The evolution of phones

[wolflink@sh.itjust.works]

Most actual photographic cameras have some optics inside that can physically move to change the zoom level, something smartphones don’t have space for.

[grue@lemmy.world]

In addition to having different lenses, as others have mentioned, having multiple sensors enables a bunch of neat computational photography techniques.

[leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl]

I guess the question now is why does an ultra slim camera have a phone?

[gofsckyourself@lemmy.world]

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[bluewing@lemm.ee]

I have no idea either. The camera on any smart phone I've ever had is a wasted feature. I would rather have a faster processor or more memory or better battery. So I always try to buy the phone with the worst camera to save money.

[thebat@lemmy.world]

Just a moment...

(www.dpreview.com)

[rubanski@lemm.ee]

[groet@infosec.pub]

Smartphone cameras are (bad and) very limited. Their sensor is very small and their lenses have to be flat, very small in diameter and cant have moving parts (maybe the aperture moves not sure). All this means they capture very little light on a ultra dense sensor (dense sensors have bleed where one pixel is influenced by the interference of the photons hitting the pixel next to it).

So they cheat. Wherever they can. They often take multiple pictures at the same time using multiple cameras and overlay them digitally (black/white and color). And of course they need different cameras with different lenses because they can't have a zoom (moving parts). They also heavily edit the pictures without ever telling the user.

Often a smartfone image will look better than an unedited image taken by a 5000$+ camera. At least until you zoom in and look at the colors

[kusimulkku@lemm.ee]

And like modern reproductions of cassette players, I would expect this to be way shittier than the originals

[viking_hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

its the oneplus 12

So the 13?

[viking_hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I see you got the biblically accurate camera

[viking_hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Sounds like you need the Quintippio shaver!

[adrianthefrog@lemmy.world]

No, the 13 doesn't have that shaded area to the left of the camera bump

[kusivittula@sopuli.xyz]

I've been dreaming of that for like 10 years but nah, we only get many shitty sensors instead.

[curiousaur@reddthat.com]

Jokes aside, camera arrays are actually an excellent way to improve image capture while maintaining a small form factor. There's a reason many bugs have many eyes. It's more reliant of software to resolve the image, but it allows more information to come in without increasing the lens size.

[earphone843@sh.itjust.works]

That's because telephoto zoom is possible on photographic cameras.

[randelung@lemmy.world]

Phone herpes.

[hupf@feddit.org]

The joke was 1+12=13.

[takumidesh@lemmy.world]

Well real (dslr/mirror less) cameras have interchangeable lenses and most photographers have several.

I would say most cameras have more than one lens, only cheap cameras have one lens usually, like disposable, and point and clicks.

The multiple phone lenses are doing the exact same thing professional lenses are doing. Instead of using a single general purpose lens, they use more specific lenses based on the type of photo you are taking, like wide angle, telephoto, etc.

[hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Just cover the whole phone in cameras. Or maybe if instead of adding more cameras, you could just put one really big camera on the phone.

In fact, get rid of all the other features so that there's just a teeny tiny screen to see what your photo looks like and a button to take a photo, leaving more space either for one giant camera or tens of small cameras.