Photography

Hand held,  office lighting,  in phone 120mm zoom + macro + manual focus.  Sony said that phones would replace all point and shoot cameras in a few years,  I'm a believer.  

Love it. 

The shot, and the watch

Would love to see someone on YouTube show video closeups and take to task various mainstream brands, and then compare them to true independents.

and that acquisition will in turn give me the urge to upgrade my watch too!

I asked a seasoned travel photographer friend who conducts workshops for a living the percentage of how often he uses his cameras in workshops versus his iPhone 15 pro max. He told me 90%. I can believe it because whenever we use him as a guide, he hardly uses his cameras. He uses his iPhone from travel portraits, landscapes to even doing long exposures for Milky Way shots. He’s even using it for publishing travel books for local governments.

It’s not there yet in terms of matching high mp sensors but it’s good enough for a lot of day to day use cases.

And with AI, it might just take interpolation / pixel manipulation to a different level. The tech is there and you can already see it in ever increasing MP count on the same sensor size for example.

I had a pixel 9 pro briefly before this and the hit rate on shots was amazing. Low light, super zoom, the computational photography was incredible. I did find some artifacts and unnatural sharpening at times which put me off but that was really only if you were pixel peeping, as a whole the shots looked great.

options, Zeiss optical zoom, HD video, smaller than a phone. No manual focus though and I'm not sure if it can get in as tight as your shot (time to play with it some more!). Sadly, phones killed it but I'm keeping mine! ;-)