Weekly poll: are macro-enabled ultra wide cameras useful or useless?

25 June 2023
2MP macro modules are almost universally hated, but how do you feel about shooting macro photos with a phone's ultra wide camera?

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  • Anonymous
  • wYI
  • 26 Jun 2023

If they gonna use 2mp for the sake of look we got lots of camera on the phone, definitely garbage.

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    • Andrea
    • nhM
    • 25 Jun 2023

    Mi Note 10 had both.
    UW autofocusing lens kept shooting pictures far way superior than the dedicated 2MP macro module. 10 times the resolution, amazingly short focusing distance. Just a higher risk of distortion and you needed to get closer to the subject.
    To me dedicated modules should be the way to go (but at least 8MP), otherwise a very capable UW could do.

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      • AnonD-1073493
      • gCY
      • 25 Jun 2023

      hmm... if i could take photos like this https://i.imgur.com/mr17yVj.jpg yeah, useful. maybe one day, who knows

        Anonymous, 25 Jun 2023For me just 1 camera lens. Ultra wide lens with Auto Focus ... moreonly if they put 1.5 inch sensor, which it can fit into the bump size of xiaomi 12s ultra.. then they can forget more lens than one

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          • Anonymous
          • YUU
          • 25 Jun 2023

          For me just 1 camera lens. Ultra wide lens with Auto Focus is more than enough for me. Don't need 2 or 3 stupid lenses that waste space inside and also can reduce the phone price. 1 lens is more than enough. Look at DSLR cameras or any point and shoot camera (compact camera) or even dedicated camera for movie production. Did you people see 2 or 3 lenses on those cameras?? Nope, just 1 lens 🙄

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            • Anonymous
            • 6kH
            • 25 Jun 2023

            Vegetaholic, 25 Jun 2023It useless, no one does macro shots, if they do that person... moreEvery tech is useful when you need, it's not smart to say a tech useless.

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              • Anonymous
              • 6kH
              • 25 Jun 2023

              Anonymous, 25 Jun 2023If it was up to me, I'd remove macro camera and instea... moreWhat's better than telephoto macro?
              Do you know some thing than can do it's job better than telephoto macro?

                What happened to dedicated low light sensors

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                  • Mmeco
                  • Nue
                  • 25 Jun 2023

                  Don't like this present survey.
                  I won't be part of it again.
                  The previous one was far better.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • 3SL
                    • 25 Jun 2023

                    Akinaro, 25 Jun 2023Useless and anyone who think that those 2MP cameras are goo... moreRead the article again

                      Useless and anyone who think that those 2MP cameras are good just because they are set to macro... Go make close picture using your main camera and.... just zoom... and crop... you will still get better image than those badly calibrated 2mp that where slapped on phone just to make camera numbers bigger(uhuh, we have 4-6 cameras!)

                        They are definitely more useful than those 2MP/5MP macro cams with fixed focus, which are useless.

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                          • Realme
                          • gML
                          • 25 Jun 2023

                          Only one back 1" sensor and multiple external lens attachment.

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                            • IgorS
                            • LpK
                            • 25 Jun 2023

                            I honestly can live with only two main lenses (wide + ultrawide/periscope/telephoto). but it's nice to have one camera that does two jobs.

                            Unfortunatelly, brands are now reserving ultrawide camera for their premium midrage phones and making a standard set for all basic and affordable midrange phones with two or three cameras (main camera + one or two auxiliary sensors - depth, macro and/or AI).

                            I don't do macro shots because I have no use for them and I rarely use ultrawide camera either. On the other hand, periscope and telephoto cameras are the ones I use the most apart from the main camera and they are nice to have.

                              Nikojas, 25 Jun 2023What are you all taking macro shots of?It only serves to take pictures of the leaves of the plants and the food! I don't see any more use

                                You buy a real camera and stop fooling around! The cameras in the phones are for a casual photo or video at the party, at dinner, on vacation, the beach and nothing else! If you want results like a professional photographer without being one, you buy a 5 thousand dollar camera and that's it... Telephones are just for being connected.




                                Do you want so much resolution and perfection in a photo for what? By the time they upload it to the networks, will it reduce the image quality? hahahahaha what nonsense...

                                  Yes! This is the thing I've been talking about for a long time. I think more phones should have AF/PDAF on their UW modules since it makes them a lot more versatile. Actually, even though it sounds crazy, for me it'd be enough if a phone had a 5x periscope telephoto and an ultrawide with AF, which never happens. What we normally see usually looks somewhat like this: wide + OIS, telephoto/periscope telephoto 2x/3x/5x zoom + OIS, ultrawide or wide + OIS and ultrawide. In other phones you can also see some B/W, depth, TOF 3D/Lidar, macro sensors, but this is a lot more rare.

                                  So yeah, overall it's a really cool feature which is pretty cost-efficient and I'm sure a lot of phones will implement it in the future.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • s8L
                                    • 25 Jun 2023

                                    16 mm ultra wide
                                    35 mm main
                                    85 mm telephoto

                                    These focal length should be standard in all smartphones with aperture near f/1.2 if possible.

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                                      • Stoon
                                      • N1q
                                      • 25 Jun 2023

                                      Anonymous, 25 Jun 2023instead of doing proper updates they giving us macro... do you want an update ? take 2 MP and feel high !
                                      😂

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • nw}
                                        • 25 Jun 2023

                                        instead of doing proper updates they giving us macro...