• tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk
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    1 year ago

    My theory is Google etc. focus on cameras so much because reviewers are media people that take a lot of videos and photos… if you want a good review you ship a good camera.

    Meanwhile all I want to see as an ordinary user is battery life, size and weight. If I take a photo it’s going on facebook (Well, more like mastodon these days) and any camera phone made in the last 10 years is fine.

    • Synapse@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I feel you. I went for a pixel 7 so that I can use GrapheneOS, but this thing is a hefty-chonker, and if i am bored at work, the battery will barely make it through the day. My former CCP-branded phone was much lighter and would easily last 2 days with one charge when new.

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      1 year ago

      You can clearly see a qualitative difference between good and bad cameras even onf facebook-sized photos.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, but for the vast majority of people the difference is completely irrelevant. 4k to 8k doesn’t matter, we’re already in HD.

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          1 year ago

          It’s not about the resolution which as you mention is already more than sufficient. But you can easily see bad optics, bad color rendition, oversharpening etc. on a 500px image.

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    1 year ago

    amazing

    Let me know when it can go to work for me and I can sit on the couch all day while collecting a paycheck. ‘the camera is supposed to be better’ wow such amazing foresight from such a well-articulated article. Truly courageous to make such a trailblazing statement. Nobody has ever improved a product as a selling point before.

    This is a marginal upgrade from the 6 and 7. Megapixel numbers alone don’t really mean anything, and ‘oh that’s cool I guess’ editing tools are meh - nobody does actual editing on their phone. If it could shoot depth-aware photos, or if it was always active with a buffer so you could go back in time X amount and save a photo you’d otherwise missed, or if it could start working to help offset the $900 (7 Pro) price a bit, that would be worthy of ‘amazing’.

    When everything is ‘mind-blowing’ and ‘amazing’, nothing is.