Apple Explains What the iPhone 15 Camera Can and Can't Do – and Why
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Pulling back the curtain on design philosophy.
  • asbestos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    “we bring in in a kind of very kind of thoughtful and specific way, the pixels from the 48 megapixels to basically do a detail transfer,” he says.

    What the fuck did he say

    • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca
      8·
      9 months ago

      Detail transfer is something you get by shooting at a higher resolution and then downscaling.

      For example a typical 4k camera will produce a 1080p image that looks significantly more detailed than a 1080p (native) camera (there’s a lot of hand waving here about resolution and lenses but let’s just ignore it all for the sake of the question to on ).

      Sort of like how 35mm films transferred to VHS always looked so much sharper with more detail than video shot on VHS-quality equipment.

      There’s a lot to unpack here but hopefully it’s enough to kickstart clarifying what they’re talking about.

  • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    125·
    9 months ago

    ProRes files, and specifically 4K at 60p requires an attached SSD. All other video modes and all photos captured can only be saved to the iPhone first and then transferred later.

    They just purposefully annoy us don’t they. They have to upsell that storage no matter what.

    • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneEnglish
      91·
      9 months ago

      It seems so arbitrary. Since their developers have already done the legwork to make it work for that specific use-case you could assume that it would be relatively easy to implement it for pretty much everything.

      • valkyre09@lemmy.world
        71·
        9 months ago

        I thought the whole reason for the iPhone 15 having usb2.0 was because it’s using last years chip. Last years chip also had a usb 2.0 controller. I don’t understand why everybody’s freaking out about this

      • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        9 months ago

        They want customers to run out of space. Their storage upsells are ridiculous and they love recurring subscriptions with hard to remove data.

    • porkchop
      62·
      9 months ago

      If you’re a professional shooting 4K 60 ProRes video you likely have the budget to upgrade the storage (or shoot with a real professional grade camera.) it’s highly unlikely you could have a good user experience with 128GB (minus the OS and all your other personal garbage) filling up in minutes shooting in this mode. The lower capacity models aren’t designed for those specific use cases in mind, and it’s cool they’ve found a way around that limitation through the use of external attached storage.

      • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
        34·
        9 months ago

        Yes obviously. It’s usb storage not an innovation. Now let every app write anything to it instead of milking users for only storage where Apple gets a cut… It is gross.

        • porkchop
          61·
          9 months ago

          Every app can write anything to external storage this has existed for a while for the iPad and 3rd party apps.

          Apple is making a cheaper, lower capacity option with the ability to add your own unrestricted storage and you complain about… nothing really.

          • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22·
            9 months ago

            You completely ignored what Apple just said.

            They artificially refuse to support the Camera writing to external storage.

    • Evil_Shrubbery
      22·
      9 months ago

      Great, an SD slot with extra steps (and probably intentional compatibility issues with non-Apple disks).