linux phone with external camera? - eviltoast

How good would the experience be with a linux phone and an external camera?

I’ve got a pixel 6 and although camera’s are getting better each year, it’s not even close to a dslm. And video qualit is probably better with a proper action camera.

I mean, directly “mounting” the camera to the phone and shooting with the phone.

  • Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    10 months ago

    Just a thought, but in a few years all old ugly photos can be refined, upscaled, content edited, rotated and animated - in 32K ultra. It could even recognize the exact mobile model a random photo was taken with and pre-set the best filters.

    It prolly won’t matter much if the photo is taken with a hundred year old handheld plate camera or a brand new digital mounted one - it will look great regardless.

    Are you sure photo hardware is the way to go ? I think I would just use whatever you already have and upgrade the pictures later when the software allows it.

    • Dio9sys@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      10 months ago

      There is really only so Mich software enhancement can do. At a certain point, there’s not enough data to interpolate.

    • juli@programming.devOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      Upscaling isn’t really the holy grail

      And it can’t definitely make up for the subpar image stabilisation of the pixel.

    • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      I really doubt that. Computational photography is only as good as it is because of how heavily it processes all sorts of data that can’t make it into the jpeg that gets spit out.

      I would love to see what an Apple camera with the hardware they leverage on iPhone, but a full frame sensor and real lens could do, because what they manage to pull out of the trash ass input is impressive. But it’s already processed to absolute hell. There’s nothing left for further passes to pull out.