We all know smartphone killed compact camera sales, but nowdays smartphones are using AI technique to generate more perfect images. And with passing time these techs are improving so well, that in near future smartphones will give tough competition to interchangeable lens camera market.
products used in the shootout – Canon EOS RP (B&H) | Google pixel 4 (B&H)
Image captured from Canon EOS RP
Image Captured via Google Pixel 4 Smartphone
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Best of both world
Why not even a single camera maker step out of box and adopt adnroid OS for their camera and spend some time and money in R&D of AI based customized camera apps for their system cameras.
If any camera maker combine the goodness of large camera sensor and AI based camera modes + image decoding algorithms as we have in smartphones, then for sure we will have best tool in our hands.
Zeiss ZX1 is a excellent attempt to create smartcameras
We all know Zeiss ZX1 is a smartcamera which uses android OS and customized camera app. But it cost too high and not in the reach of day to day shooters. We need a new series of smartcameras that can uplift the performance of existing cameras.
What will happen in next Five years ?
Do you have any idea what will happen in next five years if smartphone makers improves their AI to next level and introduce more complex and high quality camera modules behind smartphones ?
Do share your thoughts with us
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Yeah, these keep showing up.
Bottom line today is that, if you don’t know how to take a top-notch photo, the smartphone has a bunch of AI agents to replace you need for a photographer’s brain. If you know how to use a camera, and in particular, how to adapt to difficult shooting situations, the phone doesn’t stand a chance. And that’s before you dig into the various “liberties” the smartphone AIs take with color, dynamic range, and basically, objective reality.
It is absolutely a guaranteed thing that if you hand an experienced smartphone photographer a high-end camera, that person will have no idea how to use it. It’s sad.
Sure, the phone’s level of AI delivers better photos for the 99.95% of the popluation of planet Earth who do not wish to actually learn photograpy. But while that phone shoorter can learn and hone many aspects of composition, they can’t replace 10, 20, 30 years of technical photographic experience with a few months or years of “it makes all the decisions”.
And so this kind of test proves nothing other than the person handed the DSLR or mirrorless ILC to take the shot didn’t know what they were doing. Is it shocking that smartphone pundits and vloggers would know a few less-especienced big camera photographers?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. It is bleak, pitiful, pathetic, … in short it will be done.
From my point of view with any of the EXMOR Back lite CMOS (BSI) sensors, the difference would have been infinitely smaller.
Dicen que una imagen vale más que mil palabras. Es desolador, penoso, lastimoso, patético,…en fin que se le va hacer.
Desde mi punto de vista con cualquiera de los sensores EXMOR Back lite CMOS ( BSI ), la diferencia habría sido infinitamente menor.
The phone picture is heavily smeared, i.e far too much noise reduction has been used, ya could get the same result/if not better if you were to overdose the picture noise from the Canon RP Camera with say as example, using a tool like Topaz Denoise, the camera phone don`t convince me, give me a `real mirrorless camera any day, i hate trying to take a picture with a slippery, fiddly camera-phone, yuk!!
@Dave Haynie
Do people really need 10,20,30 years to get experience how to set shutterspeed and/or proper stabilization mode, etc.?