Insightful. My excitement comes when I replace my $100 used iPhone with another $100 used iPhone every few years. Guess what: It's just as exciting, and the price stays pretty much the same over time, despite the improvements. Of course the best phone I had was a Nokia Windows phone about a dozen years ago. Zeiss optics. Now that is a phone that I miss. Has Apple improved the camera optics lately?
coldtea•50m ago
They did bump the sensor resolution and size of the tele lens increased the max open aperture of one of the lenses 1-2 models ago.
But "Zeiss optics" itself was also an empty marketing boast of Nokia and other colaborators. Not that different in performance from regular third party or even OEM optics, and the phone's sensor wouldn't be able to show any discernible difference anyway.
DaveZale•24m ago
Well my garden photos turned out great, even after I damaged the optics while working at that garden.
Isn't the iphone photo software lacking somehow? Maybe it was the software? I found a big difference with that phone. Very vivid photos. Not an expert but could it have been some "contrast" setting?
DaveZale•1h ago
coldtea•50m ago
But "Zeiss optics" itself was also an empty marketing boast of Nokia and other colaborators. Not that different in performance from regular third party or even OEM optics, and the phone's sensor wouldn't be able to show any discernible difference anyway.
DaveZale•24m ago
Isn't the iphone photo software lacking somehow? Maybe it was the software? I found a big difference with that phone. Very vivid photos. Not an expert but could it have been some "contrast" setting?