(07-15-2021, 12:27 PM)Alliecat Wrote: What's your focal length and shutter speed? One is supposed to be able to hand-hold down to 1/f (so, like no slower than 1/50 for a 50mm lens) (maybe you knew that already)....
What I have long heard is that most people can hand-hold at 1/60, if you're careful you can hand-hold at 1/50, and with practice most photographers can usually hand-hold at 1/30.
I was using a point-n-shoot camera, so I'm not sure how those numbers translate. EXIF data indicates a focal length of 4.9mm at an aperture of f/3.3 at an e
osure of 1/20.A twentieth of a second is pretty long to hold a camera steady by hand, so I suspect that the e
osure time is the primary factor in the less than sharp image. Which, I'll admit, comes as a bit of a relief.The 1/f rule is, I believe, based on a "standard" film plane or sensor size; that is, a standard 35mm film frame. The math gets tricky when the sensor size changes.
The phone cams have digital stabilizing and other cool features to reduce "operator incompetence."
It looks like both the iPhone 12 Max is one of the highest-rated camera phones today, at around $1100 USD.
The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra rates just a highly. Depends on if you prefer Android or Apple operating system. Also around $1100 USD.
A company I've never heard of offers the OnePlus 9 Pro with optics designed by Hasselblad! That's pretty cool! Also... $1100 USD.
Reviews suggest that the Google Pixel 5, at around $700, does not quite measure up to the others in all-around image quality, but it excels at low-light and astrophotography. A Pixel 6 is due to be released soon.
Of course, they're phones, so unlike a stand-along camera, there's also the monthly service fee. I honestly don't know if you can continue using the non-phone functions of a mobile phone if you discontinue your phone service. (And an admittedly brief search online reveals no simple or direct answer to that question.)
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