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My OG Canon PowerShot (Compact flash!) took better photos in many ways than almost every Point-and-Shoot digital camera I've had since. It just didn't have the
by pengaru 4y ago
My OG Canon PowerShot (Compact flash!) took better photos in many ways than almost every Point-and-Shoot digital camera I've had since. It just didn't have the megapixels.
But it was free of chromatic aberrations, didn't have bleed or other fringing on high-contrast edges. There were clear advantages to not pushing the limits of how many megapixels you can pack into a small sensor.
- yobbo 4y ago20 megapixels is 5000x4000 which is unpractical, and always scaled down on the web. The phone lens aperture might be too small to capture meaningful details beyond a certain distant from the camera, so 20 megapixels is probably physically overkill anyway. Also, post/processing on the phone lightens underexposed regions and darkens regions that would be overexposed, and then evens white balance to a "nice" contrast. So, understandably, people can find cameras with better optics and "raw" images better for artistic use.