Curious about just how good the quad bayer "48 megapixel" pro raw camera in the iPhone 16 Pro is, I put it head to head against my 26 megapixel Fuji XE4 with a 16mm lens (stopped down to f/5.6) to closely match field of view. I photographed the same scene on both. Here are 100% crops from both, scaled to the same size.
Notably, the phone, despite having more pixels, simply does not capture the amount of fine detail that the Fuji captures with only half as many pixels.
As good as camera phones have got, you simply cannot compete against large photosensors fed by a nice expensive quality piece of glass.
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Unknown parent • •@Snowgaze ❄️:cravo: I mean, the iPhone is very very good.
But physics.
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Unknown parent • •@Snowgaze ❄️:cravo: Agreed
But even downsampling both to 12 megapixels, the camera image still has more detail:
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I wonder if using @halide ´s Process Zero would help improve the iPhone image.
But I’m pretty sure it can’t be better than the Fuji, anyway.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •exactly
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Yup. That's why I traded-up my phone's trusty clip-on lens for a Lumix MFT camera with a Dreamcaster x2 macro lens.
For my deeply geeky hobby of photographing wild bees.
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