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am i the only one that is reminded by the "multi-blade razor wars", when gillette and wilkinson got into a "mine has more blades" competition? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-knive...

>> Gillette has historically called the shots in this razor war. It enjoys a huge worldwide sales advantage over Schick/Wilkinson Sword, which is now based in St Louis. With several lawsuits and countersuits constantly on the go, the companies can fairly be said truly to hate one another - especially since Gillette was unnerved in 2003 by Wilkinson Sword's brilliant and somewhat insolent introduction of the Quattro, a four-blade beast of a razor, which captured Gillette's jealously-guarded "most blades" title and has held on to it for the past three years.

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If you think that is crazy look back to the Nokia 1020 that had a 41 MP camera and PureView back when most phones had like 8 MP. It took some awesome photos and several of my friends were very satisfied with the phone.

AAWP just did a PureView comparison, very interesting that the older Nokias actually beat the new Nokia 9 PureView

http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/23435_Imaging_...

Sounds like maybe I ought to pull the old 1020 out of my museum. One error in that article, though... it is possible to turn off the downsampling to 5MP.

I had a Nokia 3650 for 4 years that had a 640x480 resolution, and it took amazing photos.

I also recently had a Nokia with a 12MP camera that was essentially garbage.

You can't really compare megapixels to megapixels, as the lens is more important.

You could have a 200MP camera, but if you're using a pinhole lens, you're just going to have 200 megapixels of crap.

Agreed, but the 41 MP had Carl Zeiss lens (I hear that is good) and the PureView tech. Please correct me if that is just a good name on slapped on a crap lens (I'm not a photography enthusiast )

Or nokia camera designer light's own camera.

https://light.co/camera

I actually think 1 41MP is less crazy than 5 8MP cameras.

5 lenses, 5 chips and 5 angles, seems hard to use in unison, so you end up having 4 cameras you don't use.

seems hard to use in unison

Using the five lenses and five sensors in unison is kind of the whole point of this setup. The underlying technology is pretty clever and allows for some cool tricks not possible with a traditional camera. You can read more about the concept here https://light.co/technology

edit: that being said, I have no idea how well this turns out to work in practice

This deserves a link to a great article from The Onion. =) https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...

With cameras more physical lense area and more sensor area should actually be beneficial.

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