• r0bman99@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    When will people stop using stupid zoom designations for focal lengths? There’s no such thing as „5x zoom” for a prime lens ffs

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      1 year ago

      I like shooting with the 4.2 mm f/1.6 lens of my iPhone 12 mini. But I find less use for the 1.54 mm f/2.4 lens.

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    1 year ago

    Don’t love that choice. 3x zoom for me and probably a lot of people hits almost the perfect portrait focal length—77mm ff eq. This is as close as any phone gets to 85mm, a very popular choice for portraits. The 0.5x, 1x, 5x combo on the 15PM makes ~2.5-4.9x pictures look awful. It’s the reason I chose a 15 pro over the max.

    Hopefully by the time I’m ready to upgrade again they figure out that a gaping hole from a wide shot to a tight telephoto is pointless for anyone who isn’t just pointing at far away things going ooooh aaaaah zoooooom. Samsung fixes it by having a 3x and 10x.

    And I also hope they fix the shitty minimum focus distance on the main camera. You have to be way too far from an object to require a switch to the 0.5x…quality really suffers unless you’re practically touching the thing you’re photographing. It’s the biggest letdown compared to my old S22+.

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      1 year ago

      is pointless for anyone who isn’t just pointing at far away things going ooooh aaaaah zoooooom.

      That’s like most of the iPhone’s audience. More X’es means more better

  • Resident-Variation21@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I honestly don’t want 5x. I very very rarely shoot further than 3x… and a 5x zoom lense means that 3x zoom picture is going to worse quality.

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    1 year ago

    I’m just hoping for a sensor upgrade. I like using the 3x, but it has noticeably less detail than the main camera.

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    1 year ago

    Apple keeps adding stuff to camera while not fixing the color correction. This is insane lol

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    1 year ago

    My girlfriend has the Samsung Galaxy 23 Ultra, I have the iPhone 15 Pro, & it is absolutely bananas how much better her camera is, especially for night photography. She can take a full-frame photo of the moon & it’s clean, with detail. When I try, it looks like it could be a light bulb or a golf ball.

    Apple has some work to do.

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      1 year ago

      You are getting downvoted because the Samsung is not taking a picture of a moon. It’s taking the picture of a white circle that vaguely resembles the moon and then uses AI algorithms to recreate the moon in the shot. It’s not exactly replacing the moon with a high res image off the internet, but it’s only a few steps away from that.

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      1 year ago

      You are getting downvoted because the Samsung is not taking a picture of a moon. It’s taking the picture of a white circle that vaguely resembles the moon and then uses AI algorithms to recreate the moon in the shot. It’s not exactly replacing the moon with a high res image off the internet, but it’s only a few steps away from that.

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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure Samsung ran into some controversy for using AI to fake moon pictures. They essentially see that you are trying to take a picture of the moon and just overlay a moon texture on top of the image.

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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure Samsung ran into some controversy for using AI to fake moon pictures. They essentially see that you are trying to take a picture of the moon and just overlay a moon texture on top of the image.