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genuinely dont understand the logic behind having that many cameras. Surely it would just be better to have a singular better sensor, and some additional hardware for it?
I believe the extra cameras are fixed optical zoom. The physical limitations of the phones dimensions means you can't have 1x-10x zoom, because the lens would need to move forward and backward like on a real camera lens. So you've got a 1x, 3x, 10x, fish-eye, etc.
Edit: I should add that Motorola came out with a hardware attached camera by Zeiss. It was okay, but now I had to keep up with a bag that held all my attachments.
i mean, size constraints, sure. But camera bumps ONLY get bigger, and more unreasonable. Remember the iphone 6? little itty bitty nub. That's not the case anymore.
apple? (Idk, i dont care tbh) recently unveiled the incredible technology known as "two mirrors" in order to abuse the dimensions of an iphone to get a longer focal length.
Even then, surely you could just put a bigger, higher resolution sensor on it, and then use digital zooming instead. That way it at least pretends to have features. Even then why bother adding more features, it's a phone, all it's going to do is be a nuisance at family gatherings. Because for some reason people HAVE to take pictures of everything.
Digital zooming fucking sucks though and is only as good as the quality of the optics/the sensor resolution. At that point you might as well go schmitt cassegrain instead, especially when you’re taking the top shelf binned sensors anyway.