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If you have all that why not also make it a phone?
by brokensegue 2y ago
If you have all that why not also make it a phone?
- glial 2y agoPhones have relatively terrible lenses and sensors.
- delecti 2y agoThat isn't an inevitability. The modem doesn't negatively affect the lenses and sensors, choices by people in companies are what result in worse sensors/lenses in phones.
- samcat116 2y agoIt largely is due to physics. There's a reason a Canon 24-70 f2.8 lens is the size that it is.
- hef19898 2y agoMy Pixel takes reasonably good images, even printed some in A4, at A3 they suffer. That is for the camera generated JPEGs, the RAW files are all but unusable. It shows that smartphones use small, and crappy, sensors behind even smaller, and crappier, lenses. Phone got a long way, and there is a reason they replaced point-and-shoots. They are still a far cry from "real" cameras.
- Zambyte 2y agoI think you may have missed the "also" in their comment.
- jsheard 2y agoBecause the thinness of a phone and the optics of a real camera are mutually exclusive. Anything with proper optics is going to be way too chunky to use as a daily driver.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoNot always. See ricoh gr. Chunkier than a smartphone with no case? yes. but still fits in the pocket, and probably not much fatter than that same phone after the user has slapped a case and a wallet or a pop socket onto it.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 2y agoIs that strictly true? If you want it as thin as today's flagship phones, sure, but if you just go for pocketability, it might not be. There are some fantastically compact, perfectly good prime lenses out there. The top end point-and-shoot lines haven't been updated in ages, but even the old ones were are a pretty damned good compromise.