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What I would like is a really good single camera. If that's even possible. One thing I find sort of irritating about the multi-camera setup on my iPhone is that using it as a magnifier is often frustrating. Get too close to something and it decides to switch cameras, which then means now you're actually looking at something else entirely. Maybe I'm missing a setting somewhere, I can't be the only person to notice how awkwardly the functionality is implemented.


It's hard to get that in a single camera because of the size.

If you consider the size of professional grade camera lenses there's a reason why they produce much better images. But conversely it's pretty impressive what phone manufacturers have been able to accomplish with such a small amount of space. For 90% of use cases camera phones are sufficient.


The latest Xiaomi has this, they call it continuous optical zoom. It's the first time I've seen it on a phone camera.


If they added a lens lock option (like the AE lock) it would fix this problem nicely.


No, it sucks (16 Pro). I've had lots of issues reading QR codes.




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