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This is actually a good upgrade for the first gen M1 models. It’s a good 40% CPU and a good 50% GPU performance upgrade from those, p,use the various media encide and decide bumps. Additionally the machine learning cores are enhanced, which is important going forwards as Apple introduces their new AI into the various OSs in June, this year.

i do think Apple should do more each year than just SoC upgrades.

I’m surprised Apple hasn't done this earlier. Sony could still manufacturer the sensors, or Canon could. It’s less the manufacturing than the design though. Sensors are vastly easier than current modems. That doesn’t mean that it is easy. But I imagine Apple has engineers who have been investigating this for some time. And Apple has to,have a good understanding of it to just design cameras around current sensors, so it isn’t as though it will be entirely new for them. In past years they even stated that the sensors they use have Apple technology, so possibly they already have some Apple DNA inside.

doing their own would be advantageous not necessarily because Apple could design a better sensor, but because they could design one that matches the way their SoC and software manipulates the info coming off the sensor. Right now, they have to work with whatever the sensor provides. That means the specific limitations of the sensor has to be understood and worked around. Their own sensor could be worked to give better results where Apple believes they can do less with the results, and slightly worse where they can do better with it. I know that sound like stepping backwards, but it isn’t. It’s playing into Apple’s strengths

id like to see Apple design a sensor with more onboard processing than they have now. This has been a trend over the years, but it has a long way to go. Apple can do this much better than Sony could.

nikon has an agreement with Sony to modify their designs which Sony then produces from them. It’s a reason why Nikon is understood to be able to pull slightly more IQ out of it than Sony does in their own cameras with the same sensor. That shows that Sony’s designs, by themselves, aren’t the best that can be done. There’s plenty of room for improvement in camera sensors. I’d love to see if Apple can make those improvements.

Well, they came in today. I took my first eagerly awaited ProRex log video, just a short piece, and edited it. No joke folks. It’s noticeably better than shooting in plain HDR or standard. Much easier to bring the contrast where it belongs. Much easier to adjust color and saturation, and none of the over sharpening we normally see. And that was just in Apple’s app. I haven’t yet tried FCP or DeVinci Resolve.

I posted this a little while ago on a previous article here today, but no one seems to be reading that article so I’m reposting it here.

” Both my wife and I here in NYC, along with our daughter in Dallas Texas had problems ordering this morning.

despite being early and waiting for the store to open (late), the store app we were all using didn’t seem to want to process our orders. First there were problems in getting the store. Then finally, almost fifteen minutes later, there were errors telling us to try again later. Again finally, it began. At the very end when I was ready to double tap the button for Apple Pay to go through, I was told my session had expired and I had to reorder my phone from the beginning. My wife went through the same thing and then was told that Apple Pay wasn’t installed, so she had to pay directly with AmEx.

my daughter had the same problems I had, but was also finally able to get one. She got lucky and is getting hers next week. But because of the problems and likely because of the popularity of the model and configuration, mine won’t be arriving until between Oct 6 and 22nd. My wife’s between the 8th and 24th.

usually the store opens a couple of minutes late, but we’ve never had problems like this before. I would have believed the problems were ours but for my daughter, with a different account halfway across the country, also having the same problems.

anyone else here have problems?”

ralphie said:

hmlongco said:

Interesting that the periscope telephoto zoom actually seems to be a fixed focal length 120mm eq.. Like the brushed titanium finish, and the new action button.

The addition of Spatial Video was a surprise, as was reverse charging the Watch and AirPods.

That is NOT a periscope lens.  It appears Apple bailed on the periscope, and went with some other fixed focal length zoom technology.  What a shame.  At least with the 14 PM you had 0.5,1,2,3x zoom, 15PM leaves a big gap between 2 and 5x.

Do you know what a periscope lens is? It’s not necessarily a zoom. It’s a lens that’s bent, optically, by 90 degrees. That’s exactly what this is. Apple uses several prisms to shrink the length of that lens within the camera. That gives more room inside the phone for other things, such as a bigger battery. Maybe next year we’ll get true optical zoom as well.