iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review

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Post by florianmari » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 2:52 PM UTC

iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review
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Re: iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review

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Post by jseliger » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

In some ways, this feels like the reviews of the last couple of generations of iPhone: it can work really well in very good light and at typical web resolutions. The photo of the woman in the parka is very impressive as a technical demonstration but is also pretty blurry/smeared, to my eye. As an only camera, it's probably the best or near the best of the phones.

Re: iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review

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Post by ponker » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 5:25 PM UTC

Imagine if Apple or Google shipped a digital SLR with all of their software magic onboard (or executed on a paired phone).

Re: iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review

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Post by jeffbee » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 5:26 PM UTC

ponker wrote: post #3

Imagine if Apple or Google shipped a digital SLR with all of their software magic onboard (or executed on a paired phone).

The ability to acquire a raw image over USB from a real camera would be amazing.

Re: iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review

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Post by jedberg » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC

jeffbee wrote: post #4

ponker wrote: post #3

Imagine if Apple or Google shipped a digital SLR with all of their software magic onboard (or executed on a paired phone).

The ability to acquire a raw image over USB from a real camera would be amazing.

The "real" camera would need a lot of sensors in it, because I think the software works by combining the image data with the motion data of the camera to stabilize it.

Re: iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review

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Post by shen » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

ponker wrote: post #3

Imagine if Apple or Google shipped a digital SLR with all of their software magic onboard (or executed on a paired phone).

It will be dismissed as a toy by your typical dpreview crowd because “software magic” is the antithesis of specs.

Re: iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review

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Post by ciarannolan » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

I wish these reviews would post the full res images. I clicked "View Image" on a few of these to see just the photo but they're all cropped and compressed.

Almost any flagship phone can produce similar pics to the ones in this article. The devil is really in the details now.

Re: iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review

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Post by ffritz » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

jeffbee wrote: post #4

ponker wrote: post #3

Imagine if Apple or Google shipped a digital SLR with all of their software magic onboard (or executed on a paired phone).

The ability to acquire a raw image over USB from a real camera would be amazing.

With raw image, you do not mean setting the DSLR to shoot raw? Because you can get those files obviously.

Re: iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 5:33 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #5

jeffbee wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ability to acquire a raw image over USB from a real camera would be amazing.

The "real" camera would need a lot of sensors in it, because I think the software works by combining the image data with the motion data of the camera to stabilize it.

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Re: iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review

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Post by aloknnikhil » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 5:33 PM UTC

ponker wrote: post #3

Imagine if Apple or Google shipped a digital SLR with all of their software magic onboard (or executed on a paired phone).

I think there was a thread here on the disadvantages of all the software processing in phone cameras today. I had a similar experience trying to capture the orange skies when the wildfires were raging here in California. My iPhone corrected every single image to remove the orange and replace it with a dark gray sky. It looked more overcast than apocalyptic. But I'm not fully against the idea of shipping some of those algorithms in a DSLR, especially the Pixel's low light photography.