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Possible but unlikely. They have had a decade to see this coming and innovate. They just kept selling the same thing with more megapixels.

Ancapistani 5y ago
This isn't my experience _at all_. Until about six months ago, I carried a Fujifilm X-E2. It's an older camera (~2014), and was 16.3 MP. I upgraded to an X-Pro3, which is 26.1MP. Given that the MP stat increases with the square of resolution, that's not a huge change. My iPhone X has a 12MP camera, the same as the iPhone 13 Pro. The technical resolution _doesn't matter_. It hasn't mattered since the 10MP barrier was breached. I would prefer the Nikon that I carried in ~2004 to the iPhone 13 Pro for "photography". Note that that is in quotes, because "photography" is very different from "taking pictures". I use my iPhone when I'm with my family most of the time and it's great for that. It's great for documenting activities and "capturing memories". That's not at all the same thing as "photography". My X-Pro3 can produce excellent images at 12,800 ISO and f/1.4. My iPhone doesn't even tell me what ISO its capable of as far as I know, has a static f/2.4 aperture, and the OS "Camera" app doesn't even let me set shutter speed. It does "does its best". They aren't comparable tools.
- copperx 5y ago
  Yes, a photo is not a snapshot. But no one can deny that the iPhone 13 Pro is among the best snapshot tools in the world.
- imwillofficial 5y ago
  This has nothing to do with the fact that the professional camera industry has failed to adapt to new and improved tools and methods that apple has largely pioneered in the field.
agumonkey 5y ago
I mean I get the point, smartphones did feel like incredible wonders, thin, instant, stupid simple.. but if it swaps "reality" for gimmicks then I can see why actual camera brands wouldn't pursue it or at least leverage it in their own products. Absolute ease is rarely a requirement for quality, be it in photography, music .. or most things I guess.
- imwillofficial 5y ago
  As a photographer I understood that my pictures never reflected reality I saw it with my own eyes. I used various knobs and functions to get the desired vision I had. DSLRs have their places, but to say that the entire professional camera industry wasn’t caught off-guard and failed to respond in kind to the rise of computational photography is an easy statement to make.
- kaba0 5y ago
  They don’t swap reality for gimmicks, that “article” is fake.

Ancapistani 5y ago

This isn't my experience _at all_. Until about six months ago, I carried a Fujifilm X-E2. It's an older camera (~2014), and was 16.3 MP. I upgraded to an X-Pro3, which is 26.1MP. Given that the MP stat increases with the square of resolution, that's not a huge change. My iPhone X has a 12MP camera, the same as the iPhone 13 Pro. The technical resolution _doesn't matter_. It hasn't mattered since the 10MP barrier was breached. I would prefer the Nikon that I carried in ~2004 to the iPhone 13 Pro for "photography". Note that that is in quotes, because "photography" is very different from "taking pictures". I use my iPhone when I'm with my family most of the time and it's great for that. It's great for documenting activities and "capturing memories". That's not at all the same thing as "photography". My X-Pro3 can produce excellent images at 12,800 ISO and f/1.4. My iPhone doesn't even tell me what ISO its capable of as far as I know, has a static f/2.4 aperture, and the OS "Camera" app doesn't even let me set shutter speed. It does "does its best". They aren't comparable tools.

copperx 5y ago
Yes, a photo is not a snapshot. But no one can deny that the iPhone 13 Pro is among the best snapshot tools in the world.
imwillofficial 5y ago
This has nothing to do with the fact that the professional camera industry has failed to adapt to new and improved tools and methods that apple has largely pioneered in the field.

agumonkey 5y ago

I mean I get the point, smartphones did feel like incredible wonders, thin, instant, stupid simple.. but if it swaps "reality" for gimmicks then I can see why actual camera brands wouldn't pursue it or at least leverage it in their own products. Absolute ease is rarely a requirement for quality, be it in photography, music .. or most things I guess.

imwillofficial 5y ago
As a photographer I understood that my pictures never reflected reality I saw it with my own eyes. I used various knobs and functions to get the desired vision I had. DSLRs have their places, but to say that the entire professional camera industry wasn’t caught off-guard and failed to respond in kind to the rise of computational photography is an easy statement to make.
kaba0 5y ago
They don’t swap reality for gimmicks, that “article” is fake.