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iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review

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Re: iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review

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Post by wrboyce »

ioulian wrote: post #75

The pictures do look good, the colors are nice and the small image on the page is nice. But I haven't seen any 100% crops or full images. it's there that you'll see that the image is worse than a DSLR or another camera with a big lens and sensor. I can get nice pictures (= vibrant and nice colors) with any camera, what I can't get is a sharp image, with sharp edges. I went to a trip with my Android Phone and DSLR, an…

FWIW there are multiple links to reviews with full-size images in these comments.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review

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Post by tasuki »

celeritascelery wrote: post #29
truth_seeker wrote: post #26

I recently started appreciating 60fps screen but, iPhone 11 came up with 240 fps Galaxy Note10+ came up with 960fps and now Huawei Mate 30 Pro with 7680 fps

At what point is it no longer noticeable?

Very early, but that's beside the point. The point is one can make a slow-motion video out of a high-fps one.

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Post by scott_s »

mewse-hn wrote: post #41

How could anyone read this without knowing it's an advertisement: "today I’m just as thrilled to be putting an entirely new Ultra Wide lens in my pocket. It gives us another format to tell the story, another perspective to visualize, and a better rounded tool for doing our best creative work."

I'm not sure what you mean. I understand it to be a review by a professional photographer - but one with an obvious bias towards Apple, as they have been a client of his, he uses their phone's cameras in his work, and he has a book about how to take pictures with their phones. But that does not make it an advertisement, as far as I know, he is not paid by Apple, nor did Apple provide the phone or control what he said.

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Post by frereubu »

_coveredInBees wrote: post #62

I think the iPhone 11 makes some good advances as outlined in the linked article, but a lot of the pictures didn't particularly wow me at all from a camera capabilities perspective. A bunch of the images at the top of the article are nice, but that is entirely due to the photographer's skill at composing aesthetically pleasing shots and have little to do with the actual capabilities of the iPhone 11. As someone who o…

The original image of the person on the boat at dusk is 1000 x 667 pixels, so I'm pretty sure they cropped that. It's also being displayed at 1500 pixels wide, so it's being enlarged from the original. It's a Squarespace site, and I wouldn't mind betting that either Squarespace or the author did some compression on the photo before they uploaded it so the page wasn't slow to load too. I'm not sure there's much you can tell from the quality of that image.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review

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Post by nradov »

criddell wrote: post #43
jug wrote: post #35

I feel for the compact camera manufacturers. Smartphones killed the 2/3" sensor market. Now they've killed the 1" sensor market too. Micro 4/3 is stale with no major sensor advancements for years now. What's left, APS-C and up?

I feel for all camera manufacturers. Why isn't there a Canon or Nikon or Sony cloud service where photos are sent to? Why haven't the big camera companies embraced computation in their cameras? Do DSLR bodies even have GPS capabilities for tagging photos? It feels like there's no innovation in the camera space outside of Apple and Google.

Very few DSLR bodies have GPS capability built in. This is kind of stupid because integrating a modern GNSS receiver would have only a trivial impact on size, weight, cost, and battery life. The odd thing is that GPS is somewhat common on much cheaper compact cameras.

Some of DSLR manufacturers do offer fragile, awkward GPS accessories that you can plug in externally. And they generally provide some sort of geo-tagging feature in the software included with cameras.

GPS does have some limitations for photography because it takes a while to lock on and doesn't work indoors. Modern smartphones can achieve much better location accuracy due to using multiple means. So the ideal solution would probably be for the camera to obtain location data from the phone via Bluetooth.

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Post by samvher »

fock wrote: post #50
samvher wrote: post #2

These night mode shots are seriously impressive. This might give DSLR manufacturers something to catch up with.

From a technical point of view I'm quite sure my >10 years old Rebel XSi will yield similar photos after editing the raw-file. If you are impressed by this you're probably not really following the tech, don't have any clue about image processing and are just blindly following what Apples advertising is selling you. Most of the "cool" iphone-pictures in non-optimal lighting are about 50% post-processing and they show…

Thanks for the kind words! I would honestly be curious to see a low light comparison with (older or newer) DSLRs. You might be right that the comparisons on this blog post exaggerate the performance because the XS is just terrible, but the process described in the post where a series of images are merged together in post processing and you can make long-exposure hand-held shots is just not something that's going to work in DSLRs easily. I can imagine that there are situations where this would make certain shots feasible that would have motion blur on a DSLR. Then again, I've imagined wrong before.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review

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Post by pas »

mewse-hn wrote: post #41

How could anyone read this without knowing it's an advertisement: "today I’m just as thrilled to be putting an entirely new Ultra Wide lens in my pocket. It gives us another format to tell the story, another perspective to visualize, and a better rounded tool for doing our best creative work."

I think almost anyone reading it will feel that it's drenched in corp-o-speak, and will simply ignore most of these paragraphs.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review

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Post by ldrndll »

chadash wrote: post #77
jonlucc wrote: post #4

The photography in these kinds of reviews is amazing, and the camera looks pretty stellar compared to the XS, but I find myself reading them wondering if it will make my pictures any better. I'm a mediocre photographer at best, and I'm certainly not going to be able to capture many images like the ones in this review.

I moved to a Pixel 3 last year, another phone known for having a good camera. I find that the automated settings take much better pictures than I was able to do before. Am I taking professional level pics? Not even close. But I get excellent everyday photos that are leagues above my previous phone. It sounds like this latest iPhone does even better (although I'm sure the upcoming Pixel 4 will have a few tricks up its…

Yeah, exactly this. I mostly take photos of my kids using Portrait mode on the iPhone. People often comment on how good the photos look, and I’ve done nothing special beyond switch to Portrait mode.

Re: iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review

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Post by leesalminen »

scott_s wrote: post #84
mewse-hn wrote: post #41

How could anyone read this without knowing it's an advertisement: "today I’m just as thrilled to be putting an entirely new Ultra Wide lens in my pocket. It gives us another format to tell the story, another perspective to visualize, and a better rounded tool for doing our best creative work."

I'm not sure what you mean. I understand it to be a review by a professional photographer - but one with an obvious bias towards Apple, as they have been a client of his, he uses their phone's cameras in his work, and he has a book about how to take pictures with their phones. But that does not make it an advertisement, as far as I know, he is not paid by Apple, nor did Apple provide the phone or control what he said…

How did he get hands on a phone that hasn’t been released yet if Apple didn’t provide it?
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