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That's not what MKBHD said in the video at all. He said that Apple has recently bumped the megapixels of their camera system, and that probably they haven't adj

That's not what MKBHD said in the video at all. He said that Apple has recently bumped the megapixels of their camera system, and that probably they haven't adjusted their post-processing pipeline to account for that. e.g. they need to tone it down a bit because now they actually do have more details/photons to work with. It seems like the author of this article is trying to use MKBHD's cachet to help champion his own point ("I don't like this AI post-processing much at all") which I doubt is one Marques would agree with, given that the phone which won his blind test is one that does just as much (if not more) post-processing than the iPhone, the Pixel 6A.

tqi 4y ago
Totally agree, nothing in the video supports the assertion that "Apple should give users the option to take natural photos." I would go as far as to say the video essentially says the idea that there is such thing as "natural photos" is not an objective thing, that ultimately every company has to make choices on lighting/contrast/wb/sharpness/etc, and "natural" is a matter of taste.
twoodfin 4y ago
Indeed. If you read between the lines, there are some hints that internal design / engineering issues + supply chain snafus left Apple with a mismatch between their new camera system and the SoC that supports it. To me, the clearest signal of this is what Halide can and can’t do with the new Pro sensor. In ideal lighting, the Halide-processed 48MP JPEG shots look insanely good, with strand-of-hair-level detail. It’s hard to imagine Apple wouldn’t have wanted to show off the ability for ordinary users to take these shots. But capture speed is several seconds, and if conditions aren’t ideal, even that isn’t enough to get a clean shot. Like MKBHD said about Google & the Pixel: Apple needs a generation or two for computation to be optimized for the capabilities of their new sensor.

tqi 4y ago

Totally agree, nothing in the video supports the assertion that "Apple should give users the option to take natural photos." I would go as far as to say the video essentially says the idea that there is such thing as "natural photos" is not an objective thing, that ultimately every company has to make choices on lighting/contrast/wb/sharpness/etc, and "natural" is a matter of taste.

twoodfin 4y ago

Indeed. If you read between the lines, there are some hints that internal design / engineering issues + supply chain snafus left Apple with a mismatch between their new camera system and the SoC that supports it. To me, the clearest signal of this is what Halide can and can’t do with the new Pro sensor. In ideal lighting, the Halide-processed 48MP JPEG shots look insanely good, with strand-of-hair-level detail. It’s hard to imagine Apple wouldn’t have wanted to show off the ability for ordinary users to take these shots. But capture speed is several seconds, and if conditions aren’t ideal, even that isn’t enough to get a clean shot. Like MKBHD said about Google & the Pixel: Apple needs a generation or two for computation to be optimized for the capabilities of their new sensor.