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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
The only benefit of the super high resolutions is to let you crop the photo or make really big prints. The big limit on a 4K cell phone camera is the lens quality and artifacts on the tiny little camera sensor.
Any dedicated digital camera with a multi part lens will have better quality than a cell phone.
Our Nikon D3 is just a 12 mega pixel camera but the sensor is the size of the 35 mm piece of film. It will beat the pants off of any cell phone photo especially in lower light conditions.
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I completely agree. Smartphone cameras can't hold a candle to a decent (even consumer level) DSLR like the Nikon D3XXX or the Cannon 3D. (I have a Nikon D3200 that I very much enjoy using).
But for the Samsung folks to cram a 4K camera into their phone is quite interesting. They will rely on software and storage to compensate for the small sensor and glass.
That said, I was actually surprised that the Apple 5S's camera can open up to f2.2. Again, not as good a lens as a DSLR, and a tiny, tiny sensor, but the smart phone companies have come a long way, and have taken a huge chunk out of the pocket camera industry. On those terms, the smartphone cameras and their dominance in the low end camera market is just as revolutionary as the move was from film to digital for the consumer segment.
Ain't tech grand?
-Z