Emanuel Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 Impressive where we've arrived for instantaneous photography: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted December 30, 2024 Administrators Share Posted December 30, 2024 Is this the same camera modules including the very impressive mid-tele lens as the X100 Ultra? A lot of very good stuff is happening, but a lot of it is China only at the moment too. That's because Samsung and Apple have the Western market dominated in a duopoly and both lag behind the Chinese manufacturers when it comes to the cameras. sanveer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ND64 Posted December 30, 2024 Share Posted December 30, 2024 That phone camera is cool, but image quality comparison on compressed-to-oblivion platform like YouTube, with 4k maximum resolution, which is only 8MP, and even a crop on that resolution for the sample images, is anything but legit comparison. BTW, while I love to have 5x optical zoom on my phone, I'm not sure it stays in the market for long time due to complexities it introduces to the whole smartphone manufacturing which has already became too complicated. For example my Chinese smartphone has a motor driven selfie camera. It was the best thing happened by the industry in my opinion. The camera unit is inside the phone when its not used, which is a big plus if you care about privacy (and you want to know when exactly the camera is on. No hacker can see you when the sensor is physically blocked, and you'll notice when an app requests a visual feed), and as a bonus your screen will always be hole/island free. But Chinese abandoned it after one or two generations, and made the upgrade a massive pain for me, since there is that stupid hole on the screen on every new smartphone. Its very hard to come back to that ugliness. They said its a mechanical thing and a point of failure, but mine never failed, even after exactly 5 years of heavy use. Thats Toyota level of reliability in the smartphone world. So my advice is if you see a cool feature, grab the phone and keep it. This market has a giant backyard of abandoned good ideas. The moment they find a cheaper solution to give you a 5x zoom, even with crappier results, they'll ditch the expensive optics. Even if we're talking about $11.5 a unit expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatstoomuchjam Posted December 30, 2024 Share Posted December 30, 2024 1 hour ago, ND64 said: That phone camera is cool, but image quality comparison on compressed-to-oblivion platform like YouTube, with 4k maximum resolution, which is only 8MP, and even a crop on that resolution for the sample images, is anything but legit comparison. As a counterpoint, if the goal is to deliver content for a streaming platform like YouTube, then such an image quality comparison is fully legit! 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlfan Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago is high tax on chinese high tech products good or bad? i think in the short term it is good, protecting local high-tech industries. in the long run, not sure about the benefits. maybe the states will come up with something totally new, revolutionize the society, thus lead the world in a clear-cut edge. maybe not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatstoomuchjam Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago 35 minutes ago, zlfan said: is high tax on chinese high tech products good or bad? Mostly bad. Tariffs should be wielded like a surgical scalpel, not a bazooka. The latter leads to widespread inflation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted 14 hours ago Administrators Share Posted 14 hours ago He wants a crash to happen to benefit his rich pals. He won't think twice about upending the economy on a global scale. Get your nice smartphones now before the next round of inflation hits! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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