Monday, February 11, 2013
The Rise of the Consumer Electronics Prosumer
The smartphone processor with its in-built camera chip is driving a resurgence of interest in the art of photography. Just look at the Instagram app user numbers -- about 80 million at last count, according to publisher Burbn's blurb in iTunes. There's a problem, though. Today, the smartphone can't provide the image quality of a dedicated camera. This is simply due to image sensor size and lens quality. The sensor -- the chip used to capture the image -- is physically too small in a smartphone, and the quality of lens can't match the glass in a dedicated camera.
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