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iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: Scotland

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Re: iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: Scotland

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Post by 0x38B »

q-base wrote: post #168
0x38B wrote: post #167

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The crazy thing is how well libimobiledevice + AFC (1) work on Linux. All I do is plug in my iPhone and open Nautilus (2) to see a list of my apps (3) that support file sharing. The phone shows up as a camera with photos, as well. 1: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs 2: https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.Nautilus/ 3: https://nexus.armylane.com/files/Gnome-Nautilus-iPhone.png

I have to look into that. I was not aware of it. But as far as I can tell there are no image-related apps in that list you shared in your number 2 link?

Oh, good point. In my first screenshot, the iPhone shows up twice in the leftmost list - the first with your apps and the second with photos from camera roll.

I wouldn't use Nautilus to import photos, though - I'd use something like digiKam (1 - showing my connected iPhone).

The first time you connect your iPhone, it'll ask if you want to 'Trust this computer'. After trusting, you need to run 'idevicepair pair' (2) in the terminal to pair. Then your iPhone (or iPad) will show up in Nautilus.

One use case: Infuse is my iOS video player, and copying movies or serials over is as simple as connecting the iPad or iPhone and copying to Infuse's storage. It copies at 20-30 MBs/sec, which is plenty fast.

1: https://nexus.armylane.com/files/digiKam-iPhone-import.png

2: https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/libimobiledevice-utils/i...

Re: iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: Scotland

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Post by birdyrooster »

karolist wrote: post #178
gst wrote: post #131

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In Apple's video it sounds like there's 2-way communication: https://youtu.be/V35jHAkpUIk (at about 1:20 in the video)

It's two way but predefined messages only. This way apple Apple has a map of messages to some minimal bit value and saves on bandwidth. Garmin InReach allows for predefined messaging too and custom as a pay per message option, it can take 10 minutes or more to send a custom InReach message. Also, InReach uses iridium satellite network which has true global coverage whilst Apple is using Globalstar, which doesn't.

The more I read about the new functionality the more it seems you not only send predefined messages to start the conversation with emergency services but you can send arbitrary text as well.

Re: iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: Scotland

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Post by whoisburbansky »

kccqzy wrote: post #148
legohead wrote: post #49

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Is that why my wife has been complaining all her pictures make her look like she has a smooth/filter-applied face? She just switched from Android to Iphone 13. I tried playing around with the settings but couldn't make it look 'normal'.

The article actually offers a solution that you can try: > I do feel many of the images I’ve shot are a bit too processed and/or over-sharpened. When this happens, I’ve been bringing the ProRAW files into Lightroom CC and adjusting the “Apple ProRAW” profile slider to the left to reduce the HDR/sharp look if it’s too much for me. Now you have to explain what exactly ProRAW files are, how to import them to Lightroom,…

Do you really think that the intersection of folks who are going to notice that images they've shot are over-processed/sharpened and folks who know how to get ProRAW files into Lightroom isn't a circle?

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Post by kolinko »

gordon_freeman wrote: post #14
n8cpdx wrote: post #9

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Coming from a still enthusiastic tech person who loves iPhone, I don’t think it’s a you problem. This is clearly another S revision in all but name, for the second year in a row. I want to be excited but there’s nothing particularly compelling unless you’re coming from pre-2020 (or maybe pre-2019). I’m still loving my 12 mini and will probably use it for at least another year, maybe two. Compelling upgrades would be:…

I have iPhone 11 and I still don't think it is worth upgrading to 14 or 14Pro yet. I consider myself tech savvy person but I don't see a point to buy a new phone if my current phone takes good enough pics for myself and my family and friends to enjoy. Also if the speed of browsing web and opening and using apps is still good enough then what's the point of buying a new phone and polluting environment? As I see it, th…

I switched to 13 pro last year, and gave the 11 pro to my girlfriend.

There is a significant difference in cameras between the 11 and 13 - especially during the night photos. To the point where, in our case, I often need to tell my gf to use my camera for a shot when we’re together, because it will be so much better.

If you take a lot of photos then for this reason alone it’s worth to upgrade imho.

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Post by SileNce5k »

shaklee3 wrote: post #161
jasonjamerson wrote: post #52

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Pixel 6 photos are dramatically over processed. You can shoot RAW on them too, but that looks even worse.

no, iPhone is far more overprocessed. see dpreview or any other legitimate camera review site. iPhone cameras/software are just lackluster compared to the competition. things like HDR on iPhone have been bad for years.

