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Arthands

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ILikeFeet

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flagship phones starting to look like tryptophobic messes
 
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nsilvias

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imagine how good phone battery life would be if we didnt keep making them razer thin
 

Inugami

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"How can we justify an additional 30% cost to this year's models...?" "No one liked our folding..." "What about more cameras?"
 

Pwnz

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Meh, as long as it doesn't cost more. The 3 lenses is nice because you can get passable point and shoot in dim lighting and 3 different focal lengths. I guess 5 lenses for even better low light?

Regardless, fuck the S11 I'd it removes the headphone Jack. That's actually useful.
 
Oct 28, 2017
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S7 Edge still holding down the fort over here

Why the heck do people upgrade their phones so much? Mine calls, texts, plays music, and has GPS. What else I need?
 

NovumVeritas

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Yeah. Which is definitely better than the off entered punch-hole on the S10, but I prefer the OP7T style teardrop notch best. I don't need a millimeter of space above the camera.
I wonder why Samsung is going back to the punch hole. The S10 camera design seems to be off putting a lot of customers.
Tear drop design looks really slick I agree.
 

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Meh, as long as it doesn't cost more. The 3 lenses is nice because you can get passable point and shoot in dim lighting and 3 different focal lengths. I guess 5 lenses for even better low light?
the low light stuff is basically a combination of long exposure, clever stabilization and computational photography. Even the iPhone 11 pro can only use 2 of the 3 lenses for this. 5 lenses is really crazy. Like a bit bar who likes to switch lenses in a DSLR will carry 3 lenses for it usually - after that you're carrying multiple cameras like a wedding photographer. I will be really curious to see how they justify 5 lenses, the key will be the lowest and highest focal lengths across the 5, because I am hard pressed to think of what the fuck they are doing beyond ultra wide, wide, and telephoto

I mean the iPhone has max 4 if you include front camera + Face ID sensors (2x IR camera) so maybe it's counted that way or something. Maybe they have a stereo selfie camera
 

0VERBYTE

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This is getting ridiculous.

Soon the back of all phones will look like a damn connect four game.
 

F34R

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Goodness. I thought the three on the newest iPhones was bad enough. That's as far as I'm willing to go though, IF I even make it there.
 

ILikeFeet

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phone hardware is at a point where I don't think it's really necessary to buy flagship stuff. so they can miss me with these ugly-ass designs
 

Ringten

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Samsung has been nailing it imo. Proper slick phones. However it's about time someone makes a proper battery: I need 10 hours SoT
 

bsigg

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I'm curious if this will be one of the first phones with the Snapdragon 865
 

Pwnz

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the low light stuff is basically a combination of long exposure, clever stabilization and computational photography. Even the iPhone 11 pro can only use 2 of the 3 lenses for this. 5 lenses is really crazy. Like a bit bar who likes to switch lenses in a DSLR will carry 3 lenses for it usually - after that you're carrying multiple cameras like a wedding photographer. I will be really curious to see how they justify 5 lenses, the key will be the lowest and highest focal lengths across the 5, because I am hard pressed to think of what the fuck they are doing beyond ultra wide, wide, and telephoto

I mean the iPhone has max 4 if you include front camera + Face ID sensors (2x IR camera) so maybe it's counted that way or something. Maybe they have a stereo selfie camera

Low light is all about capturing light. I did a bit of astrophotography a couple of times in west Texas by getting a few dozen 30 second exposures at f/1.4 and then stacked/aligned them in photoshop because ya know the earth is rotating, and the end result is a colorful milky way disk. It's dark enough out there that with naked eyes adjusted to the dark you can see where the disk is.

So with 5 cheap ass lenses you can shotgun your way to an okay night shot, similar to astrophotography.
 

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Low light is all about capturing light. I did a bit of astrophotography a couple of times in west Texas by getting a few dozen 30 second exposures at f/1.4 and then stacked/aligned them in photoshop because ya know the earth is rotating, and the end result is a colorful milky way disk. It's dark enough out there that with naked eyes adjusted to the dark you can see where the disk is.

So with 5 cheap ass lenses you can shotgun your way to an okay night shot, similar to astrophotography.
uh... maybe? Like if it can somehow stitch together multiple focal lengths and fix the parallax then I guess so but this seems like a crazy way to go vs just having a bigger lens, which I recognize is tough on a phone but seriously, astrophotography on a phone is crazy. Need that big glass...

I get what you are saying but I've done a lot of this, the computational stuff is fascinating but these shots are probably not landing on reddit anytime soon.Lens size is a real issue. I need a motor on my tripod just to compensate as you have no doubt used
 

Pwnz

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uh... maybe? Like if it can somehow stitch together multiple focal lengths and fix the parallax then I guess so but this seems like a crazy way to go vs just having a bigger lens, which I recognize is tough on a phone but seriously, astrophotography on a phone is crazy. Need that big glass...

I get what you are saying but I've done a lot of this, the computational stuff is fascinating but these shots are probably not landing on reddit anytime soon.Lens size is a real issue. I need a motor on my tripod just to compensate as you have no doubt used

I did astrophotography on DSLR, for phones I'm just talking about point and shoot of people, pets, food, and the random shit people take picture of. Though the multi-exposure post processing is the same concept. No way a smartphone could capture the milky way disk...well you could but it would take thousands of shots and photoshop.