Which default focal length do you use and what are it’s advantages?
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Which default focal length do you use and what are it’s advantages?
It’s about personal preference since its just a digital zoom at the base level, click in every focal length and choose what you like
23mm in theory will be the sharpest as it is native focal length. The rest are just a crop in.
Thanks for your feedback. What I found is that 23 mm is 1x, 28 mm is 1.2x and 35 mm is 1.5x.
Basically this is a redundant setting unnecessarily given in the camera settings.
Imho 28mm is ideal
Not really unnecessary. Some people might have a preferred focal length that they’ll use most of the time, so Xiaomi is giving people the option to choose the default one. But out of the box it comes with what doesn’t have digital zoom, which is 23mm.
You can switch it while taking a photo—just tap on “1x” to cycle through 23mm, 28mm, and 35mm.
28 mm for the main camera.
28mm better
1000€ phones got some crazy stuff
Wow! Another built-in redundancy!
Whoa, I didn’t know thanks.
Like in iphone…
Btw, on the iPhone it doesn’t work if you switch from 24mp to 12 for.. no reason :3
it’s not really that crazy, it’s basically just digital zoom. But yeah, your point is still valid, this phone is a beast in photography.
35mm. I know its a drop but i shoot predominantly my family and like the 35mm feel to portraits.
lmao that’s digital zoom, 5$ phones have it.
no, the phone is garbage. in both photography and being a phone. ximi fans on copium.
what phone do you think is the best at photography?
Neither are without flaws at the moment. But xiaomi’s lack of natural color profile, meh highlights, weak tele1, broken raw, meh video, skintones, etc. yet again make it a miss.
Vivo has the best camera systems at the moment but overall balance is the Find X8 Ultra as it has way better internals than the Vivo and Xiaomi.
I really did expect find x8 ultra to be the answer. Vivo is good but their OS is questionable.
I’m seeing some hacks on how to fix highlights on FX8U until they fix them with OTA (stage mode and -0.3EV when there’s a lot of billboards n crap)
But I won’t buy it until I see them fixed in normal mode too.
28 and 35 are simply digital crops, i let mine at 23 and just crop-in as much as i need after the photo was taken.
23mm uses the full sensor so !Q should be the best.
The rest are cropped
But I love the 35mm abit more
In summary , use the focal length that the scene requires.
It’s not a “digital zoom” but ISZ. Completely unrelated to digital zoom.
The fact that you say it’s “digital zoom” and talk about copium is diabolical. It’s not a digital zoom but ISZ. Average reddit user that keeps calling people out but doesn’t even know what ISZ is. lmao
And once again here, it’s not a “digital crop”, it’s ISZ.
wooow such a large difference, obviously both are digitally cropping into the sensor.
As long as there are no moving lenses – it’s digital.
23 mm is its native.
35 mm is cool but then it would be a crop process.
Go with 23 mm.
Works with other lenses too btw
Maybe because 24mp require the original angle and can’t crop in, Like 50mp mode on Android phones
It definitely doesn’t have the typical phone camera look. However I come from Lumix FZ18, Canon 550D and Nikon 3500. I definitely find it has that actual camera look, not the image stacked artificial look of phone cameras. It’s entirely a matter of personal preference.
BTW, I’ve used Samsung and Apple flagships for the last 15 years. This is my first Xiaomi phone.
Woooow, truly revolutionary analysis, professor neznambrevise.
Just because both digital zoom and in-sensor zoom (ISZ) involve ‘cropping’ doesn’t mean they’re remotely the same thing.
Digital zoom = Crop after the image is captured → low-res blurry garbage because the sensor already read the full image and you’re just upscaling it afterward.
In-Sensor Zoom (ISZ) = Crop at the sensor readout stage → the camera only reads the center portion at full native pixel density. No rescaling, no interpolation. Full optical sharpness preserved.
It’s literally the same as having a smaller sensor, not stretching pixels afterward.
But yeah, sure buddy, “no moving lenses = digital” — by that logic, every prime lens ever made must also be “digital” because guess what? They don’t zoom either. Genius levels of photography IQ right there.
Thank you for this enlightening masterclass, professor. The entire imaging industry can now pack it up because Reddit user neznambrevise has decreed that ISZ = digital zoom. 🥇👏
Of course I know the difference, I’m just saying that it can be achieved on basically any phone..
🤔
What do you mean “original angle”?
Ah, classic move — when caught in 4K not knowing the difference between digital zoom and ISZ, just pivot the argument to ‘but any phones can do it!’
Yes, professor, *a*nything can crop an image after it’s taken.
But that’s not what ISZ is. It’s **hardware-level sensor readout control**, not ‘taking a full image and cropping it.’
Just like a 2-dollar Casio calculator and a $3000 GPU can both ‘do math’, but somehow… **one is a tiny bit faster and more sophisticated.** 🤔
Appreciate you sticking around to bless us with these groundbreaking insights. I eagerly await your next revelation, like how using a magnifying glass is basically the same as a $10,000 microscope.
The original focal length* provided by the lens without cropping
No. It works with 24 mp, but does not with 12. Full sensor revolution is 48 mp
You can’t have the “Full optical sharpness preserved” if you don’T use the whole optic, so your statement is wrong.
I see where you’re coming from, but there’s a fundamental misunderstanding here.
When I said “full optical sharpness preserved,” I was referring to the fact that in-sensor zoom (ISZ) reads only from the center portion of the sensor, which typically corresponds to the center of the lens’s image circle — the region that tends to be optically sharpest with the least distortion or aberrations.
You’re right that using the entire lens can offer maximum resolution across the frame. But that doesn’t mean ISZ compromises sharpness like digital zoom does. ISZ avoids interpolation entirely by reading native sensor pixels directly, so it preserves all available detail in the zoomed region, unlike digital zoom, which degrades image quality through upscaling.
So while ISZ isn’t optical zoom in the traditional moving-lens sense, it’s also clearly not digital zoom. It maintains both sensor-level and optical clarity within the cropped region.
Therefore, no, my statement isn’t wrong. And so far, you haven’t actually explained how it is. Now that I’ve clarified that ISZ uses the optically best portion of the lens and avoids all the losses associated with digital zoom, I’d be genuinely interested if you still believe there’s a flaw in that reasoning.
I don’t really care, as long as you don’t call it lossless zoom you can have the there is a difference between cropping and interpolation as fake zoom technique.
Funny how “I don’t really care” only shows up after dodging the entire technical explanation and still failing to provide a single counterpoint.
Also, let’s get this straight: I never said “lossless zoom”, not once. That was entirely your invention, which you then used to argue against a point no one made. Classic strawman.
What I actually said, and explained in detail, is that in-sensor zoom is not digital zoom, because it avoids interpolation and preserves native sensor data while using the sharpest part of the lens. If that’s too inconvenient to acknowledge, just say so.
Next time, maybe try reading to understand instead of rushing to correct things you clearly didn’t grasp. Until then, I’m still waiting on an argument that holds up. 😂