Ken Lee Explores the Question “Why Don’t Cameras Use Smartphone Technology”
In this piece from photofocus Ken Lee explores the potential benefits, holdups, and two promising cameras, the Alice Camera and Yongnuo YN455:
Cameras on smartphones can take some astonishingly great photos. Given that they use a considerably smaller sensor, just think what images we could take if this technology were applied to much larger, more detailed sensors found in mirrorless and DSLR cameras. Just think what it might look like if we applied that to all that amazing glass. Computational photography would no longer have to battle the physics of smaller sensors and tiny lenses.
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