Pocketable camera choices/recommendations

[kofa (István Kovács)]

@martin.scharnke

if someone were to be able to recommend a cellphone

You may try a ‘Pro’ model from Google’s Pixel line.

The phones are catching up

Google Pixel 7 Pro (5x optical zoom + digital magic): [387774735_2641878125964258_7314338315802236327_n] Lumix LX7 in P mode (yeah, an old pocketable camera), with P mode program set to optimise for lens sharpness, at maximum zoom, denoising, sharpening, contrast in darktable (not the best processing, but you get the idea): [2023-10-08-14-18-48_P1010847_02] Cropped to show approximately the same area (the photos were taken a few minutes apart, from slightly different locations): [2023-10…