The next Foveon camera?

Doppler9000 wrote:

tarmov wrote:

Doppler9000 wrote:

tarmov wrote:

Doppler9000 wrote:

Second, the insistence on analyzing sensors at the pixel level makes no sense. Bayer sensor designers are using smaller pixels both to increase resolution and to reduce aliasing. These advances are ignored in the “compression ratio” analysis, hopelessly skewing the results.

1:1 viewing matters on any screens, because that avoids interpolation, which is essentially weighted averaging, which is essentially smoothing.

-Tarmo

So what?

What if you crop an image?

In most cases amateurs don't do that.

Really? You ignored the cropping question.

If an image is cropped, your perfect pixel ratio disappears.

The primary way for amateurs to "consume" their images is looking at a screen.

Printed 10x15cm photo albums are ancient history (except for the older generation).

I understand that you don’t believe cell phones have had an impact on the camera market, but at 10x15cm, a modern phone would be plenty for most people.

I'm sorry, why do you think smartphone cameras keep getting better and better? Why do you think that the best smartphones (or at least the most expensive, flagship modeks) actually have three or four cameras on the back, as well as the one on the front? Why do you think there are so many smartphones with 50 MP  cameras now, rather than the same old 8MP, 12 MP, or 16 MP cameras, which could capture photos that easily fill the screen of a smartphone, with plenty of fine detail? Do you think it's because people don't want more detail in their photos? Samsung's S23 Ultra has a 104 MP camera, if I'm not mistaken. It sells for around $1,000 or more, and while I acknowledge Samsung and all the smartphone companies upgrade their phones in many ways, such as increasing RAM and processor speed, improving the screens, and adding 5G capability, the cameras do indeed help sell them. I know a professional photographer that bought a Samsung with that hundred megapixel camera, because she just wanted a phone with a better camera.

-Tarmo