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Apple has big camera upgrades lined up through iPhone 19 Pro
Your problem taking pictures with your phone isn’t the fault of the phone. It’s the fault of you not knowing how to minimize reflections. If you just want to take a snap, which is what you’re saying, then you get what anyone else with any camera will get, no matter how good it is. It’s up to you to think about where the reflection is coming from, and doing something about it. Take a piece of cardboard and put it between the light that’s causing the reflection and the subject. Or a piece of white cloth.Pema said:All this constant chatter about cameras, cameras, cameras. I get it. Phone users want to take pics. Of just about anything, anytime, everywhere. These days you can't stroll on a street and not see someone holding up their phone taking a picture of some rather ordinary pigeon perched on a bollard. Big deal. You know that this pic and the photographer isn't going to end up in a museum somewhere alongside Ansel Adams.
For my part I would like to have a camera to be useful to take the most mundane pictures without the constant frustrations that I always experience. I am standing in front my shiny car attempting to take a pick of a panel that needs scratch repair. What do I see? My reflection. So I try to lean away and what do I see? My hands hanging goofy like trying to shoot that pic. How bloody annoying.
Then you are trying to flog something online, same deal. A stainless steel kettle and there you are like some skulking creep in the reflection.
These are my bugbears about all this talk about cameras. For the average camera user I don't care how many pixels and how many lens when I can't solve the simple straightforward problem of reflection. Of course, you are going to jump in and say, hey get a tripod. Why didn't I think of that? Try lining up that shot, Sherlock.
The other issue with phones, negating the all pervasive issue with cameras, is the utterly, stupid inadvertent touching of the screen and suddenly when you look at your phone screen you are facing some alien in outer space trying to flog you a bunch of stellar dust. Huh? How they hell did I get there?
And finally there is this dot.com, Dutch Tulip Mania about AI. Every few years the IT industry sinks into the doldrums and then needs a spark, AI. Well, there was a company called Borland run by a bloke called Philip Khan who released a piece of software called Turbo AI back in the last century.
Guess what the challenge was? Data. The data that the IT industry is going to scrape to give you intelligent anything is your data manipulated by algorithms, in case you haven't figured that out.
In other words, it's not organic AI, it's old, crap data being scraped from humongous warehouses filled to the rafters with servers housing giga mounds of data. And the more we use our phones, our computers to search and do anything the data grows diametrically. But have you noticed this? As soon as you search for a warm toilet seat cover on your next search there are ten vendors that want to flog you warm toilet seat covers. That's not generative or predictive. That's just plain old stupid AI Mimicking. You searched for this so I am going to give you the same.
Anyone whose ever stock traded will have noticed the disclaimer: past winnings is not guarantee of future earnings. And that disclaimer ought to be slapped on any AI product in the future: past data is being used to give you your answers but it is no guarantee of anything useful. It's the old saying garbage in/garbage out.
Nvidia is running a storm of success to mega trillions, watch how they plummet back to earth same as the Dutch Tulip Mania and the dot.com when the ordinary folks work out that there is no magic bullet in AI. Just the same-o, same-o.
The day that someone delivers organic AI is the day I will sit up and take notice. Till, one big, fat yawn
Come to think of it, I believe that that is what Humane AI was trying to deliver. Real time AI. See how well they did??
The point is that you have to be proactive here. No camera can do that for you - yet. Maybe someday. Yes, it means you’ll have to actually think about what’s happening and how you’ll fix any problem. But you know the old adage; “if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.”
as for people taking pictures of birds or whatever, it’s not up to you to decide what they need in a camera. You also have no idea of what they’re thinking. If an iPhone doesn’t do it for you, but a flip phone and spends a few thousand on a “real” camera and lenses to see if you can do better.Meanwhile, companies and individuals will continue using iPhones for movies, Tv shoes, product and fashion, industrial videos, etc. Oh, and award winning photos that end up in museums too.
i am looking forwards to all the improvements Apple can make to the cameras, the computational area and even some AI assist. I’m not ashamed to say that after a career of doing commercial work, running a commercial lab and consulting with Kodak and Apple about color standards many years ago, that despite having a Canon R5 with a number of lenses, I use mt iPhone Pro Max for most of my photography, as for a lot of work, it’s actually good enough.
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iPhone 16 Pro again rumored to get Tetraprism zoom lens
That puny ass 48MP sensor is pretty damn good for a small sensor. The computational work really does help. I’ve been using my 15 PRo Max since it first came out and I’m impressed just how good the RAW images are - if you know how to edit them. You’ve obviously never used it. You’re just trolling here.oscarg said:48 MP on a puny-ass sensor behind a puny-ass lens. What a pathetic joke.Apple: Stop dicking around with gimmicks and bring back Touch ID and the headphone jack. You've had your laugh; now suck less.
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iPhone 16 Pro again rumored to get Tetraprism zoom lens
I just don’t like the word “zoom” to mean digital cropping or interpolated pixels. I become uncomfortable with that, even if the results are “ok”.nubus said:
You're right that iPhones don't have optical zoom. They have what one could describe as "optical range zoom" where multiple lenses shoot the same photo allowing an iPhone to create non-native focal length captures based on data.The 48 MP sensors seems to allow a wider distance between lenses while still delivering good photos.charlesn said:Whereas the current main lens in the 15 Pro handles the 24mm-76mm range, the main lens in the 16 Pro would have to handle the 24mm-119mm range, after which the 120mm lens would kick in.
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Apple's entire iPad lineup for the next year may have just been leaked
I would still like to have a 14”, or 16” iPad Pro.
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If Apple's research pans out, an iPhone could be a portable science lab
What? What do you know of what I do? Nothing, obviously.rikipedia said:melgross said:I would get this.
Oh, would you get this?
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