(18 May 2022, 22:28 )Like Ra Wrote:

(18 May 2022, 22:23 )Culmor Wrote: I had no idea that  'Street View 360 photos' works miles from anywhere. I live and learn.
It makes GPS even more worrying.

Why? Isn't knowing your position anywhere a good thing? Isn't it good that you can look around in places you've never been at, and, possibly, will never ever be?

(19 May 2022, 05:41 )Lancer Wrote: I only change devices every 4 or more years (looking more like 6 to 8 years now) 

(19 May 2022, 05:41 )Lancer Wrote: the decaying apple and android ecosystem

(19 May 2022, 05:41 )Lancer Wrote: creative apps are mad inoperable by stupid software updates which is a whole other can of worms. 

(19 May 2022, 05:41 )Lancer Wrote: In the time since I have seen 6 generations of iPhones come and go and only now are they able to beat my camera at specific focal lengths the designer intended.

(19 May 2022, 05:41 )Lancer Wrote: Also while shooting video is nice and all I really don't know anyone who does it often

(19 May 2022, 05:41 )Lancer Wrote: I have a 2k ultralarge screen and no printer with a high enough dpi

(19 May 2022, 05:41 )Lancer Wrote:  better fps also has significantly diminished returns. (24 fps can't tell the difference)

(19 May 2022, 05:41 )Lancer Wrote: I just hate the newer phones with a burning passion for their increased costs

Quote:As reported by Nikkei Japan (opens in new tab), the President and CEO of Sony Semiconductor Solutions (SSS), Terushi Shimizu, told a business briefing that "we expect that still images [from smartphones] will exceed the image quality of single-lens reflex cameras within the next few years".

Predictions about the demise of DSLR cameras are nothing new – without saying anything explicitly, Canon and Nikon have both admitted that DSLRs are a legacy format by discontinuing some models, such as the Nikon D3500, without replacing them. But Sony's latest statements highlight that phone cameras still have a long way to go before they hit their tech ceiling.

The biggest advances in recent years have come in multi-frame processing, otherwise known as computational photography. But Sony was understandably keen to stress the role that new hardware will play in lifting phone cameras to new photographic heights.

Its prediction that the sensor sizes in high-end phones will double by 2024 is slightly surprising, given that this is limited by factors like lenses. For example, the Sony Xperia Pro-I became Sony's first phone to have a 1-inch sensor last year, but its lens wasn't able to project a large enough image circle to cover the whole of that sensor, so it could only take 12MP photos rather than the native 20MP resolution.

Perhaps more significant is Sony's new stacked CMOS sensor with two-layer transistor pixels, which effectively exposes each pixel to twice as much light as a standard sensor. This sounds like a hardware advance that computational algorithms could definitely get their teeth stuck into in order to boost dynamic range and noise performance.

But given how good the latest phones are at photography, the most noticeable advances over the next few years are likely to be in video. Sony's presentation highlighted this with references to multi-frame processing and its Edge AI platform, which promises to boost both video performance and support for augmented reality apps.