amazing
Let me know when it can go to work for me and I can sit on the couch all day while collecting a paycheck. ‘the camera is supposed to be better’ wow such amazing foresight from such a well-articulated article. Truly courageous to make such a trailblazing statement. Nobody has ever improved a product as a selling point before.
This is a marginal upgrade from the 6 and 7. Megapixel numbers alone don’t really mean anything, and ‘oh that’s cool I guess’ editing tools are meh - nobody does actual editing on their phone. If it could shoot depth-aware photos, or if it was always active with a buffer so you could go back in time X amount and save a photo you’d otherwise missed, or if it could start working to help offset the $900 (7 Pro) price a bit, that would be worthy of ‘amazing’.
When everything is ‘mind-blowing’ and ‘amazing’, nothing is.
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 year ago
My theory is Google etc. focus on cameras so much because reviewers are media people that take a lot of videos and photos… if you want a good review you ship a good camera.
Meanwhile all I want to see as an ordinary user is battery life, size and weight. If I take a photo it’s going on facebook (Well, more like mastodon these days) and any camera phone made in the last 10 years is fine.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I feel you. I went for a pixel 7 so that I can use GrapheneOS, but this thing is a hefty-chonker, and if i am bored at work, the battery will barely make it through the day. My former CCP-branded phone was much lighter and would easily last 2 days with one charge when new.
severien@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can clearly see a qualitative difference between good and bad cameras even onf facebook-sized photos.
S_204@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sure, but for the vast majority of people the difference is completely irrelevant. 4k to 8k doesn’t matter, we’re already in HD.