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How much of my new phone cost... ???

Started Apr 19, 2021 | Discussions thread
Chris Wolfgram
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Re: How much of my new phone cost... ???

I2K4 wrote:

Also worth noting the huge pure profit margins on the touted flagship smartphones. Personally I'm convinced smartphones (primarily Apple and Pixel) are doing amazing things on their primitive sensor / lens configurations with computational imaging but also the graphical user interface, automation of routine photography, and even opening devices up with API's for 3d party developers to produce alternative software for the same hardware. I think that will increasingly find it's way into "serious" cameras, which still largely resemble 1980s PCs. There are some fairly crude examples, e.g. the Zeiss running Android in a limited way, my guess is some real breakthroughs are on the horizon for mirrorless cameras.

I2k4, I totally agree ! Can you imagine if they put as much R&D into computational photography with DSLR's  / mirrorless FF cameras, as they have / do with phone cameras ? I can barely imagine the kind of digital info that could be captured and stacked and stitched and tweaked with major computational tech in conjunction with a big FF or even MF sensors ?!

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