Jokes aside, camera arrays are actually an excellent way to improve image capture while maintaining a small form factor. There’s a reason many bugs have many eyes. It’s more reliant of software to resolve the image, but it allows more information to come in without increasing the lens size.
Phone herpes.
We have come full circle!
You know, one sensor with a rotating lens selector might actually make sense?
I’ve been dreaming of that for like 10 years but nah, we only get many shitty sensors instead.
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Why do phones have so many cameras? What for?
Because variable-zoom isn’t possible at the thickness we tolerate in phones, so they need to add multiple fixed-zoom cameras
In addition to having different lenses, as others have mentioned, having multiple sensors enables a bunch of neat computational photography techniques.
Many camera for make many photo
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I just got that one with the 4 camera spots recently, its the oneplus 12
I mostly got it because its fast and has a good battery life, but it also has decent cameras ig, although most people say the google pixels have better cameras
Anyways, it has a normal camera, a wide angle camera, a 3x zoom camera, and the last one is not a camera but an ambient light sensor and 13 channel light sensor (I think? its hard to find info on this actually)
People were saying it would have a full 12 channel actual image sensor there with a decently high resolution, but I guess that didn’t end up happening
its the oneplus 12
So the 13?
No, the 13 doesn’t have that shaded area to the left of the camera bump
The joke was 1+12=13.
I have no idea either. The camera on any smart phone I’ve ever had is a wasted feature. I would rather have a faster processor or more memory or better battery. So I always try to buy the phone with the worst camera to save money.
I guess the question now is why does an ultra slim camera have a phone?
i dunno, but what is funny to me is that I’ve never seen an actual photographic camera with more than one lens
That’s because telephoto zoom is possible on photographic cameras.
I see you got the biblically accurate camera
Most actual photographic cameras have some optics inside that can physically move to change the zoom level, something smartphones don’t have space for.
Smartphone cameras are (bad and) very limited. Their sensor is very small and their lenses have to be flat, very small in diameter and cant have moving parts (maybe the aperture moves not sure). All this means they capture very little light on a ultra dense sensor (dense sensors have bleed where one pixel is influenced by the interference of the photons hitting the pixel next to it).
So they cheat. Wherever they can. They often take multiple pictures at the same time using multiple cameras and overlay them digitally (black/white and color). And of course they need different cameras with different lenses because they can’t have a zoom (moving parts). They also heavily edit the pictures without ever telling the user.
Often a smartfone image will look better than an unedited image taken by a 5000$+ camera. At least until you zoom in and look at the colors
Anything requiring depth (3D video or photo) requires 2 cameras.
Most photographic cameras have interchangeable lenses as well. Instead of having interchangeable lenses on something that needs to be durable like a smartphone, they can ship with multiple fixed lenses.
And like modern reproductions of cassette players, I would expect this to be way shittier than the originals
putting an extra camera increased sales?
why lets add all the cameras then for infinite sales!
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