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by DiogenesKynikos 326 days ago
The article is comparing photo quality between two different cameras. The lens affects image quality, so it's completely fair to discuss.

If it were possible to switch out the lens on the iPhone, and the photographer had just chosen the wrong lens for the job, that would be a fair criticism of the article. But that's not what happened. The iPhone is just very limited when it comes to the lens, compared to a DSLR.
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josephg 326 days ago
> If it were possible to switch out the lens on the iPhone...

It is possible to "switch out the lens" on an iphone, because iPhones ship with multiple camera lenses. (Well, multiple entire cameras). The iphone 16 they're using here has 3 cameras. And yet, I'm pretty sure the photo of the boys was taken with the ultrawide for some reason. A lot of the distortion problems would go away if they took a few steps back and used one of the longer lenses - just like they did with the DSLR.

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labcomputer 325 days ago
You can always crop a wide shot.

Most of the criticism comes down to not standing in the same spot for both photos (I’m unconvinced that the difference in jawlines, for example, is not because the subjects moved while the photographer did).

You can take a bad picture with any camera.

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