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Does multi lense camera technology as seen in the latest mobil phones have a future within higher end cameras. Will we se better cameras based on 5 or more smaller cameras? Ca This technology be developed to a new and higher level where it becomes an alternative tor traditional cameras?
Are there any promising projects within this field.
 
otto_kjaergaard said:
Does multi lense camera technology as seen in the latest mobil phones have a future within higher end cameras. Will we se better cameras based on 5 or more smaller cameras? Ca This technology be developed to a new and higher level where it becomes an alternative tor traditional cameras?
Are there any promising projects within this field.
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That capability is covered in dedicated cameras with a zoom lens. Smartphones have to fall back on this inelegant solution to allow a range of focal lengths while maintaining an ultra thin form factor.
 
The idea might be good for a photo gear with a fixed focal length lens.

For most fixed lens cameras a zoom is nearly the min standard requirement (all proven result without any sophisticated AI). ILC can put on any lenses.
 
I forgot the name of it but there is one camera that has like 13 lenses It is called light field camera or something?

Google it and it will come up... Cool concept, it is smart phone sized but takes like 50mp photos but don't quote me on that
 
3 different lenses from one lens. Fisheye, rectilinear wide, and normal wide. 4K can only be shot with Fisheye. 1080 will have all 3 to use.
 
tbcass said:
otto_kjaergaard said:
Does multi lense camera technology as seen in the latest mobil phones have a future within higher end cameras. Will we se better cameras based on 5 or more smaller cameras? Ca This technology be developed to a new and higher level where it becomes an alternative tor traditional cameras?
Are there any promising projects within this field.
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That capability is covered in dedicated cameras with a zoom lens. Smartphones have to fall back on this inelegant solution to allow a range of focal lengths while maintaining an ultra thin form factor.
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Huawei just introduced a phone with a 5x optical zoom. Cell phone cameras no longer have to fake zooming. They can do it just like a bridge camera. I expect bridge cameras will be the next market segment to fall victim to cell phones.
 
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which is a standard feature of latest Panasonic M43 ILCs and compacts. It is similar to the idea of light field shooting.

It takes a shot (actually a 1 second length of 4K MP4 file @30fps, has focus point spread across the frame on each of the 30 frames), and the shooter can pick a focus point (anywhere) and export it to a 8Mb jpg. Of course, it would depend on where the 30 focus points had been set by the camera. However I had tested the feature a few times, and it was interesting that so far I can get a good focused shot I wanted.

As per its name, it is originally used to pick focus after the shot (no more focus missing). However, users had used it for focus stacking and hence it is now also a standard focus stacking feature for Panasonic cameras.
 
Wheatfield7 said:
tbcass said:
otto_kjaergaard said:
Does multi lense camera technology as seen in the latest mobil phones have a future within higher end cameras. Will we se better cameras based on 5 or more smaller cameras? Ca This technology be developed to a new and higher level where it becomes an alternative tor traditional cameras?
Are there any promising projects within this field.
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That capability is covered in dedicated cameras with a zoom lens. Smartphones have to fall back on this inelegant solution to allow a range of focal lengths while maintaining an ultra thin form factor.
Click to expand...
Huawei just introduced a phone with a 5x optical zoom. Cell phone cameras no longer have to fake zooming. They can do it just like a bridge camera. I expect bridge cameras will be the next market segment to fall victim to cell phones.
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The small thin form factor greatly limits the potential zoom range. It also limits them to minute sensors which will never be able to compete with cameras like the 1" sensor zoom cameras.
 
tbcass said:
Wheatfield7 said:
tbcass said:
otto_kjaergaard said:
Does multi lense camera technology as seen in the latest mobil phones have a future within higher end cameras. Will we se better cameras based on 5 or more smaller cameras? Ca This technology be developed to a new and higher level where it becomes an alternative tor traditional cameras?
Are there any promising projects within this field.
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That capability is covered in dedicated cameras with a zoom lens. Smartphones have to fall back on this inelegant solution to allow a range of focal lengths while maintaining an ultra thin form factor.
Click to expand...
Huawei just introduced a phone with a 5x optical zoom. Cell phone cameras no longer have to fake zooming. They can do it just like a bridge camera. I expect bridge cameras will be the next market segment to fall victim to cell phones.
Click to expand...
The small thin form factor greatly limits the potential zoom range. It also limits them to minute sensors which will never be able to compete with cameras like the 1" sensor zoom cameras.
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Not withstanding, the fact is, they have put an optical zoom into a cell phone, contrary to your statement. I expect next generation they will prove your form factor statement false as well, which leaves you with the unable to compete with larger sensors. While sort of true, this didn’t stop cell phones from killing the P&S camera segment, even though they had larger sensors.

If they are good enough for purpose, people will buy them instead of a dedicated camera. This has already happened, and as the cell phone camera continues to improve, they will pick off whatever low hanging fruit happens to exist in the camera market. That happens to be bridge cameras at the moment.
 
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otto_kjaergaard said:
Does multi lense camera technology as seen in the latest mobil phones have a future within higher end cameras. Will we se better cameras based on 5 or more smaller cameras? Ca This technology be developed to a new and higher level where it becomes an alternative tor traditional cameras?
Are there any promising projects within this field.
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To me it seems that, since the P&S market is almost over, the phone manufacturers are no longer able to compete on price.
It may be that 4 x 16mm f/1.2 cameras on a x3 crop, are equivalent to a FF with a 50mm f/1.18, but this is not going to be cheap
 
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