The iPhone Pro Mirrorless Camera Holy Grail Doesn’t Exist
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The iPhone 14 Pro has one of the best cameras on any phone. But could it ever replace a professional mirrorless camera?
For over a decade, professional photographers, enthusiasts and filmmakers have had a phone camera holy grail. What if you could have a truly large image sensor, like you’d find in a high-end mirrorless camera, and a lens mount that could attach to a phone? If that sounds familiar, it’s because everyone from Samsung, Panasonic, Motorola and Sony have in some way flirted with the idea. A month ago, Xiaomi, the world’s third-largest phone maker, rekindled the quest by showing off a prototype of a 12S Pro phone with a 1‑inch camera sensor that also has a lens mount for Leica glass. But we should know better than to get our hopes up again.
00:00 iPhone 14 Series
01:27 Image Sensors
02:46 Computational Photography & Hardware
05:25 Xiaomi Prototype
06:54 Apple
08:27 Leica
08:58 A Decade Long Quest
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Camera phone which can fly. No half-measures!
Problem solved don’t buy anything that Apple makes.
Lego brick as unit of measurement should be the new International standard😂
I think bringing computational photography to more compact mirrorless cameras makes sense as a logical evolution in photography.
Apple is not the kinda company that follows trends they sit bk take in all the landscape of other innovations and yrs later just make it better the Apple way😅
A while back Sony made a line of (DSC-DX) completely self contained camera sensor and lens off the phone. The phone was just the viewfinder and controls via NFC/Bluetooth.
It actually wasn’t a bad product, the product line were all zoom lenses with different zoom ranges, and different price points, but they were really designed as point and shoots rather than DSLR. It opened up possibilities for photography allowing people to take photos in places that a camera normally wouldn’t fit.
This could potentially be the way to create a larger camera sensor without making a larger phone.
Moral of the story… the android market fails at everything.
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Hi, you mentioned Fujifilm x100. Try the Ricoh GR III (x). I love iPhone mini 13, for me the combination of iPhone mini and iPad mini (newer version) works better than a large and heavy iPhone. Therefore I have been using Ricoh GR III (28mm focal length) and now IIIx (40mm focal length). The software for iOS lets you download RAW files directly to your iPhone or iPad. The camera Han an APSC sized sensor and is much more compact than Fujifilm. In my humble opinion, Ricohs are true phone companion.
My vote: pro camera need to be more like phones.
You forgot to discuss the (missed) promise of the Light L16 and Nokia’s phone to follow:)
Thanks for the history review. Yes indeed some amazing technology ten years ago. I personally think smart phones got their marketing 100 percent correct. If you see people using smart phone photography what are they using it for ? Selfies and people pictures, probably 90 percent of your pictures. So in that regards smart phones are perfect. As for scenery shots, I have taken some pretty cool pictures on my iPhone. So if I look at pocket cameras from 10 years ago, smart phones win hands down. As far as professional cameras. I do have one but it is bulky and heavy. Right now I am trying to up grade my iPhone experience with accessories. May not be as good as a professional camera but for 90 percent of the shots ? And one last point 40 years ago I was taking a picture and a person came up to me and said, don’t waste film unless someone special is in the frame. You will never get that perfect shot, so drum roll……buy postcards. Amazing advice. Cheers Vancouver Island Canada
Nature made best camera and we call them eyes
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100% would purchase an Apple standalone pro camera. It’s been their missing product for many years, and would integrate so well into their ecosystem.
I think you mean a single stud LEGO brick, bud.
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Like most people could tell the difference or even need anything but a regular camera; everyone thinks their Spielberg now, and it’s pretty irritating, TOO MANY EGOS out there as it is already.
I don’t want that massive thing on the back of my phone. I rather use the existing set up and a gimbal. A mount like that won’t be compatible with a gimbal.
At that point you might as well get a dedicated DSLR.
Why not make lenses in proportion to the smartphone camera like Moment lenses? It would be even better if the mounting system was standard across many devices/manufacturers.
I also wish Apple would create a dedicated “Pro” camera app for the iPad Pro and iPhone Pro.
Why not make lenses in proportion to the smartphone camera like Moment lenses? It would be even better if the mounting system was standard across many devices/manufacturers.
I also wish Apple would create a dedicated “Pro” camera app for the iPad Pro and iPhone Pro.