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Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test

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  1. ThePhysicist · · focus · HN ↗
    The Huawei model just uses AI based upscaling and filtering which is why the images look so sharp when zoomed in, that's not depicting reality though... You can also zoom into the moon on the night sky with these cameras and easily "resolve" details that are optically impossible to resolve with the camera lens as they are beyond the Abbe limit. At the very least they should compare RAW data in these posts, not the AI scaled slop most of these cameras produce nowadays.
    1. FireBeyond · · focus · HN ↗
      > not the AI scaled slop most of these cameras produce nowadays

      As someone who has only been an Apple user for phones (and Canon, Sony and Leica elsewhere), AI or otherwise, Apple is not immune to relatively heavy post processing in software. They're certainly not inserting moons, but even the raw sensor data has had some uplift to it.

      1. Gigachad · · focus · HN ↗
        I still think there is a line in the sand between post processing which is mostly about fixing the exposure/noise, and straight up AI up scaling which hallucinates details.

        And I fear the more tech reviewers do these pixel peeping side by side comparisons between phones, the greater the incentive to cheat.

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