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PiBoy314 t1_iu30yeo wrote

Reply to comment by Alwayswandering4 in 3,200 Megapixels: The World’s Largest Camera will be Complete in 2023 by M416_Lover

Interestingly, phone cameras are already nearing the physical limits of how good they can be. With a certain aperture. You can only resolve details of a certain size, even with infinite pixels. There’s definitely some funky stuff with including more cameras, but you notice the megapixels on phone cameras haven’t increased much because that’s not the limiting factor

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musiquededemain t1_iu3gwt8 wrote

The sensors on phone cameras have a lot of catching up to do.

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bsloss t1_iu4bj41 wrote

The sensors are pretty damn good for what they are… the problem is to get better quality pictures you need bigger sensors, and to get light to focus on bigger sensors you need thicker and larger lenses, and so far no one is interested in making a phone with a giant 1” thick lens sticking off the back.

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PiBoy314 t1_iu4geyn wrote

The only way to get more resolution would be to make the camera lenses larger (or add more of them) just due to the wave nature of light.

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danielravennest t1_iu5i37l wrote

The Rubin telescope, like other telescopes, is a really big camera with a really big sensor. The sensor is made of smaller tiles, and the individual pixels are large to collect more light when looking at the sky.

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