| inz | r0kk3rz, gotta hate the "5x" and "telephoto" marketing terms though | 06:45 |
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| r0kk3rz[m] | Marketing wank is gonna wank | 06:45 |
| mord | i wonder how robust the setup is; bump once and bye bye collimation? | 06:47 |
| mornfall | fwiw, the concept has been around for half a decade minimum | 08:10 |
| mornfall | and 125mm equiv is definitely telephoto | 08:11 |
| mord | i think polaroid made cameras with the optical path folded with a prism in the early 80's | 08:13 |
| mord | maybe seen in phones only now due to a patent expiring? | 08:14 |
| mornfall | (as for robustness, it's probably sturdy enough... in all likelihood, the screen will be cracked or the software hopelessly outdated before the lens develops serious issues) | 08:15 |
| mord | yeah i first mistakenly assumed it was a mirror configuration | 08:16 |
| mord | if they can keep the chromatic aberration in check, could be nice. and why shouldn't they, if it's essentially a leica piece | 08:17 |
| mornfall | i don't think they need to, actually... CA is one of the easier problems to fix in software (but it's also probably not going to be a huge deal optically) | 08:19 |
| mord | fair enough | 08:23 |
| mord | i still haven't quite managed to wrap my head around how much postprocessing to address defects or shortcomings in the optics is routinely done nowadays | 08:24 |
| inz | mornfall, I was more thinking that all mobile phone cameras are telephoto, but only now I realized that with the 1/1.7" sensor one can stuff a 27mm equivalent in 6mm, it is actually quite possible | 08:41 |
| mornfall | inz: vast majority of phone cameras are somewhere between normal and wide | 08:48 |
| inz | Sure, but telephoto is an implementation detail stating that focal length > objective length | 08:50 |
| mornfall | technically correct is the best kind of correct :p (but for the vast majority of everyone, telephoto has been synonymous with long-focus for a long time now) | 08:56 |
| inz | And not surprisingly I was actually wrong too. Telephoto does imply narrow fow too. My bad. | 09:03 |
| inz | But I can still dislike "5x" | 09:03 |
| inte[m] | Hey, I'm heading for a new phone again and I think it will become the XA2. I only wonder if someone implemented (experimental) patches for NFC and the fingerprint reader already? | 09:11 |
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