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Old June 18th 18, 04:38 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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Default What exactly is different inside a lens in Macro mode?

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Whisky-dave wrote:

unlike android, which is why a
p&s camera that runs android is an incredibly bad idea.

I didn't know there were any.

then you aren't paying attention (as usual).

in a previous post, i linked two of them.

here they are again:
https://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/Sam...c105azwaatt-60
0x600-C1-052016?$product-details-jpg$

https://www.dpreview.com/news/222432...zoom-moto-mod-
hands-on-preview

And what a massive section of teh market they take up.


exactly.

they were failures.


because they were expensive and not very useful for the majority.


no more expensive than other smartphones.

the reason is that they were not particularly good and very bulky.

But it does prove my point, in that when people are buying such a device
they
are buying a camera with a phone attached to to and not a phone with a
camera
attached to it.
Check out the ads if you don;t belive me, it;s always the phone section
that
gets the press/advertised no one is intersest in how the phone side works.
People now buy a camera with a phone attached.


they're buying a device that does many different things, including a
camera, so there is no longer a need for a second camera.


People carried camera long before the carried phones.


whoosh

As I said now decent cameras come with a phone attached to them almost free
of charge. People buy their smartphone mostly based around the camera and
that is why the majority of smartphones put the camera as the most important
feature NOT the phone.


people buy smartphones for all sorts of reasons, the camera being just
one.

When was the last time mobile phone companies touted how wonderful their
phone sounded or was,


hd voice has been touted as a feature for a few years now.

it was the flip phone and that's why you should buy it,
even the colour has become a bigger feature than the phone itself.


so, not the camera, then.

that's why the p&s segment is basically dead.


Yep, because now you can get a free phone with your camera.


whoosh.