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They are still only collecting a limited number of photons. That's a fundamental limit to how good a camera can be, and size helps massively. They are also diff
by mnw21cam 5y ago
They are still only collecting a limited number of photons. That's a fundamental limit to how good a camera can be, and size helps massively. They are also diffraction-limited, meaning that at the size of the lens they cannot be any more sharp. These are hard physical limits that we're getting really close to. A DSLR with a much bigger lens and much bigger sensor is always going to produce better pictures.
- oblio 5y agoYeah, but as Apple used to say: "it's not about speeds and feeds". At some point for the average human eye the "speeds and feeds" provided by smartphones, when coupled with smart combined lens usage and machine learning, will be enough. Pixel peeping is really rare and photo accuracy doesn't matter as much for the average person seeing a photo on a small device. They're not going to print that photo on glossy paper for a posh magazine or put it on a huge billboard.
- pjmlp 5y agoTrue, however they are making use of machine learning to add the missing pixels. How much of a real photo that actually is, is debatable, however many users will probably be happy with the result.