Samsung leapfrogs Nikon with Galaxy camera, 16mp 21x optical zoom and jellybean
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Re: Samsung leapfrogs Nikon with Galaxy camera, 16mp 21x optical zoom and jellybean
#2The price for the first phone: $1 billion
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Re: Samsung leapfrogs Nikon with Galaxy camera, 16mp 21x optical zoom and jellybean
#416 megapixels packed into a 1/2.3" sensor? Ouch. That's the smallest sensor size on this image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sensor_sizes_overlaid_ins...
I hope DPReview does a review on this camera -- I suspect it's going to produce extremely poor photos.
Re: Samsung leapfrogs Nikon with Galaxy camera, 16mp 21x optical zoom and jellybean
#516 megapixels packed into a 1/2.3" sensor? Ouch. That's the smallest sensor size on this image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sensor_sizes_overlaid_ins... I hope DPReview does a review on this camera -- I suspect it's going to produce extremely poor photos.
>> I suspect it's going to produce extremely poor photos.
Relative to what? Compared to an SLR? Sony's RX100? The iPhone 4? Other 1/2.3" cameras?
Keep in mind that a 1/2.3" sensor is still significantly larger than something like, say the 1/3.2" sensor in the iPhone 4. Scaled to real-world image sizes (i.e. Facebook, etc.) the downsampled images will probably be good enough for most snapshots.
Re: Samsung leapfrogs Nikon with Galaxy camera, 16mp 21x optical zoom and jellybean
#6It's a bit early to say that it leapfrogs. Any camera is as good as its lens is good. And Nikon makes it better.
Re: Samsung leapfrogs Nikon with Galaxy camera, 16mp 21x optical zoom and jellybean
#7Interesting that camera get the latest jellybean before Galaxy phones. I guess next up will be a Galaxy TV. And Galaxy fridge that auto order to restock your pizza and beer.
Re: Samsung leapfrogs Nikon with Galaxy camera, 16mp 21x optical zoom and jellybean
#8It's a bit early to say that it leapfrogs . Any camera is as good as its lens is good. And Nikon makes it better.
>> Any camera is as good as its lens is good.
That might have been true in the film days, but these days sensor quality is just as important as the lens.
>> And Nikon makes it better
I don't know if this is particularly true about their lower end point and shoots, and that's where I would categorize their Android camera.
Re: Samsung leapfrogs Nikon with Galaxy camera, 16mp 21x optical zoom and jellybean
#916 megapixels packed into a 1/2.3" sensor? Ouch. That's the smallest sensor size on this image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sensor_sizes_overlaid_ins... I hope DPReview does a review on this camera -- I suspect it's going to produce extremely poor photos.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/digital-camera-se...
this page has a convenient calculator for diffraction limit of a sensor given it's MPix and dimensions. it shows that a 1/2" sensor with 16MPix becomes diffraction limited at f/2.7, so this slightly bigger one would be limited at around f/3. lens is specced at f/2.8-5.9. results out of anything more than the widest end might be less than spectacular...
Re: Samsung leapfrogs Nikon with Galaxy camera, 16mp 21x optical zoom and jellybean
#10I'm not convinced that a point-and-shoot camera can be considered "pro". Thumbs-up for manual exposure settings and the inclusion of Android, but a single f/2.8-5.9 lens is not going to be suitable in a lot of situations. I also don't see a flash (or flash mount) anywhere, which would make it annoying to take photos in a dark bar or restaurant.
Alternatively, I think it would be neat to apply some of these features to Nikon/Canon's existing DSLR lineups, eg. having wifi/4G connectivity on a DSLR that didn't require an $800 attachment.