Reply to post: Re: "they've missed the more human advancements and ergonomics"

Re: "they've missed the more human advancements and ergonomics"

heyrick

"The pinch to zoom basically throws away the edges of the image and scales up the middle. You're no better off than if you just took a normal (un-zoomed) photo and scaled it up with your favourite image editor."

While I agree a phone camera can't match a real camera, to be honest, the fake zoomed final image will be a little bit better than just taking the middle of the image via your fav photo editor.

The camera will shoot in RAW, take the middle bit and convert to your fake zoomed jpg for output. If you just took the original un zoomed jpg it produced and cropped it for the middle bit, when you saved it more jpg artefacts will be added (it's how jpg works) and the quality will be lower overall. You would notice the problem if you then zoomed in on your pc or mac to see some detail you liked in the image.

When people say their phone takes great pictures, they should try comparing them to ones taken be a real camera at the same time - and not necessarily a super expensive pro camera.