Well, that was quick.
I'm back with yet another article on resolution and such Madness. This time I compare photographs taken using a Sony HX90V 18mpixel 30x zoom point and shoot against a Motorola G8 Power that I recently picked up on sale.
The setup was a street scene. The camera and phone were shot handheld. I selected the focal lengths closest to 24mm full frame equivalent. On the Moto G8P this meant selecting the middle/default lens, where I set the resolution to 16mpixel. I let the devices deliver the output jpgs using their default image processing modes.
That's it. Easy peasy.
Here is a comparison of images between the two devices.
As is quickly confirmed, the Motorola fixed focal length lens system outperforms the Sony point and shoot at this focal length. Images out of the Moto G8P are sharp to the very edges. The Moto G8P colors are more pleasing to my eyes where the Sony color tones feel slightly "washed out."
Compared to APS-C or Full Frame images, these devices produce somewhat "water colory" rendition. Yet, when downsized for viewing across the web images from the small devices aren't half bad.
Of course the Moto G8P doesn't have the kind of reach that the 30x zoom Sony HX90V has. But after spending far too long cooling our Covid 19 pandemic jets in Nice, France this past winter where I used the Sony quite often, I realized yet again that I seldom use long focal lengths when I'm out wandering around. I just don't "see" that way.
I know I'm well "behind the curve" on this stuff. So I'll close by saying the obvious - cell phone cameras aren't nearly as bad as I feared.
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