Am i the only one that noticed a smaller camera lens on the ipad air?

I was just wondering why apple would make their lens smaller on the ipad air from what it was before on the third and fourth generation ipad. If you have a ipad air and a third or fourth gen ipad compare the cameras on the back and you'll see that the air has a much smaller lens than the previous versions. Im just wondering why apple would do that? Doesn't bigger glass mean more light and better image? Why downgrade the size of the lens? 

from what i can tell and read both cameras take around the same quality photos
Which "both cameras" are you referring to? There's been 5 models of iPad, 4 with a camera.
What i just want to know is why make the glass much smaller on the ipad air.
Only Apple could answer that with any certainty.
The size of the bit of glass covering the lens and sensor doesn't necessarily affect the light, unless the smaller hole was obscuring some of it - which obviously it doesn't. The glass could be thinner, or the sensor could be closer to it. Both of which would allow more or equal amounts of light as previous cameras. You can't determine the light level just by the size of the hole in the casing. There's alot more going on that just that.
I wouldn't get too worried about it - I'm sure Apple know what they are doing...

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