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

Started Oct 10, 2021 | Discussions thread
Mescalamba Contributing Member • Posts: 902
Re: Minolta A1 vs. iPhone 13 Pro, or the king is naked

For fun, full size (downsampled as if pixel-binned) taken with unnamed phone.

It has fairly good image quality, problems are..

1) vignetting is heavy, needs correction

2) blue/purple fringe like mad (probably due not so great UV filter)

3) no AA means moire and false color, on other hand at least some resolution

4) needs quite a bit of know how, to squeeze the goods from RAWs

Is my KM-7D better? In most aspects, apart resolution, absolutely. Basically even old Canon 1Ds would with today processing beat majority of cellphones, if not all.

But since I bought that cellphone I took a lot more pics than I did for past years, despite having two dSLRs. Its just very convenient.

Sadly I think modern cellphones rely too much on processing and too little on hardware itself. Similar case in lens design for regular cameras too (ofc depends on manufacturer).

Apple is overhyped, but there are decent phones with very decent cameras on board.

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