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There is a much better way of doing this which some professional cameras do called pixel shift. It shifts the sensor a tiny amount in between multiple exposures to compose in to an absurdly high resolution image. The downside is it only works on a tripod since you need the camera perfectly still.

The obvious issue with multiple cameras at different focal lengths is they won't all cover the frame of the widest one so only parts of the image will be sharper.

But if this matters to you, just get a full frame camera. Any 33MP full frame will blow away a 200MP phone camera in sharpness and detail.

by magarnicle8 hours ago|

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I wasn't thinking so much about resolution, but rather all the other things it might allow. Re-focusing after taking it, for example. 3D by default, since the width of a phone is basically the distance between your eyes. A host of other things the much-more-high-powered CPU on the phone can do compared to a camera.

by Gigachad6 hours ago|

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For refocusing, you can achieve this with focus bracketing, the camera takes the same photo at different focus points in quick succession. The reason phone default camera apps don't have this as a feature is because their depth of field is so massive that pretty much everything is in focus all the time anyway. But it's a feature on dedicated cameras.

>3D by default

This actually is an option in the ios camera app if you switch to spacial mode. Though I think the only use case is they look slightly nicer on the Apple vision pro. And also the iphone can just fake 3D on any photo with AI.

If there was a compelling reason to cover the phone in more cameras and sell it as a feature, Samsung would have done it by now.

by magarnicle2 hours ago|

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The Apple spatial photos are enabled by the depth camera, right? Which is kind of my point - more cameras mean more features!

> If there was a compelling reason to cover the phone in more cameras and sell it as a feature, Samsung would have done it by now.

I dunno, they generally tend to be a follower, not a leader. Even their new foldable is generally accepted as a tactical manoeuver ahead of Apple's foldable.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_(company)

Good review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3uUozW4zHc

by magarnicle8 hours ago|

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That definitely looks like what I imagined.