| ▲ | CarVac 7 days ago | |
Unfortunately, if the phone camera images are processed without oversharpening, the results are extremely soft. Also, the wide lenses on most phones are actually very heavily distorted nearly to the point of being fisheye, and made rectilinear with processing. | ||
| ▲ | vladvasiliu 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Also, the wide lenses on most phones are actually very heavily distorted nearly to the point of being fisheye, and made rectilinear with processing. Not just phones. Most wide-angles for "serious cameras" have distortion and rely on digital correction. See [0] for an extreme example in the form of a 16mm Canon, which is much less wide than the iPhone lens. [0] https://photographylife.com/reviews/canon-rf-16mm-f-2-8/2 | ||
| ▲ | hatthew 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Yeah, and even with sharpening it's noticeably softer when you zoom in on the photo. For fisheye, I guess it would have been more accurate to say: the perspective distortion is present in both photos and is stronger for the iphone photo due to a shorter effective focal length, and there is no noticeable fisheye/barrel distortion in the iphone photo. | ||