The 8-megapixel camera is a scourge against our smartphones. Phone makers need to stop using these poor quality cameras, and this is why.
For a while, the 2-megapixel camera was the most pointless, least-liked addition to a new smartphone’s camera system — but it’s time to redirect our ire in a new direction. Our collective Paddington Bear-style hard stare should be focused on the 8MP wide-angle camera, which is rapidly taking over from the now-mostly-ignored macro camera as the biggest waste of space on a phone today.
Related If you looked at a new phone and the main camera had eight megapixels, would you think that was fine? If it cost $50, perhaps, but if it cost $500 or more, then you’d rightly stop and think about the low-quality photos it will take. You’d be absolutely right too, yet that’s what you’re being sold when a phone has an 8MP wide-angle camera. To me, the wide-angle should be considered and treated like the main camera, not a stupid add-on to bulk up the camera module.
It never seems like a manufacturer can tune an 8MP wide-angle camera’s “performance” very well. When you zoom in on a shot, they’re pixelated and noisy, and there’s almost never any meaningful detail. This all means there’s rarely any consistency between it and a phone’s main camera. This isn’t a new trend either, as you’ll notice from the devices in the gallery, it has been quietly going on for a while, but now it’s time to stop.
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