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It’s not just the look of the larger aperture and longer focal lengths, The sharpness is abysmal. I can’t stand that watercolor look that every smartphone photo
by aikinai 7y ago
It’s not just the look of the larger aperture and longer focal lengths, The sharpness is abysmal. I can’t stand that watercolor look that every smartphone photo has.
Also dynamic range, but that’s much easier to fake.
- dylan604 7y agoIt's easier to fake, but it's still not the same. By that, I mean that the final image might have that look, but you can't do anything with it after the fact. With a RAW image with true dynamic range, you can do whatever you want with it and change it up as you wish. The compression on the images is also another thing contributing to the watercolor look and lack of sharpness. Cell phone cameras are worried about space constraints on the device itself and across the network.
- falcrist 7y agoMost phones I've dealt with actually allow you to output raw image files. I'm not saying they have the same dynamic range as my A7iii, but they're not compressed or color-value limited like JPEG.
- falcrist 7y agoTrue, but there are going to be ways to make smartphone images sharper. You can already do some work in Lightroom to mostly bridge the gap. IMO professional camera manufacturers need to get ahead of that by putting computational photography techniques in their full frame bodies.
- sudosysgen 7y agoYes, but ultimately no matter how much computational photography and odd filter arrays you throw it, the diffraction limit will kill you with a 2mm wide smartphone camera.