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Question regarding the ultra wide camera - just received my 12PM today and went for a quick walk for a few test shots, the uw lens seems to be a blurry mess in the corners, see attached examples. I checked the samples on DPReview and they seem to be pretty much the same as mine, what's your experience with the ultra wide? Am I expecting too much? I have attached 100% views of the corners plus the complete image for reference...

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Restlesslegs said:
Question regarding the ultra wide camera - just received my 12PM today and went for a quick walk for a few test shots, the uw lens seems to be a blurry mess in the corners, see attached examples.
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The larger photo has a natural distortion you would usually see on a non-phone camera, so it's tolerable it's just that people expect more usability on a phone lens. It looks like it's trying to apply a digital correction that worked in reverse to worsen it. The other two really don't look anything like lens distortion to me. The warping and smearing isn't right. Did you select the Extra Wide or did you zoom out in the app?

I'd test it in settings with less information (and less nature). You're right, there are samples out there with the same issue, I think people are reading it as bokeh depth texture. Yours looks pretty bad though, so if it's reproducing it in more minimal settings, I'd consider going to Apple.
 
harmoniumfarfisa said:
The larger photo has a natural distortion you would usually see on a non-phone camera, so it's tolerable it's just that people expect more usability on a phone lens. It looks like it's trying to apply a digital correction that worked in reverse to worsen it. The other two really don't look anything like lens distortion to me. The warping and smearing isn't right. Did you select the Extra Wide or did you zoom out in the app?

I'd test it in settings with less information (and less nature). You're right, there are samples out there with the same issue, I think people are reading it as bokeh depth texture. Yours looks pretty bad though, so if it's reproducing it in more minimal settings, I'd consider going to Apple.
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Thank you for taking the time to comment - I did more tests and in other scenarios the wide angle indeed seems to perform better, so "only" challenging structures like trees etc. seem to create a problem. Interestingly, "lens correction" on or off doesn't seem to make a difference here... Anyway, we're talking about ultra wide here and there have to be some tradeoffs with such a small lens.

All in all I have to admit I'm slightly underwhelmed by the cameras, too much sharpening, exaggerated HDR effects (shadows lifted too much), no control when the 2.5 tele setting uses the actual lens or just crops the image of the main camera (which then creates sharpening artefacts in the image). Still a decent package all in all, but coming from a 6S+ I was maybe expecting too much. I have high hopes for Apple's RAW format and camera apps which give more control, right now I'm experimenting with Lightroom which I know from my RAW workflow of my full frame cameras. Let's see...
 
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