The more cameras a mobile and another 5 myths of photography with smartphones have

At the beginning of this century, The mobiles began to flirt with the idea of ​​integrating cameras. First it was with accessories, as some Siemens or Sony models had. Later they began to integrate into them, as happened with the famous Nokia 7650 that Movistar marketed in Spain.

This trend was not a passenger fashion And the rest of the brands began to be discounted that, if they wanted to launch a new smartphone, I had to wear a camera. We have not seen the launch of a new product for years without a camera. At least one.

The trend was expanding, the ecosystem of applications that use photos growing and, when we realized, more than a decade ago, compact digital photo cameras had passed to better life. Professional cameras still resist in some fields, but even these are still eliminated from certain scenarios.

During these more than two decades we have seen many problems with the cameras, we have seen iterations and changes, and we have also heard statements that are not true, but that They have settled in the popular imaginary.

These statements seem that they were written in the very tables of the law. They are things that are directly false or, at best, they are not technically correct.

Affirmations such as a mobile must have the more cameras the better, that the MPX are the star measure to know the quality of the camera of a mobile or that the oversaturated photos are worse are things that we have heard many times, but there are errors in all those premises. These are the most important myths.

Purity against edition

When the mobiles began to integrate cameras quality was very low. So much so that asking reality to reality was almost a joke. Only that the image was slightly usable we could already give ourselves happy.

But things have changed, and Now mobile phones have cameras with very capable systemsalthough not all manufacturers treat them the same. But all give it importance.

Photographers always praise the images that show the faithful colors of reality, cameras capable of capturing the subtle differences in tones and colors. In the professional world of photography that is a value but In people’s day to day it is not always.

Samsung has been thrown out that, for many years, their mobiles took slightly more saturated photos than normal. It wasn’t a mistake. In the company, and in many others, they knew that these photos were more attractive to users, who would like to share them more and use the mobile.

That, for photographers it is almost a heresyIt is a reality. Of course it is good to have better cameras, but that the photos are more shocking and striking is not a problem, as long as you are aware of it, of course.

More cameras, more cameras!

The race for the number of sensors began soon, with Brands implementing several cameras for all types of purposes. We have seen sensors that only took data to take portrait photography, others that measure the colors … whatever were to put two, three or more cameras on the mobile.

The problem is that this is because People tended to choose mobile phones with the highest number of cameras when I doubtedas a worker from The Phone House told us a few years ago. This encourages brands to be implemented more sensors, especially in the input range models.

Actually, mobile phones with two or three cameras (angular, ultra wide angle and telephoto) They are the most balanced. There are models that dispense with the latter and others that have two optical zoom systems but, in essence, this is the strategy to be followed to have a mobile with a versatile camera system.

Uploading the MPX

Another of the numbers that are always believed that the higher the better the photograph is that of the megapixels. This figure exclusively gives us the dimension of photography, resolution, digital size.

That a camera has more or less does not tell us about its qualityonly of its size. There are certain tasks that can benefit from a camera of many MPX, such as the sensor cut.

This is used by some mobiles, such as the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, to simulate zoom photos despite not having a camera for it. However, that a mobile has more MPX than another does not imply, or from afar, that its camera is better.

Zoom 100x

Once the fever for the number of MPX and cameras cooled, another battle began, that of the zoom. Samsung started talking about Space Zoom to enhance sales of its new Samsung Galaxy S20 series.

They were not the first, but those who boasted Be able to expand up to 100 times an image. Yes, they could do it, digitally, but the result was unusable, as we could presume. A larger zoom does not imply a better photo.

Moreover, it is usually the other way around. Beyond a hybrid zoom of 10 increases, or 30 increases with great luck, The results usually serve to read a poster that is far away and little morebut not to take a photo and publish it.

Manual mode

Photographers are used to having to control dozens of parameters in their photos, and seek to do the same in mobiles. And it’s not bad. But what most people need is A mobile that takes good photos in automatic mode. It is how 99.99% of people will do it.

That is why to say that to squeeze a camera you have to use the PRO mode, or shoot in RAW, it is inaccurate. It is not that it is false, but it is absurd to pretend that most users, even a notable amount, spend minutes taking a single photo when what you want is to do it as fast and better with a single pulsation.