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iPhone 13 Pro with Waterproof Housing, vs TG6?

Started Jan 24, 2022 | Discussions thread
kelpdiver Veteran Member • Posts: 5,564
Re: iPhone 13 Pro with Waterproof Housing, vs TG6?

SafariBob wrote:

The iPhone has similar sensor size to compacts, and has prime lenses in front, in addition to a large amount of R&D and software.

no amount of research or computational photography gets past the problem that those "primes lenses" are the size of a pinhole.

And the gopro isn't beating it either. Fixed focus lenses are great for video and avoid the hunting problem of FF video in silty waters, but they involve their own compromises.

After browsing through hundreds if not thousands of photos and clips, that's the conclusion I made. I could be wrong, but it wasn't a particularly close call.

and were this so, Backscatter wouldn't even try to sell the TGs, and would just focus on gopros and the filter sets that BS makes.    For all the complaints about the TG not having manual mode, it at least has control and enough buttons to not make you go mad.

It's a brave soul that tries to do macro, or even just closeups, with their gopro.

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