iPhone 15 Pro Why no love and excitement for 24 and 48 megapixels?

[beermode]

This is something PetaPixel and mrwhooseyourboss (sp?) went over really well. This is the first time since the Google Pixel 2 or 3 that I've been truly impressed with camera upgrades.

 

[beermode]

Live Photos are absolutely the killer. I would take them over extra quality any day. And due to the size of the sensor I’m not sure 48MP would add a meaningful amount of extra clarity over 24MP in most conditions anyways. I’ve taken some 48MP raw images to toy around with in Lightroom and while impressive I don’t find them to be notably clearer than a 24 HEIC.

Excited to have usable Live Photo wallpapers, since the ones taken on a 13P almost never turned out looking high enough quality to be a wallpaper.

HEIC kind of washes out skin textures or gets too aggressive in processing for my taste. However, that is only in certain conditions. I kind want to hone in on that so I know when to take RAW photos.

 

[jm31828]

HEIC kind of washes out skin textures or gets too aggressive in processing for my taste. However, that is only in certain conditions. I kind want to hone in on that so I know when to take RAW photos.

Would we have better results on the regular 15 (without ProRAW available to us) in using a 3rd party camera app like Halide for better HEIC results?

 

[zach-coleman]

Do you have a 15 Pro, or regular 15?

15 Pro. From what I’ve seen in samples the 1x camera results are very similar between the 15 Pro and 15.

 

[jtkiley]

I have had Live Photos disabled for as long as I can recall, thinking it was just a gimmick with no real value. However, today, I was taking photos of my nephew during his birthday celebration and missed that fleeting moment when he smiled with his teeth. While reading your post, I realized Live Photos would have saved captured that moment the way I wanted. It’s made me reconsider my stance on Live Photos. There is no degradation in quality? It's fascinating how the distinction between HEIF and RAW formats continues to blur.

I’ve tried to convince a few family members of this who believe Live Photos are a sceme by Apple to use more storage. It’s not just the photograph. They miss out on capturing early words spoken by their babies. They miss the music going on in the room or the sound of laughter from nearby friends.

If you take several Live Photos one after another IOS will let you create a video from them. It’s another really nice feature.

When a group of people pose for their picture, I start taking pictures long before they're ready. You capture all the silliness of them deciding how to line up together. Those are often the best shots.

There is no loss of quality over a non-live photo.
I can’t say enough good things about Live Photos!

I never totally got the rationale for Live Photos before having kids, but they're so amazing when you have kids or are taking photos of for family events with kids. As folks have pointed out, there are fleeting smiles, early words, and just cute moments in general. Plus, the video gets used for those autogenerated videos that Photos makes periodically. It's such an amazing feature in the right cases.

I recently sent my mother a Live Photo of my baby-becoming-toddler saying "Nana!" Then, I started getting nonstop notifications (easily hundreds) that she was adding/removing a question mark from a photo. It appears that she's holding down her finger to trigger the Live Photo and triggering a tapback in Messages, but clearly she loves the photo, having watched the video hundreds of times.

 

[zach-coleman]

I recently sent my mother a Live Photo of my baby-becoming-toddler saying "Nana!" Then, I started getting nonstop notifications (easily hundreds) that she was adding/removing a question mark from a photo. It appears that she's holding down her finger to trigger the Live Photo and triggering a tapback in Messages, but clearly she loves the photo, having watched the video hundreds of times.

Tell her she can save it to her gallery if she likes it so much 😭