Xiaomi 14 Ultra is here: brighter 1-inch main camera, Titanium Special Edition
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- 22 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 22 Feb 2024Yet another example of marketing gimmick: bigger aperture, ... moreWhile small apertures may be cool for portraits at longer focal lengths (say 75mm), companies struggling to get super bright apertures on wide angles is rather pointless as they are unflattering to use for portraits or other single subject type of shots.
It is actually actually commendable that they did something useful by allowing such short focusing distances for the longer lenses, albeit they went with 2.51" sensor even if various previous models had 1.2" sensors, so that is a step backwards especially if the user wants to shoot RAW like I do and where you need to use the appropriate software to recover the shadows and highlights. After all this phone is supposed to be catering to the more pretensions people taking shots rather than the average Joe who won't even care to pay for this product neither for what it claims to offer neither for the brand itself.
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- 22 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 22 Feb 2024Older Ultras had 1/2" sensors no problem, Xiaomi Mi 10... more10U and 11U have smaller main cam = more space inside.
12sU has 3 cameras = more space inside.
14u is almost 2mm shorter than 12sU. And has larger battery and extra camera.
Not easy to fit.
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- 22 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 22 Feb 2024"f/1.63 and f/4.0 here, which will let up to 136% more... more36% more light because of aperture change as you said
But it also takes in 100% more light as it has double the light gathering area per pixel
On the 989, half the pixel was circuitry and half took in light
Hence 100%+36%=136%
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- 22 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 22 Feb 2024Current oppo flagship does not use 1/1.56" for super w... moreOlder Ultras had 1/2" sensors no problem, Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra, Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, Xiaomi 12S Ultra.
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- 22 Feb 2024
The camera crystal circle looks huge, so much that it looks kind of bad tbh.
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- 22 Feb 2024
Marco M, 22 Feb 2024No, we're not. We get what we pay for. European VAT, r... moreSometimes you get less than what you pay for
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- 22 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 22 Feb 2024Yet another example of marketing gimmick: bigger aperture, ... moreYou can't be more wrong. When ever brand pushes AI, OIS etc, what comes out at the top will still be a combination of sensor size and f-number. If 14ultra would use back f1.9 for main, it will lose roughly 30% light gathering, that might be a different between getting a sharp and a blurry photo with the same AI/OIS technology. The slight corner quality issues would be secondary if you cannot even get a sharp photo.
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- 22 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 22 Feb 2024"an outrageous 474% more than the Pro."
That... moreBro...
You must be a mathematical expert...
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- 22 Feb 2024
What about updates ? It has good processor
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- 22 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 22 Feb 2024Yet another example of marketing gimmick: bigger aperture, ... moreLens is same 23mm. Going f1.6 from 1.9 is making pupile larger.
Crop factor is 2,6416.
You have F4,22 x F5.02
23/4,22 = 5,45mm
23/5.02 = 4:58mm
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- 22 Feb 2024
Limerain, 22 Feb 2024Still using small sensors for the secondary camera's. ... moreCurrent oppo flagship does not use 1/1.56" for super wide.
It was reduced to allow second periscope.
Also, to use the 1/1.56" as periscope, range is shorter than what smaller sensor allows.
It is not about "willing to do some stuff". Some stuff is not always possible.
Vivo X100 Ultra removes the 50-ish camera to have space for the bigger sensor inside periscope, that is going to be cropped as well. It is 160MP at 100mm that is gonna output 10MP then upscale to 12.5.
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- 22 Feb 2024
I liked the 13 Ultras back design a lot more than this flat bottom one other than that this sounds great.
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- 22 Feb 2024
SShock, 22 Feb 2024Pricing always kills Xiaomi stuff and it's just so wei... moreWait its 1500 for global rom? LMAO
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- 22 Feb 2024
Limerain, 22 Feb 2024Still using small sensors for the secondary camera's. ... moreI agree. I would love to see bigger sensors for UV and at least one tele.
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- 22 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 22 Feb 2024Yet another example of marketing gimmick: bigger aperture, ... moreBut now everywhere you can use longer exposures. Like photos of your baby or pet. There even small gains are good. And If I have to choose between photos with slightly worse CA and with smaller motion blur, and better handled CA but with greater motion blur, then I pick the first one. And if you don't like it, you can close the lens a little bit. Having more options is always better.
And as for F stop to focal length. In 13 Ultra you had the same focal length, so it is a gain here.
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- 22 Feb 2024
Ok, waiting the torture test by someone before buying : drop & bend please ... Gold bless you !
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- 22 Feb 2024
Still using small sensors for the secondary camera's. They could at least have used 1/56" sensors like oppo did...
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- 22 Feb 2024
Yet another example of marketing gimmick: bigger aperture, or more specifically smaller f number.
It was useful when phones had tiny camera sensors and really struggled in low light. But nowadays sensors are huge, especially in the phone in question, and even a f1.9 lens is quite big and already lets enough light in. With progresses in OIS technology, phones handle a slightly longer exposure very well nowadays. Absolutely no need for a smaller f-number.
However, marketing gimmick terminologies such as "aperture", "megapixels" etc tend to live on despite having little relevance today. They think smaller f number=more light=automatically better photos! Just like those who think more megapixels=better.
But little do they know that there's a difference between f number and actual aperture size. An SCT with massive 8" aperture is f10! Because its focal length is also massive at 80". F number is focal ratio=focal length/aperture. So you need to take focal length into account to find aperture size, not just f number!
Also, smaller the f number or focal ratio, worse is the aberration and quality control is harder and costlier. This negativity affects image quality. This drawback clearly outweighs the extra light you'll get in, which could be achieved with slightly longer exposure anyway and modern OIS and computational photography easily allows that.
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- 22 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 22 Feb 2024>Xiaomi calls the glass on top of the display Shield Gla... moreOh and the wallpaper is from iPhone 12 Pro „inspired“
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- 22 Feb 2024
>Xiaomi calls the glass on top of the display Shield Glass and says it has 10 times higher drop resistance and is also clearer. The corners of the screen are lightly curved on all sides, Xiaomi calls this an All Around Liquid display.
Can’t even think of their own names. Just copy one half of Ceramic Shield, Liquid Retina, …