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		dmitrygr on Aug 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Galaxy S23 will be equipped with 200-megapixel cam... The marketing department has never heard of diffractions limits. Not a problem because most consumers haven't either. All they know is "bigger number better"

nomel on Aug 19, 2022 [–]

My naive assumption is that it can help with computational photography, without having to do things like sensor shift [1].

> https://digital-photography-school.com/understanding-sensor-...

I also assume that the improvement is nowhere near "linear".

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