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Minolta A1 vs. iPhone 13 Pro, or the king is naked

Started Oct 10, 2021 | Discussions thread
OP toughluck Veteran Member • Posts: 3,933
Re: Minolta A1 vs. iPhone 13 Pro, or the king is naked
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Ainisru wrote:

toughluck wrote:

And I realize I was right all along. I know how to take pictures. It's just that all these phones are crap cameras. The king is naked.

I wasn't pushing the phones any harder than reviewers told me is possible. They just can't be pushed at all.

If that is the best the latest and greatest 2021 smartphone can do in bright conditions, it's not good enough.

It's like.. you've ignored why people talk about phone photography, the YoY improvements, the capabilities, and just hyper focused on one thing, and then trying to create a non sense conversation around that

No. The problem is that I read reviews (not necessarily this one) which gush about night picture quality and how they're "better than anything the reviewer ever saw". Then I take a picture with the phone they were reviewing and think that either I can't take pictures or the camera in the phone isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I read years ago that there's no reason to own a digicam, since phones are not only more convenient, but also take better pictures.

Then reviews stated that, thanks to advances in computational photography, phones take better pictures than advanced digicams. And finally that image quality rivals DSLRs and mirrorless cameras.

And that was already several years ago.

Digital cameras improved too, didn't they? So one would have thought that my 16 year old digital camera can't have possibly taken better pictures than the most recent, most advanced, in one word — best — phone camera on the market ever made, can it? It turns out that it can.

It was a comparison done at a whim because I knew I had a picture of my wife's eyes somewhere, and I wanted to make a comparison. I didn't realize it was slightly out of focus... and it still had more detail.

Sure, Rishi said that his wife's eyes are rather featureless. Fine, but if you look at skin detail and eyelashes, you'll realize that there's still less detail in the phone picture. And  iPhone's bokeh is simply dreadful.

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