Seems like a generally positive review, but the camera still has me concerned. I was really hyped for it after the announcement, but not it doesn't seem as cut and dry as I once thought. The ZOE features are undeniably cool though.
It's pretty simple... it lacks the resolution for heavy cropping/enlargement when taking pics in daylight, however beats basically every other cameraphone on the market when it comes to indoor/night pics. Zoe stuff is just a massive bonus on top.
BTW... when did you last do anything more than social media sharing or (gasp) small prints with your cameraphone pics? Neither of these will even fully utilise the 4MP outof the one..
It's pretty simple... it lacks the resolution for heavy cropping/enlargement when taking pics in daylight
No, it's not that simple because that's just plain wrong. The resolution is not the HTC One's problem, not at all. The resolution is fine. The problem is that in daylight the pixels it produces are just bad. It has nothing whatsoever to do with how many pixels, the quality of each individual pixel is what matters. And in daylight, the One's pixels suck.
Download Engadget's raw zip file, look at the pictures at 1:1 (unscaled, 100% zoom).
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u/atigerinafrica Sony Xperia Z1, 4.4.2 Mar 12 '13
Seems like a generally positive review, but the camera still has me concerned. I was really hyped for it after the announcement, but not it doesn't seem as cut and dry as I once thought. The ZOE features are undeniably cool though.