iShootLife@alien.topB to PhotographyEnglish · 11 months agoWhat is your “Photography pet peeve”?message-squaremessage-square564fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your “Photography pet peeve”?iShootLife@alien.topB to PhotographyEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square564fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerichmondansox@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoSmartphone companies advertising their 128 megapixel phone camera. They know most people will hear that and think “WOW, 128 MEGAPIXELS!!”
minus-squarezeynabhereee@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThat sounds good in theory until the image is compressed to atoms and looks horrible 💀
minus-squarerichmondansox@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoExactly–they’re banking on most buyers thinking megapixels = quality
minus-squareChairmanmeow42@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoAt least one upside to high mp count on phones, along with computational photography, is that it’ll take 4 pixel shifted photos. Delivers a 32mp photo with less noise and more DR than a small phone sensor could deliver with one photo
Smartphone companies advertising their 128 megapixel phone camera. They know most people will hear that and think “WOW, 128 MEGAPIXELS!!”
That sounds good in theory until the image is compressed to atoms and looks horrible 💀
Exactly–they’re banking on most buyers thinking megapixels = quality
At least one upside to high mp count on phones, along with computational photography, is that it’ll take 4 pixel shifted photos. Delivers a 32mp photo with less noise and more DR than a small phone sensor could deliver with one photo