I have a 2008 Panasonic LX3, 10MP. Pretty small, 6year technology. This camera still outperforms iPhone by far.
Other "fair" competitors: Lumia 1020, Nokia 808 Pureview, Nokia N8, to not say other models which performs at least the same, like Galaxy Note 3, S4 and S5. No, not impressive, at least if you prefer still pictures over videos.
I'm not saying that the other phones are way better, although a Nokia N8 (2010, crappy Symbian) still produces better still pictures than the latest iPhone or Galaxy S5. I'm just saying that I'd expect a phone capable of outperforming a 4yr old Nokia camera.
Of course a decent compact camera will do better. Why even mention it. The optics will be 10 times better.
My G16 crushes any smart phone camera by a mile, not to mention the T5i with $1000 glass which demolishes your camera (but not all cameras, see even there, its not top class).
I'm pretty atuned to picture quality since I've got a high quality SLR since the late 1980s. I had actually better equipment in the 1990s (when I used film).
The 1020 has excellent PQ but has terribly slow focusing and is slow as a god damn dog. Everyone that's used it says the same. The 808 is faster, but still quite slow. Speed to shoot and speed to focus is one of the top specs in DSRL cameras since past a certain point, they're all getting good picture in decent lighting.
The S5 or Note 3 didn't perform the same except in normal light as reviewed on real photo sites, not trash Android sites.
Increasing the sensor size and keeping the picture quality can only be done by increasing the depth of the camera. That's what the Nokia camera did. Those phone are much wider than the current Iphone.
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I think Apple is doing it right. Higher megapixel counts on such a small sensor would be absolutely horrible, especially in low light. I'd much rather Apple do what they are doing. Improving other aspects of the camera.
The only sites I trust when reviewing phones are DPReview Connect and GSMArena. GSMArena has a standard procedure almost as good as DPReview, so it's pretty good for comparing phones.
I also have a 2005 6MP DSLR, a few film SLRs, a Nikon Coolscan V film scanner and a bunch of manual and AF lenses. I develop B&W at home. I don't have the latest tech, but I have some critical sense, I guess. I'm not an Android fanboy.
Traditionally, iPhones and Galaxies aren't impressive cameras. Actually only Nokia made impressive cameraphones until now. A good camera capable of replacing a premium compact camera (like N8 and N808 did in the past) would make me move to the iOS world. Unfortunately it won't be this time.
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Just saying that the photographer did it well and the location is exotic which contributes to the "wow factor". An old Nokia N8 could do probably best in still picture IQ.
The grass up front and the hills in the back are blurred. It is a tilt shift blur filter applied in photoshop. Unless the phone is laying in the grass you will not get blur on the foreground. I'm not knocking the camera I'm just stating facts that you can't get low depth of field from a cell phone camera, the sensor is just too small as is the "glass" if you can call it that. I love the camera on my 5s but I know it will never match my real gear.
There will be shots tomorrow, so why would you think he's faking anything? Its not like he's going to be able to hide from the truth the next day
. He's obviously not a reviewer, photography sites will get the phone and review it soon enough.
Took this on my 5s last week, bit dark in the middle but overall not a bad panorama shot.
Well DPReview was saying 5s was better than the S5 and Note 3 cameras in difficult shooting situations. Like I said. the Nokia camera were insanely slow to do anything and that is a massive spec in today's DSLR.
Picture quality in slow setups situation is not the usual use case for a smart phone camera. You'd want a DSLR or a high end compact for that rather than a smart phone. Even Nokia weren't really up to snuff for their best use case,. But, if you needed to take the Nokia's out in a bar to shoot your friends, or shoot a child doing crazy stuff, well it was just too slow. I knew people with those cameras and they had regrets I'll tell you. Many shots were out of focus or blurry.
See that reflective blob around the sun? If it were high end glass, it would have a starbust effect with 7 or more streaks. Also note the distortion in the upper left corner. That would not be there with high end glass. Finally, if this were shot with high end glass, a tiny aperture would have been used to bring as much as possible into focus. Close examination of the photo reveals that the distant hill dead center is out of focus as a result of the iPhone's humongous f/2.2 aperture, which only could focus effectively at the photo's mid-distance range.
I'm only a beginner and I could spot all the tells that this was from a point and shoot camera.
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Nope, you are a Nokia/Symbian fanboy
Yes, I miss Nokia-Symbian. Actually it was a good OS, although it was abandoned by Elop. I'm always expecting something as good as the Nokia 808 camera.
The iPhone 6+'s OIS is a gyroscopic physical solution to camera shake.
The iPhone 6 has a software solution.
There is a significant difference between the two systems
when capturing low light pics...
How many times have you taken a low light pic
and it looks great on the iPhone screen,
but then you get it up on your laptop and it's soft or distorted?
OIS is a big help for these low light shots!
Reduces the shake of a hand held shot so you can shoot in much darker situation without blur (since in those situation the camera needs to increase the exposure time, which normall means your hand movements would show).
Also reduces the shake in situations where you youself are moving even in normal light like putting the camera on a bike to take video or taking a shot while moving (say to follow a quick action).
Its ability to stabilize video vastly improves video (though sometimes you can stabilize your video in post processing after the fact even without OIS (but its better to do it at the source)).
Yes, I agree in some sense. For most casual users, focusing fast (and focusing without pre-focusing) is more important than IQ. I'm waiting for Panasonic CM1. It will probably be the best choice to me. It's big for a smartphone, but smaller than a premium compact camera.