A new report corroborates the iPhone 14 Pro will have a 48MP camera
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PixelFan, 13 Jan 2022You do realize that a megapixel count isn't necessaril... moreIt counts, 2 are better than 1 they say
Your explanations were not accurate because of your subjectivity just like others critics with no ideas about the technology.
Huawei and others with 40-108mp has proven to the world that more pixels are better and Apple is now acknowledging that fact!!
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Anonymous, 13 Jan 2022Who said that Apple phones were the #1 in photography?everyone
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Rkm, 13 Jan 2022This will help, most likely. More data is always better (mo... moreYup and it's not just raw power of an A1x Bionic that makes this a good news for an Apple fan but also the Apple Neural Engine which is said to be one of the two best NPUs on the market alongside Tensor.
The photography potential is massive if Apple can get the algos right.
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PixelFan, 13 Jan 2022Maybe it's an unannounced sensor then. Don't kno... moreMost likely yes.
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PixelFan, 13 Jan 2022Pixel 6 Pro is a hit or miss right now. They need to tweak ... moreNice observations
Try any Huawei P/Mate series phones from 30 - 50 and experience the ultimate photography power house. I have the experience and shooting photos is miles away from others!!
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Anonymous, 13 Jan 2022I agree it is subjective.But, after using so many phones i ... moreiPhone's photos have a very consistent, distinct "look" that clicks with some people and doesn't with others.
You like the way iPhone processes the image and that's totally fine. I prefer more natural processing that doesn't smother details with sharpening and noise suppression filters, and that's exactly why I always (have to) shoot in ProRAW with my iPhone 13 Pro whenever I need to use its cameras - ProRAW files still have some processing going on, but at least there's less of it compared to JPEG and Apple didn't mess with colours or tone-mapping on it.
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- 13 Jan 2022
Welcome to 2019 Apple !! 🥂
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This will help, most likely. More data is always better (most of the time) and apple do have the hardware power to process the amount of data.
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- 13 Jan 2022
Yeah they're doing it to offer 8K video. Can't do that on 12MP.
Should've upgraded long ago though... but then again, It won't be an Apple product if it's not behind the competition.
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Anonymous, 13 Jan 2022The quality is mostly terrible. It's just clueless peo... moreobsolete 12 mp? pathetic
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Nick Tegrataker, 13 Jan 2022Apple has always been using custom Sony sensors to this date.Maybe it's an unannounced sensor then.
Don't know any tier-1 48 MP Sony sensors.
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Anonymous, 13 Jan 2022I agree it is subjective.But, after using so many phones i ... morePixel 6 Pro is a hit or miss right now. They need to tweak the camera algos to optimize it for the GN1. The HDR is way over the top.
Personally, the only camera smartphone that I like is the Sony Xperia Pro-I, it does nice natural shots. That being said it's pretty bad for dark environments.
Haven't tried the Leica phone yet so maybe that's better.
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Anonymous, 13 Jan 2022It is a welcome change. Apples photography software process... moreWho said that Apple phones were the #1 in photography?
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Anonymous, 13 Jan 2022Apple is always late. Others use 108MP long time ago. And q... moreYou do realize that a megapixel count isn't necessarily an indicator of a better image quality, right?
To put into perspective, the Samsung JN1 and Samsung GN1 are both 50 MP sensors but JN1 is poop whilst GN1 is used by some of the best camera smartphones on the market.
The sensor size, aperture, pixel size are all relevant.
Also, I am not sure what you mean by "Others use 108MP long time ago."; most tier-1 camera phones are using 50 MP sensors, the only good 108 MP camera phone is the S21 Ultra.
There do exist some not so great to garbage quality phones that use 64 MP and 108 MP sensors but they're a farcry from what any of the tier-1 camera phones can do.
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Nick Tegrataker, 13 Jan 2022"Apples photography software processing is on point mo... moreI agree it is subjective.But, after using so many phones i ended up relying on iPhone 13 pro max for most consistent photos. (S21 ultra and mi11 ultra). It takes the shot i want 90% of the time. I have not used the pixel 6 pro though.
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Anonymous, 13 Jan 2022It is a welcome change. Apples photography software process... more"Apples photography software processing is on point most of the time"
To my eyes, photos taken by recently released iPhones look consistently awful.
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- 13 Jan 2022
It is a welcome change. Apples photography software processing is on point most of the time. But the photos lack quite a bit of details. I think this move will further solidify its number one status in mobile photography and propel apple into an unassailable lead just like A15 bionic processor.
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- 13 Jan 2022
Great news. Now I'm curious to see if Apple will implement an option to shoot ProRAW in 48MP, as that could blow away most phones' RAW that are output in binned resolution. Of course, we can all ask for an option to shoot ProRAW without having processing baked into the file, too.
Google made the full-res mode completely inaccessible to users on Pixel 6 series, so now (rather ironically) Apple is our only hope in this regard.
Apple needs to do some serious work with the JPEG though - Photos from my iPhone 13 Pro look atrocious most of the time because of its extremely aggressive tone-mapping, sharpening and clarity boost applied to every single one of them. iPhone XS and 11 were doing fine, but they made the post-processing progressively worse since then.
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- 13 Jan 2022
Variant of imx789
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Anonymous, 13 Jan 2022Apple is always late. Others use 108MP long time ago. And q... moreThe last “real” camera I owned was a Panasonic DMC-TZ1, it had a 1” 4 MP sensor.
Nothing that any current phone produces is noticeably better than lose photos from 2009 no matter how many pixels they claim to capture.
You can’t judge camera quality on megapixels, more is not always better, and more is often marketing hype anyway because almost all phone cameras combine multiple pixels to capture decent images.
Post processing is the key to decent phone cameras not megapixels and in that regard Apple are pretty good.