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I distinctly remember working with grad students in 2006 whose project was "collaborating with Nokia to make super high quality cameras in cell phones". At the time, I laughed inside and thought, "ha, it's gonna be tough to beat a D2Hs and a decent set of lenses." I was very wrong. Image sensors have come a long way incredibly fast.
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Personally, I buy cheap Motorola G4/G5/G6, etc phones. $150 or less, new. They are fast enough, and work well enough for me. And, cheap enough that buying next year's model when it comes out isn't a problem. And no anxiety about dropping it.
Yah, I've been doing the - buy a generation or two back of the flag ship release. Just bought the LG g5 which was their flagship 2 years ago, amazing phone.
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Based on EXIF data that image was taken with an iPhone X back in October. Which means the OS was 12.0 which had a widely reported bug where the image processing was interpolating images incorrectly. This has been fixed in 12.1. Would be interesting to see the photo taken again to see if the quality has improved. Also why are you comparing an iPhone X against the Pixel 3. The iPhone Xs has had significant improvements…
Something I've been trying to figure out without much luck is how different the raw images are between the iPhone X and XS. Any idea where I could find a comparison? The reason I ask is because feature such as smart HDR have shown great promise but I don't know how much is software and how much is sensor performance.
https://blog.halide.cam/iphone-xs-why-its-a-whole-new-camera...
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> A cursory glance shows the Pixel 3's camera the best of the bunch, sometimes by far. I am surprised that you drew that conslusion from the review. I got the impression that iPhone and Samsung flagships consistently beat the Pixel 3 in daylight and normal light shots. They just have better hardware. He stated multiple times that iPhone is a better representation of the actual scene. However the night mode is obvious…
Yeah, looking for I should qualify in overall presentation yes. My comment was more a remark on the de-noise Apple's default camera app applies. Again, I'd check out that image I linked to. At 100% zoom the ground detail is quite literally erased from the iPhone X image, to the point where it looks like a stylized art filter was applied. The Pixel at least retains detail in such places (also, for example, on the roof…
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Yah, I've been doing the - buy a generation or two back of the flag ship release. Just bought the LG g5 which was their flagship 2 years ago, amazing phone.
I wouldn't mind doing that but the security update patch problem for Android phones that suddenly stop getting them is a nightmare.
I've looked for (but can not find) some graphs showing what a 5W vs 10W wireless charge over time actually looks like. I assume it's non-linear, and it's not a 2x factor at any battery %. For all the talk it's odd there's no good actual numbers though.
Anyone considering this phone and Project Fi, there's a really good offer going one if you get two of these and get a friend to sign on to Fi JUST for a month, you get $799 in credits. Really good if you're already paying monthly Fi.
We did more research and it looked like we could still get this offer as long as we get a new line for 30 days. Seemed a bit crazy but there were people on Reddit who had confirmed this with customer service.
So again ready to place order and there is new post on Reddit where it claimed that customer service is now saying you cannot deactivate the 3rd line. Time to do more research.
Friend backed out. I am waiting for people who bought extra phone for the deal to start selling their phones. Or maybe I will wait for Black Friday deals or get LG G7 ($400 after $150 service credit).
I wish Google had released it for just $400 without BOGO deal. This whole thing was such a waste of time.
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I don't think the price from private seller should count, so yeah, That BB's price ($700) should be the one used for comparison.
B&H for 600: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1406055-REG/samsung_s...
The NA model is still $720.
Unfortunately headphone jack is still the dealbreaker for me.
I distinctly remember working with grad students in 2006 whose project was "collaborating with Nokia to make super high quality cameras in cell phones". At the time, I laughed inside and thought, "ha, it's gonna be tough to beat a D2Hs and a decent set of lenses." I was very wrong. Image sensors have come a long way incredibly fast.
I am considering selling my camera. To be fair my 500$ lens on a $1000 consistently takes better looking portraits (I know it is subjective) than a phone .. but my phone already takes good pictures and is always with me. It also automatically updloads my pictures to google photos, which is both creepy and incredibly useful.