Posted on 01/13/2019 3:46:32 PM PST by dennisw
The $150 handset joins the burgeoning club of handsets offering a 48-megapixel rear camera.
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has unveiled the budget Redmi Note 7, which starts at 999RMB ($150) and features a dual rear camera with 48-megapixel and 5-megapixel sensors.
The Redmi Note 7 is the first phone launched since Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun revealed last week that it would break out Redmi as its own sub-brand, leaving Xiaomi to focus on higher-end phones.
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The Redmi Note 7 sports a 6.3-inch screen in a 19.5:9 screen ratio, with 2,340 x 1080pixels at 409 pixels per inch.
For about $150, you'll get 3GB of RAM and 32GB onboard storage, but it's also available with 4GB RAM and 64GB of storage for $180, and as a 6GB/64GB variant that costs $210.
The screen has a small circular cutout for the front-facing 13-megapixel camera and the fingerprint reader is located on the back. The device has USB-C charging, a 4000mAh battery and supports fast charging.
While the US is still off the cards for Xiaomi, Jun told Bloomberg in an interview today that it will be expanding into more markets in Europe in the coming year.
Jun said demand for smartphones in China is declining but he expects it to pick up once networks support 5G. He wasn't surprised that foreign smartphone brands were struggling in China as local smartphone makers were "more competitive".
Xiaomi has been ramping up its presence in Europe over the past year. According to analyst firm Canalys, Xiaomi's shipments to Western Europe grew 386 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2018.
Xiaomi shipped 4.4 million smartphones in the wider EMEA region in the third quarter, according to analyst firm IDC. Xiaomi shipments were up 131 percent compared to last year, while Samsung and Apple saw their shipments decline 14.6 percent and 6 percent,
I think the days of the SLR are numbered. With digital there is no longer a reason for that big mirror flipping up and down.
Also leaving that big mirror box off will make them more compact. Probably back to the size of the old 1930s era Leicas.
What the hell are you bitching about? Actually, don’t tell me, I really don’t care. Feel free, however, to enrich the chicoms, making them stronger, comrade. They already have practically everything our military uses through espionage and hardware manipulation... Let them, through your well informed purchases, muscle their way into our markets and into our personal lives as well. Maybe they won’t have to fire a shot...
F&G Ping
A huge pixel count lets you focus on getting _a_ picture, then cropping it to what you actually want later (and still have good resolution).
Who on Earth needs a Chinese spy phone in their hand?
Mine is mirror-less and smaller than the typical DSLR.
I agree about the DSLR is slowly going away.
I went with the GH4 because it was an affordable 4k body.
High megapixel is a lot more than hype, it allows you to crop a picture severely. That means you don’t have to be a good photographer you just crop to get the picture you need or want.
Check out professional cameras and you will see they all have high megapixels and professional photographers are not taken in by hype.
Both Nikon and Canon have cameras in the same megapixel range. I have never heard a photographer complain that he had too many pixels.
You do know that most phones are made in China, right?
I don’t know what you use but you may want to check where it’s made.
The quality of the lens is key. 8 bits of dynamic range per color is more than enough. That’s 256 levels per color.
Yep to all that!
Check out professional cameras and you will see they all have high megapixels and professional photographers are not taken in by hype.
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Sensors in professional cameras are more sensitive to light, have higher dynamic range, less noise and more surface area than sensors in cheaper non-professional cameras. Professionals also put very expensive lenses in front of those sensors.
You’re a perfect example of the consumer that falls for the megapixel hype.
Apple has the iPhones, China has the iSpy phones.
“It is rear facing.”
So it takes 48-megapixel pictures of your rear?
#9 Inside trees by Oompa loompas.
Apple and Samsung are gonna lose their customers if smartphones can be bought for under $200 while they sell theirs for $1,000
The way they "pack in" that many photo receptors is by making them four times smaller than the photo-recptors in a 12 megapixel camera. . . Which meany that unless they have some magical way of multiplying light, four times less light will fall on each pixel to trigger it to release electrons or allow them to pass. There are only two ways to do that, bigger lenses, or fewer lens surfaces (each of which absorbs some light) for image light to pass through. Each correcting lens adds two surfaces. . . as does the cover lens.
So, if you are interested in printing 36 x 22" billboards at ~300 DPI at the perfect resolution of an 8x10, then you might want a 48 mp camera, but then you want one with a huge CCD with full size light receptors youd field in a DIGITAL SLR, not the itty-bitty ones you can stick in the miniature camera a cellular phone has room to allow. . . so the user can take selfies to post on a 6" screen.
I have a 12-Megapixel iPhone 7+ and a 10.2-Megapixel Nikon D80. The Nikon takes better pictures, especially when comparing optical zoom vs. digital zoom.
It is sensor size that matters.
https://newatlas.com/camera-sensor-size-guide/26684/
Full frame is the size of 35mm film.
Much more detail. The size in the cellphone cameras are about the size of your pinky nail. Larger camera lens brings in more light plus are better lenses. The cameras software also makes taking great photos easy.
Here is a photo I took Dec 24, 2018 from the 2nd floor window looking out at a water feature in front of the building I work at. http://davidswebsite.com/pond/pond.jpg
I used a 5 year old LG-G3 which has the specs of a Samsung S8. Not bad but looked at full size and it is awful. Make smaller and it starts to look good. A full frame camera would be sharp at full size.
The cellphone cameras can take real good close up photos of objects but anything 10ft away will start to show the raggedness of the poor resolution you get with a small lens and sensor.
http://davidswebsite.com/pond/pond.jpg
Minnesota is absolutely correct. . . You can also control for depth of field and f-stop on a dedicated camera far better than on any phone camera.
The designers and makers can only do so much with the tiny package they can fit into the space available in a phone with all the other components. Adding extra cameras can help by doubling light collection and superimposing one image on another or bracketing exposures to get the best picture via software (HDR), but those are kludges when a DSLR has no space or size compromises to cause the need for all this software approximation.
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