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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 02:41:06 JST goatsarah

   Curious about just how good the quad bayer "48 megapixel" pro raw camera in the iPhone 16 Pro is, I put it head to head against my 26 megapixel Fuji XE4 with a 16mm lens (stopped down to f/5.6) to closely match field of view. I photographed the same scene on both. Here are 100% crops from both, scaled to the same size.

   Notably, the phone, despite having more pixels, simply does not capture the amount of fine detail that the Fuji captures with only half as many pixels.

   As good as camera phones have got, you simply cannot compete against large photosensors fed by a nice expensive quality piece of glass.

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     Snowgaze ❄️:cravo: (snowgaze@masto.pt)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 03:45:28 JST Snowgaze ❄️:cravo:

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     @goatsarah thanks for this, it's a good incentive for me to stop being lazy and put the proper camera in my bag.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 03:46:36 JST goatsarah

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     • Snowgaze ❄️:cravo:

     @snowgaze I mean, the iPhone is very very good.

     But physics.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 03:53:59 JST goatsarah

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     • Snowgaze ❄️:cravo:

     @snowgaze Agreed

     But even downsampling both to 12 megapixels, the camera image still has more detail:

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     Snowgaze ❄️:cravo: (snowgaze@masto.pt)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 03:54:00 JST Snowgaze ❄️:cravo:

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     @goatsarah I don't even have an iphone, but the phone is always there and makes it so easy to share images, it's tempting to not carry a separate camera, even a pocket one.

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     liilliil 🇫🇯🇱🇨🇱🇧 (liilliil@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 06:29:46 JST liilliil 🇫🇯🇱🇨🇱🇧

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     @goatsarah The image on the left is flatter and less vibrant.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 06:29:46 JST goatsarah

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     • liilliil 🇫🇯🇱🇨🇱🇧
     @liilliil look at the foliage. It’s just mush.
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 06:30:36 JST goatsarah

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     • Nicolas Hoizey
     • Halide
     @nhoizey @halide physics has limits
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     Nicolas Hoizey (nhoizey@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 06:30:37 JST Nicolas Hoizey

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     • Halide

     @goatsarah I wonder if using @halide ´s Process Zero would help improve the iPhone image.

     But I’m pretty sure it can’t be better than the Fuji, anyway.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 06:35:09 JST goatsarah

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     Here’s the full image (from the Fuji), by the way. It’s gonna be butchered by making it a low quality JPEG for sharing here, but this is the image.
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 06:39:31 JST goatsarah

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     And here’s the iPhone image
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     Nile (hairyears@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 07:42:23 JST Nile

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     @goatsarah

     Yup. That's why I traded-up my phone's trusty clip-on lens for a Lumix MFT camera with a Dreamcaster x2 macro lens.

     For my deeply geeky hobby of photographing wild bees.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 07:43:12 JST goatsarah

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     • Nile
     @hairyears that’s a nice bee