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iPhones solve the camera angle by changing the position of the pupil in software instead.
Which versions of iphones do this?
It's a Facetime exclusive, though - no API so other videoconferencing apps can't use that.
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I never understood bigger and more numerous camera bumps until I used optical zoom and took photos at night. Image quality with thick lenses is incomparably superior to that of thin lenses and 3 image sensors collect 3x as many photons as 1 so you don't have to hold the phone still for such a long time. Ideally the entire backside of my phone would be lenses
and your 1500€ phone still sucks compared to my 500€ DSLR, lol
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Yes but I have my iPhone everywhere and the pictures the 15 pro max takes are beyond ‘good enough’. Even the zoom is pretty good nowadays. Often the choice isn’t iPhone photo or DSLR photo it’s iPhone or no photo at all. It’s a right faff getting the DSLR out and carrying it around. I brought mine to NYC over Xmas and ended up using my phone mostly. Also no one I know prints photos out, they look at them on their pho…
I tried to go on holidays with my dslr… what a pain. So heavy (unless you buy a $3000 mirrorless) for photos I never print and the times I print them no one ever take the time to look at them. They stay in a closet until thrown out. The quality from my iPhone is not that great as a 4K monitor wallpaper compared to my DSLR. But given the fact that it weights nothing and on holidays the iPhone allows me to text, use GP…
New technology is fun and all, but even decade old digital cameras are more than good enough for good holiday snaps that you might want to crop and print.
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and your 1500€ phone still sucks compared to my 500€ DSLR, lol
For the everyday needs of the average non-enthusiast consumer, I'd argue that an iPhone is simply better than a DSLR or mirrorless - not just more portable or more convenient, but capable of producing reliably better images. Sure, the DSLR is the obvious choice if you're a serious photographer, but most people aren't serious photographers. If they buy a DSLR or mirrorless camera, they're going to use the kit lens and…
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Yes but I have my iPhone everywhere and the pictures the 15 pro max takes are beyond ‘good enough’. Even the zoom is pretty good nowadays. Often the choice isn’t iPhone photo or DSLR photo it’s iPhone or no photo at all. It’s a right faff getting the DSLR out and carrying it around. I brought mine to NYC over Xmas and ended up using my phone mostly. Also no one I know prints photos out, they look at them on their pho…
I tried to go on holidays with my dslr… what a pain. So heavy (unless you buy a $3000 mirrorless) for photos I never print and the times I print them no one ever take the time to look at them. They stay in a closet until thrown out. The quality from my iPhone is not that great as a 4K monitor wallpaper compared to my DSLR. But given the fact that it weights nothing and on holidays the iPhone allows me to text, use GP…
Yeah it sounds like a great option to place a camera invisibly in the middle top half of your screen so you can actually look a person in the eye when videoconferencing. No more weirdly looking down or to the side for everyone. I'm sure it can be used for creepiness as well but I see the benefits too.
iPhones solve the camera angle by changing the position of the pupil in software instead.
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Zeiss multifunctional smart glass Product page: https://www.zeiss.com/oem-solutions/products-solutions/multi... NASA/ESA mention: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zeiss_automotive-augmentedrea...
This looks really cool. Could you put a polarizer on this and have that filler out the other side of the display, so a smart window is one way visible? That could make smart glasses and headsets much better.
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I agree with everything you said, but the example on the CES floor does not have an apparent tint.
I assure you it is semi opaque. A one way mirror is a primitive example of this. You can make the reflection increasingly transparent but it will be tinted up until the point it doesn't reflect anything. It may not be noticeably visible to the human eye under most lighting conditions, though.
> I assure you it is semi opaque
> It may not be __noticeably visible__ to the human eye under most lighting conditions, though.
I'm not sure you two are disagreeing. Seems like you're just reinforcing their point. I mean if someone said glass is opaque and their evidence is that you can't see through glass and your evidence is to point at UV light... well... you'd be technically correct but you're talking from a different ballpark.