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Other Photos taken with the 12 Pro Max only
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Grumpy cat. Just a lamp on in room.
Here are some night shots I just did with my iPhone 12 Pro Max using night mode and using the Nightcap camera app. You can find the nightcap app on the App Store, it really works fantastically well for star trails and cleaner shots of the stars. I did use a tracking mount for a couple of these that were four minutes long. That way I wouldn’t get star trails. I’ve never had an iPhone that would start picking up the star clouds of the Milky Way like they did here at my house, but my neighborhood and area is pretty light polluted.
The first, & fourth image the iPhone was on my small skywatcher Star Adventurer tracker using the Nightcap app, star trails mode. The fourth image deserve the Hyades and the Pleiades using the iPhone 12 Pro Max with the 2.5 X camera
The first, & fourth image the iPhone was on my small skywatcher Star Adventurer tracker using the Nightcap app, star trails mode. The fourth image deserve the Hyades and the Pleiades using the iPhone 12 Pro Max with the 2.5 X camera
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Amazing! Still haven't taken any night shot but at least I know this phone can take some good pics at night.
Look at all that detail. Not at all like Samsung with their smoothening effect. I can't stand that.Grumpy cat. Just a lamp on in room.
I’m not a photographer so I kinda stink at framing shots. But I went on purpose to a day trip and ended up in a mountain town in Cali in the evening. I want to push the phone and it’s clearly more detailed than my xs max. Very happy with the results. Sometimes it lights up the image too much making it lighter than what it actually. But the detail is present. I had the xs max taking pics as well and it came off as muddy and less detail.
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I took some photos at the same exact time on my iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro takes clearer low-light photos. It's weird. The preview for the iPhone 12 Pro Max before you take the photo looks clearer, but the final result is smudged like it was overly aggressive with noise reduction. There is some noise on the 11 Pro, but the detail is so much higher.
Haha love the Bulldog! I’ll have to get some new pics of my fatboy.
Molly Dog and me.
Molly Dog thinks she’s really a sly one.
(Photos taken at a 4 way stop with no one around.)
Molly Dog thinks she’s really a sly one.
(Photos taken at a 4 way stop with no one around.)
Same on the 12 pro. Hopefully when Apple releases ProRAW, all of that will resolve it as there should be no processing done to the image.
Quite the opposite. You can shoot RAW today, and that is your traditional unprocessed - it bypasses all of the computational photography entirely. You mostly end up with some very noisy images that require an immense amount of work to match what the camera does shooting HEIC/JPEG. They've had this for a while - it just hasn't been very easy to work with.
ProRAW will pass along what is effectively an enhanced RAW image. It will carry a payload of info around Apple's color science, noise reduction, depth data, etc. And it will carry over all the computational photography magic. So it's pre-processed, but favorably. In theory, it should work more like what you'd expect to see from a dedicated digital camera.
Ahh, thank you for clarifying that! My bad. I failed to elaborate further that with ProRAW we will be able to have more control with post-processing rather than having software processing it for us, which seems to be aggressive with noise reduction. I assume ProRAW is essentially RAW but with Apple’s “pro” moniker?
