I used to take that phone out of it's case and just marvel at how thin yet powerful it was.
Bigger girths are the future.
People complained that the iPhones are too thin and the battery life suffers because of it. Apple rectifies that by making the iPhone thicker and putting a larger battery in the iPhone. Larger battery = more weight. Until Apple starts using battery tech like solid state batteries, weight is always going to be an issue with larger batteries.
It's kind of obvious that night mode would yield better and more detailed results in those lighting conditions. The non-NM one doesn't have enough information to work with, while night mode stitches a couple of images and there is enough information to both remove noise and add more detail.
Great photo but it is not the optical quality we are discussing here but iOS AI intervention (oversharpening, over-HDR-ing) with native camera app.
Thanks…Just giving you options. You may have to start shooting RAW anyway. Jpeg files are usually not very good with any camera. They can be used and taken properly if you watch you highlights and shadows. Since sharpening can’t be adjusted with a jpeg file, it’s easily done in a RAW file. If the default camera in the iPhone isn’t pleasing to you and the others, hence the topic, may I recommend either the Moment or Halide apps? Full control over the camera gives the user better results…
I think all these fanboys here are missing the point. One could get very good photos - passable photos - on the previous iPhone models cameras just using the native app. With iPhone 13 PM it seems neigh impossible. Especially in indoor settings. I use my iPhone for work and pretty much every photo of the hundreds I take has been unusable whereas my previous iPhone XS Max took photos I could use with minimal work on them. Now I have to spend hours in Photoshop trying to produce something we can use on instagram etc.
I still keep an old 7 Plus as it is the most beautiful phone and love the black metal back. The new phones can't compete on design values even if they are ten times more powerful. I don't use the old 7Plus but just love looking at it! And holding it as it is so light and fits in your hand so much better than my current 13 PM.
I bought FirstLight and while the detail is indeed much better, I'm not a fan of the film simulations. They all seem yellow to me. For example, Lesko and Gypsum are compared to Portra, but Portra was very good in saturation, particularly the reds in 400ISO, but the simulations are just pale and yellow. Does Halide offer something like that?I started to use Halide 3rd party app and wow much better photos than the default Camera app
The iPhone camera and any other camera ever made is just a tool. Some people think if they buy a $5,000 camera they are going to get professional looking photos. Same with the iPhone, it’s camera is a tool. If you don’t know what you are doing or if you haven’t mastered photography or the camera, then you won’t get good results. If you remember the point & shoot pocket cameras that were popular in the 80’s & 90’s they were much like the iPhone camera today, just point and shoot, people got lousy results from those as well because of the lack of knowledge of how the camera works or they didn’t educate themselves on how to become a better photographer. All I see here are mostly snapshots, no technique or planned shots. Some are better than others. Photography requires patience and skill and a lot of passion. I talk to a lot of people publicly that have the iPhone 12 or 13 pro max and mention how great the camera is and I usually get the reply that they hardly take photos with it! I think to myself, why get the pro model if you aren’t going to take photos and take advantage of the cameras?
You don’t turn it off, you only need to know when it’s time to use it. If the scene is too dark and requires an iso higher than 2688 (max iso of the 3x camera), the telephoto should not be used in the default camera app unless it can be set to night mode. If you want full control over your cameras in any situation, you’ll need to use the Halide or Moment app to hard select your camera and adjust them manually to get the best results.
