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The Fairphone (Gen. 6)

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155 points DavideNL | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 09:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.438s | source
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phoronixrly ◴[25 Jun 25 11:32 UTC] No.44376060[source]▶
The main camera still sucks, and they seem to keep with the misleading messaging. It's not a 50mp camera if the sensor is 50mp but each pixel in the final photos is averaged from 4 pixels of the sensor...

Yes, the closed-source camera app that does not work on Lineage OS and other alternative firmwares has a 50MP switch, however the quality of the 50MP photo is as poor if not worse than the processed 13MP photo...

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1. filcuk ◴[25 Jun 25 14:37 UTC] No.44377856[source]▶
It is 50mp camera still, otherwise you would not be able to increase quality by averaging those pixels. I dont think anyone need 15000px noisy poor quality image over standard high res with good quality
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2. phoronixrly ◴[25 Jun 25 21:12 UTC] No.44381891[source]▶
Maybe it wasn't clear in my original comment. It sucks picture-quality-wise, and ON TOP of that, they use misleading messaging with their 50MP mode... Colour is washed out, focus is all over the place... I see no reason to buy a 6 before my 5 dies, which is funny because I can swap its components out indefinitely I guess...