Samsung Announces 12 Megapixel Phone
and shots still probably won't look as a decent as a good point and shoot
is it just me, or does increasing the pixel count on cellphone cameras only result in larger not-so-great pictures? i mean, some of them do take decent shots. but it seems like even the ultra large megapixel cellphone cameras still don't compare to a real point and shoot camera that's only say 4 or 5 megapixels.
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smittythepig said:
is it just me, or does increasing the pixel count on cellphone cameras only result in larger not-so-great pictures? i mean, some of them do take decent shots. but it seems like even the ultra large megapixel cellphone cameras still don't compare to a real point and shoot camera that's only say 4 or 5 megapixels.
I think they call the term "noise". The higher the pixel count, the more this is an issue.
You are right, a lower point and shoot camera is capable of better quality pictures. Jump into digital SLR's and you have the same deal. A lower megapixel SLR can take better quality pictures sometimes than a point and shoot.
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OMG, I'm so glad that someone else feels this way! They keep increasing the raw number of megapixels that these phone cameras take in, yet it seems like they use the same crappy sensors and the pictures are still just as crappy as the older, lower-megapixel cameras. Instead of a 2 MP picture that's too dark and has lots of noise, you have a 100 MP picture that's also too dark and has lots of noise!
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I think most of it is the lens! you just can't put a good high quality multi element lens on a phone.
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What about N series phones they are rockin a Carl Zeiss(sp?)lens. But yeah most camera phones have horrible len quality so the pics are bad. Raising the megapixel count doesn't do anything but make people think they are getting an ultra nice camera phone when they are not.
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Tmo Slave said:
What about N series phones they are rockin a Carl Zeiss(sp?)lens. But yeah most camera phones have horrible len quality so the pics are bad. Raising the megapixel count doesn't do anything but make people think they are getting an ultra nice camera phone when they are not.
To be honest, while those Nokia's you mentioned do have nice cameras for a phone (heck I own one). Don't kid youself, the Carl Zeiss is just marketing, I don't think they get those lenses out of some foundry in the Reich.
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