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Cameras and chips are identical, however the Pro gives you the Telephoto lens. (That’s the “third” lens on Pro.)
Actually, it’s the ultra wide lens that is unique to the pro.
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I'm not really sure what you are talking about. An advertisement of what? Ultra wide lenses? The author is a photographer who writes about being excited to now have the ability to carry an ultra wide lense - something that has exited in the photography world for decades - as part of his phone. He then write a review about the performance of this lense. Nothing about this is even close to being an advertisement.
To use a word review, I expect at least an attempt to be objective. The article doesn't feel that way at all, even more if you actually shoot at least as a hobby, ie with some APS-C or fullframe. Discussing whether he is just subjectively biased towards Apple or outright paid is already kind of moot point
How could anyone read this without knowing it's an advertisement: "today I’m just as thrilled to be putting an entirely new Ultra Wide lens in my pocket. It gives us another format to tell the story, another perspective to visualize, and a better rounded tool for doing our best creative work."
The replies to this observation are hilarious. The "article" is as marketingy as it gets. It's blatantly obvious. But noo, "I don't know what you mean", "you sound mad" haha.
While the article may well serve as a function of marketing because some pro photographer got a loner from Apple and wrote up a gushing review. I don't believe the word "advertisement" holds water.
I think this comment said it best: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21016402
Its amazing to me that the smartphone wars are now just about cameras.... and more broadly content generation. It also amazes me that everyone's is wooed over these iPhone specs. I've had my OnePlus 7T Pro for a few months now. Most of the top-line specs match or beat the new iPhone. Nightscape on the OnePlus is also amazing - takes great low light photos. Seems like iPhone has been chasing some of the more advanced…
I love my Pixel 2's camera, it shoots gorgeous pictures, but I'm seriously considering downsizing my phone significantly. I'd love to have a nearly-dumb-phone but... can't give up the camera.
If someone sold a standalone camera that is as portable and as good, I would take it and a dumb-phone in a minute.
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Stockholm Syndrome? But yes, it's good that you were able to see it. I find marketing unethical, most people don't even realize that they are being advertised to.
> I find marketing unethical That’s a strange view. Taken to an extreme, that would be a restaurant without an exterior sign, menus, or even a waiter explaining the food. You would literally know nothing about any product or service without marketing. Marketing is the act of “bringing a product to market.” Marketing isn’t advertising. A farmer displaying tomatoes on a table at a farmers market is marketing. A farmer…
What if things are not prove able? Like "most secure", but their metric is fastest patching. It's not actually secure, but they have logic.
Technically true, but intentionally misleading.
I don't suggest getting caught up in the Innocence of having a brick and mortar sign. This is not what we worry about.
What do we learn from a beer commercial showing hot girls? Or a tech commercial showing people dancing. These are feelings unrelated to the product.
These specific examples don't scratch the surface. The best marketing, you don't see.
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Cameras and chips are identical, however the Pro gives you the Telephoto lens. (That’s the “third” lens on Pro.)
Actually, it’s the ultra wide lens that is unique to the pro.
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Stockholm Syndrome? But yes, it's good that you were able to see it. I find marketing unethical, most people don't even realize that they are being advertised to.
> I find marketing unethical That’s a strange view. Taken to an extreme, that would be a restaurant without an exterior sign, menus, or even a waiter explaining the food. You would literally know nothing about any product or service without marketing. Marketing is the act of “bringing a product to market.” Marketing isn’t advertising. A farmer displaying tomatoes on a table at a farmers market is marketing. A farmer…
We can hardly imagine such bliss.
Pop quiz: does anybody imagine marketing or advertising would exist in a) paradise, b) utopia, c) Heaven?
> A farmer buying billboard space with a photo of his tomatoes is advertising. There isn’t anything unethical about either practice.
Plastering every available surface by a road or in a common area, with adverts is tragedy of the commons material. How dare people litter like that, taking away our collective view of the world and replacing it to their advantage without our consent?
Its amazing to me that the smartphone wars are now just about cameras.... and more broadly content generation. It also amazes me that everyone's is wooed over these iPhone specs. I've had my OnePlus 7T Pro for a few months now. Most of the top-line specs match or beat the new iPhone. Nightscape on the OnePlus is also amazing - takes great low light photos. Seems like iPhone has been chasing some of the more advanced…
What I want to know is whether there are any phone-sized stand-alone cameras that can compete with any of the modern amazing phone cameras. I love my Pixel 2's camera, it shoots gorgeous pictures, but I'm seriously considering downsizing my phone significantly. I'd love to have a nearly-dumb-phone but... can't give up the camera. If someone sold a standalone camera that is as portable and as good, I would take it and…
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I feel for all camera manufacturers. Why isn't there a Canon or Nikon or Sony cloud service where photos are sent to? Why haven't the big camera companies embraced computation in their cameras? Do DSLR bodies even have GPS capabilities for tagging photos? It feels like there's no innovation in the camera space outside of Apple and Google.
Very few DSLR bodies have GPS capability built in. This is kind of stupid because integrating a modern GNSS receiver would have only a trivial impact on size, weight, cost, and battery life. The odd thing is that GPS is somewhat common on much cheaper compact cameras. Some of DSLR manufacturers do offer fragile, awkward GPS accessories that you can plug in externally. And they generally provide some sort of geo-taggi…