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Remember Xiaomi's modular camera concept? It might actually happen this year
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it's still surprising no one made a DSLR smartphone.
the usecases for high quality lenses combined with a high power network connected computer are only limited by imagination.
Samsung made the NX series. Some had built in phone functionality. But after that samsung quit the entire camera branch
I'm not. Camera hardware lasts significantly longer than phone hardware.
Sony seems to have a decent idea by providing a decent way for their cameras to interact with phones and computers, but I can't imagine marrying the two.
I don't see the issue. if you have a collection of lenses and equipment, and you feel the need to update the phone/camera, you can do so.
But the issue is that the phone and camera would need to be updated together. A large cost to the camera is the sensor and it doesn't need to be updated at the cadence of the rest of the phone.
Crazy idea... keep updating the phone for more than a mere 3 years.
By the time that phones were good enough not to upgrade every two years, cameras in phones were good enough for most consumers.
Phones been 'good' enough for 15 years. Long before their cameras caught up. They just made new phones harder to fix so your forced to 'upgrade' or disable networks that bricked many.
pull a fair phone and make the sensor easily replaceable/upgradable. so you can get a new phone, without getting another sensor.
definitely in the more proficient and not for everyone.
Phones have become less modular, not more.
I know, that trend should be reversed, a1200$ high quality DSLR phone compatible with a major lens standard, with a modular sensor would be a good deal though.
Let me dream man, not like I can afford it anyways
Without the lens, the camera still costs a lot of money and a lot of that is due to the sensor and the image processing which comes from that.
man, i hope you don't take this seriously, this is just me dreaming about a phone I could never afford.
make the base model just a high end phone with replaceable camera module, with a normal phone camera it'll be about an average phone, with camera app designed for photography. another module with a better sensor and dslr lens dock with full compatibility with a major lens standard. it might cost 600, or another 1000 for a high end one.
I wish we had modularity and innovation instead of endless enshitification
I'm not taking it as you being hateful against me personally, I'm just being realistic given the market compared to your wants.
Phone manufacturers have come up with ways to handle depth of field which involve more than one camera, which invalidates a phone with an amazing sensor attached to a lens. The market isn't going to provide the device you want.
sorry, I felt like you might be annoyed with me. hard to read tone in just text.
one big advantage is that phone cameras are so good nowadays because they can leverage the relatively powerful processors for imagine processing, even in a live stream. imagine the image quality of a phone due to software processing + from high quality lens/sensor.
maybe more of a professional tool. was disappointed when Red tried making a phone and it was just an expensive phone.
again, I miss innovation,
Didn't LG or Samsung make one way back in the day? It may have been someone else but I remember such a phone existing.
i think it was more like a sonic cybershot, rather than a DSLR with exchangeable lenses
Motorola had a modular series of phones with 'Moto Mods', one of which was a Hasselblad camera, not sure if that's what you're thinking of?
No it definitely wasn't Motorola, I don't even know that one came out in my place. It was most likely Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom. I don't know if it was DSLR but it had a professional looking camera, looking back it was way ahead of it's time.
There were several cameras in the NX series. Some compact, some with changeable lenses. They were honestly pretty good products but samsung completely quit the camera branch shortly after.
Just looked that up, wasn't aware of it at the time, but very interesting idea! And unique design!