LG patent phone with 16 lenses

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4 hours ago, D13H4RD said:

I'm still struggling to find an actual real-world use case for a phone which has 16 individual camera modules

I still have to find a use case for a camera module on a phone.

3 years and I have yet to open the camera app of my V10.

 

[RejZoR]

6 hours ago, CommandMan7 said:

 

 

I use the Telephoto on my XS, but only for 2x optical zoom. Couldn't care less about bokeh, and I wish the Optical zoom would be prioritized over other things, since everyone is going to zoom their camera but I suspect only a fraction will use bokeh. If Optical Zoom could somehow be improved to say, 5x, then that would probably be one of the biggest advancements in smartphone design in the past 3 years. Imagine the marketing material comparing digital vs optically zoomed images at 5x, it wouldn't even be a contest. That being said I'm not an Optical expert and doubt something like 5x is physically feasible but I can dream.

I have no clue where "more than" was lost in this part... "I really don't get the point of having more than 2 cameras on a phone." Because that's what I wanted to say as I also continued with why you'd only really need 2 cameras, but for some reason didn't.

 

As for the zoom, we already have massive optical sensors that can snap photos at ridiculous resolutions, why not just use digital lossless zoom used on Lumia phones? Basically, you crop a super resolution image and you get a zoom. Pairing that with 3x optical that is not anything super exotic and you can get high zoom levels without any loss of image quality.

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LG can claim, they're the first to have a smart phone with bug eye lens.