Samsung Galaxy A9 arrives with quad-rear cameras

[3dcandy]

I'm so backwards I use a straight edge (or slant bar if I'm feeling lazy) and a phone with.... a single camera.

Heretic! Burn that man!

[philehidiot]

Amusingly, I normally do two passes with a single blade, be it straight edge or slant bar, and the end result is way better than anything you get with one of these stupid multiblade jobbies. The downside is that the money you save on blades you put into a badger brush and proper shaving creams that cost a relative fortune becuase they have to be far better than these cans of spray on rubbish. Still lasts aaaages though.

[big_hairy_rob]

The A series is now £550 - wow!

my thoughts exactly. loose the stupid lense gimmick and we're probably still talking stupid money. no notch though...

[mtyson]

New infographic about this phone from Samsung

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The sub £200 Xiaomi Mi A1 has a 12MP 2X zoom,so is instantly 20% better at zoom than the Samsung A9!!



BTW,GSMArena has a preview of the phone here:

https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_gal...iew-1838p3.php

The rest of the snappers are spearheaded by the main 24MP, f/1.7 unit. It's the brightest of the bunch and what you will likely end up using most of the time. Positioned on top of it is an 8MP, f/2.4, ultrawide 120-degree, fixed-focus unit. Then comes the telephoto 10MP, f/2.4 camera.

[peterb]

The sub £200 Xiaomi Mi A1 has a 12MP 2X zoom,so is instantly 20% better at zoom than the Samsing A9!!

Well only as far as camera capability is concerned - and depends on the quality of the cameras and the DSP capability.

my thoughts exactly. loose the stupid lense gimmick and we're probably still talking stupid money. no notch though...

Exactly - for that sort of price I'd expect more innovation - at least two notches!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Well only as far as camera capability is concerned - and depends on the quality of the cameras and the DSP capability.

I think you missed the joke. It was due to the Samsung bumpf which was posted,ie,"snap extreme details,without loosing image quality etc with 10MP,and then the bumpf about the 24MP "get tack sharp images,etc",which is utterly hilarious. So then stick to 10MP for the main camera,then. The lenses on these integrated modules are not that brilliant anyway,so I doubt they can actually resolve 24MP of detail - its bad enough with dedicated cameras. All you are doing is increasing the processing load with the bigger images,which then to save space are compressed down even more with the resulting jpeg,which leads to more artifacts.

This is the MP war which happened with dedicated cameras years ago,and in the end it actually caused more problems than it solved. You see the same with a number of these phones,where the new ones can at times have worse IQ over the previous ones.

If anything this is probably why Apple has kept to around 10MP~12MP for its cameras. Any more is most likely limited gains,especially if the sensor size remains the same over a few generations.

[philehidiot]

I used a 20MP on my old phone and 12MP on my current one. The 12MP is better by far however there are certainly the odd occasions where the extra pixels have been missed for cropping / zoom. I think the best compromise is the Huawei method of having a high MP sensor and then the option of 40MP Vs 10MP and essentially having a quarter of the pixels but being all fancy with them.

[zygzakmcqeen]

Meanwhile Pixels 2 & 3 offer the best camera experience in a smartphone with only one lens.
I'm just waiting for this trend to stop. So many image sensors waste internal space that could be used for something that actually improves using the smartphone.