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Just wondering how much this is really just software performing the "upgrade"? The Pixel 3 camera app made every camera better in the end.

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The new iPhone camera looks pretty sweet but the part that I'm starting to disagree with is what they call, "semantic rendering." This is where the camera recognizes different things in the photo and treats them different like sharpening some areas, smoothing others, etc.

To me this this aspect feels like basically an Instagram filter. Are we going for accuracy or how pleasing the photos are? They're definitely more pleasing but not an accurate representation.

There is no such thing as an accurate image. What your brain sees when it looks at an image is totally different from what it would see if it was standing in front of the lens. And what my brain would see is different still.

Lenses are subjective. The question is: what do you want to see, and what lenses see that?

This! The sideloaded pixel camera app made me want to hold on to my 3 year old One Plus 3 for more years to come.

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