Mrwhosetheboss builds the worlds best smartphone camera
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Smartphone cameras have a lot of catching up to do in comparison to dedicated cameras. Having said that, leading tech YouTuber Mrwhosestheboss just dropped the world’s largest smartphone, packed with the world’s best smartphone camera. Well, kind of.
In his latest YouTube video Mrwhosetheboss reveals a project he and his team has been working on for 12 months - a Guinness world record smartphone device.
The phone itself weighs between 150-200 kgs and is over two meters in height. That makes it 15x larger than the latest iPhone. It requires four people and a set of wheels to transport it around. Right off the bat, it should be clear this no more than a cool experiment, a gimmick to see what’s possible.
But what about the camera capabilities? Well, most smartphone sensors are small, with a select few going up to one inch in size. That’s why smartphone camera image quality is inferior to today's best cameras.
For this project, Mrwhosetheboss didn’t pack sensors into the smartphone, he packed cameras. The team used a Canon EOS R5 as the main camera. It’s shipped with a 45 MP full-frame CMOS sensor, uses the DIGIC X image processor and has superb autofocus - a quick side by side with iPhone 15 Pro max highlights its superiority.
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For the zoom camera, the team used a Sony RX10 Mark IV. A 20.1MP 1-inch sensor hybrid camera that runs on the BIONZ X image processor. It has a 25x optical zoom lens. Despite the smaller sensor, the RX10 Mark IV still had vastly better image quality when fully zoomed in and compared to the iPhone.
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Clearly this device won’t ever go to market. It cost around $70,000 to make. Does it highlight the lengths a smartphone manufacturer will have to go to create professional-standard smartphone cameras? Probably not. However, we’ll just have to wait and see as technological advancements continue in the smartphone space.
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