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Budget Camera Recomendation
Electro Detective:
--- Quote from: magic on April 27, 2020, 09:45:48 pm ---
Such a shame, the covid app would take the best pictures of PCBs in the world :D
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It's always the way isn't it ? :horse:
yeah, the pictures would be great for troubleshooting legit bugs :P
and halt the spread of the problem at the workbench :clap:
and billions of people won't have to stress about it :phew:
;D
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@ admiralk awesome bird mate :-+ a bit blurred, use flash next time
or tell bird 'hey, stay still!' ;)
tooki:
--- Quote from: magic on April 26, 2020, 07:52:30 pm ---Ironically, phones could have an edge over point and shoots because they use prime lenses which are easier to optimize and make with wide aperture. I mean, it is an edge as long as you are OK with whatever angle of view the manufacturer chose for you ::) But anyway, it seems that about f/2 is the norm for phones these days, which enables a few megapixels worth of detail on a 1/3"~1/2.5" sensor if aberrations are taken care of.
That being said, I stumbled upon a review of some super-duper iPhone 11 Pro Max today, apparently Apple's TOTL phone, and I am absolutely not impressed by their sensor / image processing performance. A bunch of sample photos shot in bright sunlight and every single one has painful noise reduction artifacts all over the place. Somehow small sensor p&s aren't as bad.
Why, Apple, why? :wtf:
https://www.dxomark.com/apple-iphone-11-pro-max-camera-review/
Is that stuff seriously supposed to be the best that smartphones have to offer? :scared:
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I pored over that review and cannot find those “bright sunlight” pics with “noise reduction artifacts all over the place”. In the low light shots, yes. In the bright sunlight, absolutely not.
magic:
Smudges on water, posterization on clouds, thick grain on other clouds and elsewhere on water. Some of the grass is suspicious too but I'm not entirely sure, the underlying real texture of grass overpowers the crap. Just the general look of overzealous noise reduction that I can't stand :P
For comparison, similar scene from a "real" camera with similar size CMOS sensor and similar pixel density. It's not stellar and there is some noise too, but at least it goes away when you scale to 50% (which is a much more reasonable megapixel output from such tiny sensor anyway). The phone's artifacts don't disappear at 50%.
https://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/canon-sx60/canon-sx60GALLERY.HTM
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