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Surely its more about the fact that lenses have to be a certain size.
by easytiger 12y ago
Surely its more about the fact that lenses have to be a certain size.
- alkonaut 12y agoLenses have to be a certain size of the sensors and apertures are a certain size. And those sizes are fixed, for a given image (with a specific depth of field etc). So physics (the optics) is a thing. A breakthrough in optics that removed the need for heavy glass to bend light would be a revolution.
- custardcream 12y agoThis. to quote my father (who is actually a professional photographer): Pissy lens; pissy photo. You need chunks of glass at the moment regardless of sensor size. I carry a basic DSLR around with me (D3100) and a decent but cheap lens (AF-S DX 18-55) and a shit smartphone. They cost less than a good smartphone and the results are amazing.
- danieltillett 12y agoI was under the impression that there are basically not enough photons at the sizes that most smart phones sensors are. Once you get to low light levels a tiny sensor just can't be fed enough photons to give a good picture.
- custardcream 12y agoThat's basically it but the amount of light reaching that sensor is improved by a somewhat larger lens than you usually get on a smartphone.
- danieltillett 12y agoSure. The more glass you have the more photons you can gather. I have a f1.2 50mm lense and the amount of photons it can pull in is amazing. There is no way any phone is going to be able to replicate this.