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1. velcrovan · 1789920121 · focus · HN ↗

   Someone should assemble a chain of iPhone camera review comparison images published over the years, 18 → 17, 17 → 16, 16 → 15 etc. showing how each year's new phone being so much better than the previous year's somehow becomes perceivably bad next to the next year's phone.

   1. Krasnol · 1789920630 · focus · HN ↗

      Could you provide at least one review to support that claim?

      1. eviks · 1789938057 · focus · HN ↗

         > someone should assemble
      2. classified · 1789940176 · focus · HN ↗

         Did you miss your parent comment's sarcasm?
   2. Doohickey-d · 1789968513 · focus · HN ↗

      Youtuber Marques Brownlee did this (as a short). It's actually not so noticeable, it's only once you get to the very oldest phones that it's visibly worse.

      the difference will be in things like low-light, telephoto lenses, video capability, HDR, and lots of other things that don't show up in most photos (including that one)

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jru9Gsz3kJY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jru9Gsz3kJY

      1. rrr_oh_man · 1789983963 · focus · HN ↗

         Only iPhone 4 sticks out, 1 through 17 are all fine.
      2. josephg · 1789987301 · focus · HN ↗

         It&#x27;d be much better if this test was done in low light. The tiny sensors in iphones work fine when there&#x27;s plenty of light around. The real test is how well they do when the you aren&#x27;t sitting in the sun.

         1. OGWhales · 1789996297 · focus · HN ↗

            Indeed, I found the oil-painting effect really rough on certain year iphones in low light&#x2F;when using one of the zoom lenses.
      3. ksec · 1790050480 · focus · HN ↗

         And it sort of reach a plateau where for normal consumer it doesn&#x27;t matter much other than zoom. Which is important to a certain extend.

         I wish there is some tech in the pipeline, that in the next 5 - 10 years we could get decent pictures quality without the huge bump.

      4. butlike · 1790098739 · focus · HN ↗

         The iPhone 1 doesn&#x27;t look THAT bad to me. Also I wonder if its worth 13.6 thousand ($13,600) in phone upgrades over the years?
   3. thewebguyd · 1790007193 · focus · HN ↗

      I&#x27;d suspect the average person won&#x27;t notice much difference (on the main lens) until about iPhone 11 or older, with still photos. Computational image processing does a TON of heavy lifting with these tiny sensors.

      With video OTOH, the improvements are much more noticeable. I also suspect that is why Apple focuses so much on video as its a harder problem to solve and so much easier to differentiate your hardware from competitors.

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