Wide angle cameras have been a staple addition on smartphones since the days of the LG G5 . Most have a 120 degree field of view, allowing us to capture photos of vistas to help convey scale in a way cameras with a narrower field of view cannot. It’s normal and accepted to have a “0.6x” mode in the camera app, and to not see it as an option on the iPhone 16e was quite jarring at first. The more I thought about it, the less I thought it was a problem. Wide angle cameras are at...
