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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
06-22-2018, 12:50 PM
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The improvement of image quality is measurable relative to image quality of mobile phones, that's why DXO did not test and grade phones with the same scale as they do for cameras, otherwise the phone would be found at the bottom of the scale.
The confusion for most of us comes from the fact that we as mostly not use the image quality we get out of our cameras, there is some much information from a K1 image that the quality is clamped to the maximum that can be rendered by a small display because on a 4k (or HD) display of 10bit depth, a lot of the details and depth is lost. Yet, we don't always need excellent image quality, sometimes we want to take a snapshot to send it to someone as a mean of communication, and in that case, the camera phone is practical.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
06-20-2018, 10:36 PM
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Recently I purchased a new mobile phone, the Samsung S9, choice was based on OS, CPU power, use experience and image quality comparison with some of the other best smartphones. Now, how do images stack up against Pentax K1? Interesting... At first, yes, the smart phone deliver stunning images when viewed on its own high res. OLED display, even zoomed in. Comparison with Pentax K1 images OOC Jpeg downsized to the same resolution as the phone and the phone images look as good as images from the Pentax K1. On the other hand, comparing the 36Mp output of the K1 to the S9, the K1 is vastly superior (K1 files are orders of magnitudes better than file from the S9). Also, the K1 is nearly unlimited with regards to the choice of focal length as opposed to the S9 being limited to a wide angle and a zoomed in option (not sure if this is a digital zoom or optical zoom). From that experience, I came to the conclusion that taking photographs with a smartphone is like digging the ground with a spoon while you could do it better and faster with shovel. There is a lot of advertisement for the Huawei P20 Pro, looks compelling at first, but to me it's more of a stretch of a phone into camera territory without quite reaching the capabilities of a true camera device. On the other hand, I find the software of my K1 rather rudimentary compared to the phone, and that doesn't mean I'd like to have my K1 bothering me with notifications and updates from the network coming all the time (annoying..). But it looks like the processing power of the snapdragon 845 is amazing.
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