Other Will iPhone 17 finally shoot 8k?

[shadowboi]

In 2024 it looks almost pathetic for 48mp camera to still shoot 4k. It is like, is there even point in such a high resolution if it still shoots 8 megapixels?

Look, before you say “but man, it will take tremendous amount of storage”. Yeah, I know. But we gotta progress somehow, right? Or else there wasn’t much need to quadruple sensor resolution at all.

I don’t believe modern processors cannot process this high quality.

When iPhone 4s received new 8mp sensor it started shooting 1080p. Yeah, just 2mp. But back in 2011 it was the main resolution for web video. When 6s got 12mp sensor it started shooting 4k30 right away, whole 8mp. Quite effective, right? And when we saw iPhone 14 Pro with 48MP quad bayer “something” we got… ah we got nothing! Just blah blah blah about “best camera in the world”. If so, it would have been awesome to get ideal details and see actual benefit of the new camera system.

Now we have a third gen of this sensor and all we have is 120fps. No, I mean everyone sometimes shoots sport events but… isn’t it way too incremental?

I had noticed Apple focuses too much on camera image processing instead of real spec bump. Videos have become more smooth and stabilized, less noisy (thanks to dumb NR algorithms that often make night footage look like trash) and more “sharp” (because of sharpening/clarity filter they put on top, hopefully it is not as oversharpened as on Samsung).

I hope 17 Pro will finally get adequate high video resolution. After all, those terabytes of storage need to be put on some work. And even if not 8k, maybe 5.3k at least?

No, no… I don’t really hope. I speculate iPhone 17 WILL get 8k. How else are they supposed to sell new phones?? Drip feeding tactic will continue its way into 2025. Maybe, I mean just maybe we get some sort of TTFL flash one day…

 

[the-bigwig]

imo one thing apple should consider is bumping the slow motion quality and/or fps. 240/1080p in 2024 is pathetic. 4K is still ok I think though.

 

[LionTeeth]

Who out there is just dying for “8K” anything? There’s no standard yet for television resolution. The sensors on an iPhone barely shoot true 4K, and on these small screens you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference between 4k and 1080

I can put a well done 1080p bluray on my calibrated tv and it looks better than UHD. What is the purpose of 8K?

 

[shadowboi]

Who out there is just dying for “8K” anything? There’s no standard yet for television resolution. The sensors on an iPhone barely shoot true 4K, and on these small screens you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference between 4k and 1080

I can put a well done 1080p bluray on my calibrated tv and it looks better than UHD. What is the purpose of 8K?

That’s another problem: those do not shoot true 4k. And it is not really a problem to get them shooting it with some 3rd party apps, but still I barely understand why it is still not possible in main camera.

Professional 1080 will blow iPhone 4k out of the water for sure. But thats why iPhone is more sort of consumer-oriented product. Codecs and compression matter a lot, too. Shooting in 50mbps 1080 can produce similar sharp videos on iPhone, surely not as good as on TV but still acceptable for viewing.

Meanwhile I learned that Samsung flagships already shoot 8k so Apple will once again play follower, not leader

 

[Bungaree.Chubbins]

That’s another problem: those do not shoot true 4k. And it is not really a problem to get them shooting it with some 3rd party apps, but still I barely understand why it is still not possible in main camera.

Professional 1080 will blow iPhone 4k out of the water for sure. But thats why iPhone is more sort of consumer-oriented product. Codecs and compression matter a lot, too. Shooting in 50mbps 1080 can produce similar sharp videos on iPhone, surely not as good as on TV but still acceptable for viewing.

Meanwhile I learned that Samsung flagships already shoot 8k so Apple will once again play follower, not leader

So what if Samsung has a phone that shoots 8k? It's just spec sheet wars. I don't care if the numbers are bigger, the numbers are already big enough. I want better lenses, more versatility in the image processing allowing for a wider range of shooting styles, and so forth. I reckon a well sorted 4k iPhone will outperform any number of random phones shooting at 8k.