Wow! Is Tony Northrup right about Quad Bayer phone cameras?

Went down a deeper rabbit hole than I intended, some serious pixel peeping shows that despite being illogical in their approach (just cutting a pixel into 4ths but with the same filter on top) offers more than one might think.

[@Wairoakid]

Love your calm and logical approach. Have learnt a lot from your videos.

[@cwaynefox]

I appreciate that!

[@mikethespike056]

just stumbled across your channel researching quad bayer cameras. great video and btw your camera looks fantastic. while that guy you talked about definitely didn't understand quad bayer sensors, it's still funny how apple claims to have 7 lenses when no other phone manufacturer says that. samsung with their 200 MP tetra²pixel camera could claim they have like a dozen lenses but they don't do it. it's literally digital zoom. does it get more detail? yes, but it's still digital zoom. anyway i hope you're still reading because im curious about how exactly the interpolation is done here, and how the aperture affects how much detail can physically be captured.

[@robertnystrom289]

Well done!

[@cwaynefox]

Thx.

[@bruce-le-smith]

makes sense, thanks!

[@bunkermagnus]

This is a great video. Great logic approach. The modern iphones can't compete with regular camera in the "physical" realm, like sensor size and lens characteristics. What the phones have in abundance is computational power so all this makes sense, they want more data to process and they can do more in a shorter period of time. I always felt that Tony goes a little too hyperbolic about the iphones and suspected there are more to it. Thanks for clearing that up.

[@cwaynefox]

Good comment. I had a section talking about the amazing computational power of these latest phones, including a quote from Marques Brownlee stating the 28, 35 and 48mm presets have special computational efforts behind them to maximize the quality , but the video got too long so I decided to focus on just the resolving ability of the quad bayer sensors and how many including myself underestimated they’re ability to resolve detail. thanks for watching.

[@ryanclouse299]

Not a fan of Tony. He says a lot of things that are sort of unintelligible. 48 mp is 48mp and it is taking in more information, but the color arrangement is not a good as a standard bayer arrangement but is better than 12mp. It is true that they are indeed cropping, which i think is mostly the point. the quad bayer does seem like an advantage specifically for 12 mp binning and video.

[@putubing]

Wayne why dont you make utube videos in 4K, This video would have been helped by an increase in resolution

[@cwaynefox]

Your right. Very few of my videos would benefit from 4k but this one would have. Should have thought of it.