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> Improvement in camera could be enticing, but the platforms to which the photos, videos are shared would compress them anyways Strongly agree, and the reason
by davnicwil 7y ago
> Improvement in camera could be enticing, but the platforms to which the photos, videos are shared would compress them anyways
Strongly agree, and the reason for that is that is that level of quality is good enough for the 99.99% use case of photography and anything above is simply a waste of storage space.
If you are actually a professional artist, it matters. If you're doing computer vision, it matters. For the other 99.99% of photos, it doesn't matter.
What Apple is selling at this point is just the aspiration that you're in the special 0.01%, or could be.
- alistairSH 7y agoAgree and disagree. Yes, the chips and sensors used in modern phone cameras are ridiculously good for the size and cost. And phone cameras started replacing budget and mid-price P&S cameras years ago. But, Apple's move to a triple camera set-up is really compelling. Not only has the phone replaced the average P&S, it's now replacing higher end P&S. The main argument for a separate P&S these days is a zoom lens. Apple just made that argument moot (superzooms notwithstanding). You can now take landscape, snapshot, and portrait photos natively on the camera without stitching or cropping. That's amazing. Or, at least I think so. I was considering replacing my wife's older Canon S90 P&S with a new Sony RX100 IV. I probably won't bother - I'll just replace her iPhone 8 with an 11 Pro.