LG G4 Will Have The Widest Camera Aperture On The Market

[Guest]

Today, LG Innotek announced that it started mass production of the widest smartphone camera aperture on the market (f/1.8). The LG G4 will be the first beneficiary of the 16MP camera module with the f/1.8 aperture.

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[Jerome Kwok]

The f number is relative to sensor size. f/1.8 on G4 may actually have a smaller aperture than Nokia 808 f/2.4, or a DLSR f/16.

 

[gggplaya]

The f number is relative to sensor size. f/1.8 on G4 may actually have a smaller aperture than Nokia 808 f/2.4, or a DLSR f/16.

Only as far as depth of field, but not as far as exposure. Exposure will be the same so a faster f1.8 lens is still faster than f1.9 regardless of sensor size.

Tony Northrop on youtube talks about this when you normalize sensor size, then you can talk about equivalent apertures.

However iso range will be drastically less on a smaller sensor, so a DSLR will always be better than a cell phone in anything better than outdoors in bright light.

 

[TwoDigital]

This should say "...Widest Camera Aperture Of Any PHONE...". I'm sure many people reading this know that an LG G4 is a phone, but many may not and this detail makes it accurate (if the statement is otherwise accurate.)

 

[zodiacfml]

Yeah, wider than the S6's f1.9 but that doesn't say how sharp the lens is or what is the actual light transmission of the lens. Usually these wide aperture lenses has softer images and with actual light transmission of 0.3 less.

 

[gggplaya]

Yeah, wider than the S6's f1.9 but that doesn't say how sharp the lens is or what is the actual light transmission of the lens. Usually these wide aperture lenses has softer images and with actual light transmission of 0.3 less.

Yea, that's true. So it depends on focal length too because a wider FOV will give you less clarity of your subject than a narrower FOV. So people must consider a total package, and not just look at the lens aperture.

So far i'm loving my Galaxy S6 Camera, it take great pictures for a cell phone, great colors, dynamic range and decent clarity(superb for a cell phone).

 

[razor512]

Why not just give us the best of both worlds and make a decent smartphone, and then add either an APS-C or full frame sensor, in addition to user swappable lens mounts (which it can come with a Nikon, Canon, and Sony lens mount. This will allow people to capture great images on the go without having to invest in a new lens system.

Then the rear camera advertised in the article above, can be made into a front facing camera.

This will appeal to many people, as for example suppose you often have your 24-70 f2.8 attached to your DSLR, but in your camera bag, is also an 85mm f1.4, and an 11-24 f2.8, then you can simply have one of the other lenses attached to your smartphone, while your main lens is attached to your DSLR.

 

[soldier44]

So basically not worth an upgrade if you already have the G3...

 

[gggplaya]

Why not just give us the best of both worlds and make a decent smartphone, and then add either an APS-C or full frame sensor, in addition to user swappable lens mounts (which it can come with a Nikon, Canon, and Sony lens mount. This will allow people to capture great images on the go without having to invest in a new lens system.

Then the rear camera advertised in the article above, can be made into a front facing camera.

This will appeal to many people, as for example suppose you often have your 24-70 f2.8 attached to your DSLR, but in your camera bag, is also an 85mm f1.4, and an 11-24 f2.8, then you can simply have one of the other lenses attached to your smartphone, while your main lens is attached to your DSLR.

Yea, i've been saying camera manufacturers should put android on their cameras, as a side function with it's own processor. So you can use your camera as a camera all day long and save on battery and have fast boot up. Then when it's time to edit, flip a switch and turn on android. Since lightroom is now a mobile app on android, you can do some great basic editing, light highlights, shadows, color adjustment, lens correction. Then put them on facebook or sync it with your cloud server, or upload to a photo website for your photography business.

With midlevel DSLR's costing $600-$1000 and tablets costing $100, i don't see much of a price jump for adding android to a camera.

 

[g-unit1111]

With midlevel DSLR's costing $600-$1000 and tablets costing $100, i don't see much of a price jump for adding android to a camera.

Well there is that weird Samsung Galaxy camera but I don't know what, if any market that serves.

I'm glad to see cell phone manufacturers taking photography more seriously. I have an HTC One right now and I can't stress enough how much the camera sucks. Even the new M9 model isn't that far improved over the original. But after seeing the camera on the new Galaxy S6 and the LG G4 I can't imagine anyone using anything else.

 

[Tad3j]

Well this is not quite exact. The last year Xiaomi Mi4 has an f/1.8

 

[JPNpower]

Why not just give us the best of both worlds and make a decent smartphone, and then add either an APS-C or full frame sensor, in addition to user swappable lens mounts (which it can come with a Nikon, Canon, and Sony lens mount. This will allow people to capture great images on the go without having to invest in a new lens system.

Then the rear camera advertised in the article above, can be made into a front facing camera.

This will appeal to many people, as for example suppose you often have your 24-70 f2.8 attached to your DSLR, but in your camera bag, is also an 85mm f1.4, and an 11-24 f2.8, then you can simply have one of the other lenses attached to your smartphone, while your main lens is attached to your DSLR.

Yea, i've been saying camera manufacturers should put android on their cameras, as a side function with it's own processor. So you can use your camera as a camera all day long and save on battery and have fast boot up. Then when it's time to edit, flip a switch and turn on android. Since lightroom is now a mobile app on android, you can do some great basic editing, light highlights, shadows, color adjustment, lens correction. Then put them on facebook or sync it with your cloud server, or upload to a photo website for your photography business.

With midlevel DSLR's costing $600-$1000 and tablets costing $100, i don't see much of a price jump for adding android to a camera.

The better approach would be Sony's approach, where they use NFC and WiFi to have very easy and fast transfers from camera to tablet/phone. That way you can have two specialized devices to do what they are best at, rather than having one very expensive yet mediocre device. Seriously, the Alpha/Cybershot + Xperia pairing is a friggin mobile powerhouse.

 

[Ryan House]

I think phones should have a Light that stays on while filming video in a dark room. I do not own a smart phone yet. but that is something I would want.

 

[g-unit1111]

I think phones should have a Light that stays on while filming video in a dark room. I do not own a smart phone yet. but that is something I would want.

Absolutely not! That would be the worst idea ever. Especially if you were to use your phone in a concert or other similar venues. Most places that say "no flash photography" make that perfectly clear from the get go.