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The other way of looking at Windows Phone OS is: 1 - Microsoft was late to the party when there were already two strong players. They had been early with a Windows Phone but that was the old ...

No need to be condescending. It's a reasonable POV that a fan-centric forum might not be as objective as a mixed one.

Here's a Milky Way shot from a Pixel 4a5g, only adjusted for WB and levels. It's certainly not an excellent shot, but given the subject, pretty impressive from a cell camera.

"...the Pixel is amazing..." Aren't you the same guy who posted in another post that the Pixel photo "garbage, mushy, no detail"? Seems like your story changes.

Lumia has better, bigger sensor, but Pixel has superior compuational processing. Apples to oranges.

1 - more impressive specs justify higher prices 2 - you're running a full Linux OS on a supercomputer in your pocket

The issue for larger sensors is that to do the technique, you need to be able to have a rapid readout, which small sensors have (your phone doesn't even have a mechanical shutter), and larger ...

Yes, that's my assumption as well. But I think the EXIF should show the total exposure rather than the individual frames' exposures.

All correct, except that in some smartphones (Google), there is analysis of the photo on a per-pixel basis. Blurry image segments can be thrown out. It's not perfect, but it is surprising that for ...

The entire point of HDR+, first offered by Google in the Nexus phones, is that the phone is continuously taking short underexposed images into a rotating photo buffer and constantly throwing away ...

Of course it looks awful zoomed in. It's a phone sensor. But the fact that a phone can take a Milky Way picture at all, is amazing.

I've been shooting Google phones with HDR+ algorithms in them since the Nexus 5x. In my experience, it's not worth trying to process the raw manually, as the phone's computational ability is ...

Even more than this, mirrorless have the shutter open whenever you're looking in the viewfinder or on the rear screen. DSLRs only open the shutter during exposure, so the sensor is covered almost ...

I went to APS-C. For me that's the sweet spot of IQ vs size/weight and cost. My APS-C is noticably better in dynamic range and ability to lift shadows, etc. However M43 had a great lens selection ...

Google camera comes on Pixel phones. I don't believe it's officially available for any other phones. People have reverse engineered and tweaked this app for other phones (now called "GCAM" and you ...

Canon would never have done this in the old days. They're feeling the competition from Sony.

Thanks for all this stories so far; this is a great thread.

My EM10ii was a great little camera. I love the size and appearance - not surprising since it looks and sizes so much like my Pentax MX. But the sensor in the Oly just wasn't up to my Sony APSC ...

...and the DSLR is usually a fat heavy pig as well.

Linux realyl doesn't need the desktop as it's already the most used OS in the world: Over 80% of smartphones Almost all wifi routers Many (most?) IOT devices Linux is even on Mars - but Windows is not