iPhone 18 Pro Rumored to Be More Like DSLR Camera With This Upgrade

[H_D]

I don't get the reason for aperture control – in a DSLM/DSLR it is to control the softness of focus and bokeh, which a chip of any mobile phone doesn't deliver, while f1,8 on a Nikon, Canon or Sony is buttery soft with a pinpoint area of focus, on a smartphone the whole image is more or less sharp at least until you get really really close to your object/subject.

That said, it is remarkable how good iPhone Pro images look when show RAW and processed in Lightroom. Far cry from a Z8, of course, or even a GM1/5/PenF M43-style camera which is as pocketable as a mobile phone... but we've come a long way and to amazing results with a piece of hardware that fits in your pocket.

 

[840quadra]

Maybe for non-action shots. Try indoor high school basketball with a 70-200 f/2.8, 1/250th shutter, ISO 3200, f/2.8 ... the 7D1 can pull that off no problem. Any iphone will be a joke in those conditions. All the iPhone photos will be nothing but smeary blur. Check the exif for any iPhone night shot: almost always like 1/30th second or so.

Fair point, though I would not consider an indoor HS Basketball game anything close to low light. HS Wrestling with their dramatic single light source, would totally agree.

You crank the ISO high on the 7D1 you have a fair bit of noise quite quickly, I know this as I still own one. Far easier to take a quick shutter street photo, or portrait in a dark area with a phone and not have a shot with killer noise. Newer crop / full frame cameras do quite a bit better.

 

[Cod3rror]

For me, it's merely a "think piece" since I don't need a camera, so I'm imagining a universe where smartphone innovation moves away from having to have a bigger camera to make money. What if the high end "I always buy the Pro Max to get the best camera" buyers had the option of buying a Sony camera phone hybrid that could surpass any smartphone camera. Of course it would be expensive and also have to look "cool" enough to carry around.

I have thought about a "smart mirrorless camera" too, but to be frank, I don't really know what smart features would it need.

Maybe smart image processing, like smartphones? But then again, many photographers shoot RAW anyway.

Modern mirrorless cameras have good connectivity with Bluetooth, WiFi, and GPS.

Would somebody use their mirrorless camera as a daily Android smartphone?

I came to a conclusion that mirrorless cameras are where they need to be and don't really require any smart features. At least I can't think of any.

I would instead prefer a camera-centric smartphone, with bigger sensors that still looks like a smartphone.