The Pixel 6 camera is still terrible, and unless you want to edit every single picture you take, the colors are incredibly unrealistic. From what I've seen online, iPhone is not nearly as bad

Re: iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: Scotland

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Post by thefz »

itg wrote: post #25

The Verge also mentioned that Apple goes overboard when it comes to noise reduction lately with their phones. It becomes really obvious when you compare an iPhone 13 with say a Pixel phone and there have been many complaints about it. Instead it looks like they continued to double down with it on the iPhone 14. It's a shame since they have such good hardware and ruin the pics with their photo processing pipeline.

This is quite visible on the grassy ridge picture, the trail looks smudged over.

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Post by kolinko »

sedivy94 wrote: post #51
n8cpdx wrote: post #9

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Coming from a still enthusiastic tech person who loves iPhone, I don’t think it’s a you problem. This is clearly another S revision in all but name, for the second year in a row. I want to be excited but there’s nothing particularly compelling unless you’re coming from pre-2020 (or maybe pre-2019). I’m still loving my 12 mini and will probably use it for at least another year, maybe two. Compelling upgrades would be:…

I’ve leveled with myself that this is the pace of future mobile device hardware releases. “Peak phone” has been a topic of discussion for a while now. Are we there yet? I think so. Apple has gotten a lot of flack for releasing “new” hardware and software features that aren’t really new or groundbreaking. I’m starting to see the genius in their planning. The slow trickle of improvements (I like how you call them “S re…

It’s been always like that. Every other release of iPhone was called „S” for that reason.

So if there ever was a peak with iPhones, it was with the iPhone 3G, and it just went downhill from there ;)

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Post by q-base »

0x38B wrote: post #181
q-base wrote: post #168

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I have to look into that. I was not aware of it. But as far as I can tell there are no image-related apps in that list you shared in your number 2 link?

Oh, good point. In my first screenshot, the iPhone shows up twice in the leftmost list - the first with your apps and the second with photos from camera roll. I wouldn't use Nautilus to import photos, though - I'd use something like digiKam (1 - showing my connected iPhone). The first time you connect your iPhone, it'll ask if you want to 'Trust this computer'. After trusting, you need to run 'idevicepair pair' (2) i…

I had not even thought about the ability to connect my iPhone with my Ubuntu machine. But it seems like I need to look a bit more into the possibilities.

I already use digiKam for my photography workflow. It is really awesome for managing photos, adding tags etc.

For importing photos I actually use Rapid Photo Downloader in order to import photos into "date-ordered" folders. So if I can get Ubuntu to recognise my iPhone then I can probably use the same to import photos from my phone if I ever need that ability.

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Post by kaba0 »

softfalcon wrote: post #102
n8cpdx wrote: post #9

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Coming from a still enthusiastic tech person who loves iPhone, I don’t think it’s a you problem. This is clearly another S revision in all but name, for the second year in a row. I want to be excited but there’s nothing particularly compelling unless you’re coming from pre-2020 (or maybe pre-2019). I’m still loving my 12 mini and will probably use it for at least another year, maybe two. Compelling upgrades would be:…

On the note of will it be “noticeably slow in 2024” I have to say you might not even notice. I’m using an iPhone X here in 2022 and honestly other than the battery life being a bit lower than usual, the phone is super snappy, even on these latest iOS releases. It’s basically 5 years old and it’s still doing amazingly well.

Well, the iphone 11’s CPU is roughly on par with the best the Android side can offer today. So it is not that surprising, especially given apple’s care for their older devices. Even an 8 is plenty fast/smooth for usage today.

Re: iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: Scotland

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Post by kaba0 »

PapuaNewGuinea wrote: post #37
seanp2k2 wrote: post #11

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As a ~normal person who uses their phone at least 4 hours per day, it's the single most important tech device in my life. I enjoy getting the best thing out there every upgrade cycle (2 years). The progress feels incremental, but going back and using an n-1 gen phone reminds me how much slower things were. All of those extra half-second waits between interactions add up, and I enjoy having a quality camera with me wh…

Are you sure those half-second lags were there when it was new, or it’s just software becoming more inefficjent as usual, as newer models set a new performance baseline?

I don’t think any of the apps truly make an iphone from the last 4-5 years sweat at all - I would even question the “lag” parent commenter claims. It’s just probably a psychological effect of the new being better + promotion does make everything appear smoother.
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