Your old body choice was a fair value, but in real world operation there are a lot important captures that can be done with the iPhone Pro's multiple lenses and 45 MP that a simple prime mild telephoto (75mm at 35mm equivalence) lens simply cannot capture (e.g.macro, normal, any wide angle, real telephoto). And in real world operation the ability to aggressively crop 45MP of image data is very useful for many tasks.
The old you're just holding it wrong. Let me guess i need to download halide and lightroom to make sure my pictures are pristine? $1,100 for a phone and i need add ons lol
No you do not need add-ons, just basic photog skills.
It also happens because the camera tries to make HDR in every scenario. Maybe you just want to keep the face darker in a backlit situation, or even just to have a silhouette as your artistic approach, and even if you manually lower the exposure, the camera will brighten up the face/body artificially with horrible look and Colors. This is so annoying.
Oh that's right, why didn't I think of that myself. Then tell me your trick how pictures don't look overprocessed? Maybe with the good old bumper from the iPhone 4?
In my experience it is vice versa: 24 MP shots from old body can be cropped 2x more than 48MP from an iphone - just regular physics of module size and lens size and their resolution ability.
Sorry, I did not intend to diss 24 MP, which is fine (although I love the crop flexibility 45 MP brings). It is 75mm mild telephoto (equivalent) that I find to be very limiting. I recommend that folks learn on a fast normal lens, and it is great for individual artistry. But I find having a wide range of focal lengths essential for day-to-day work.
Sorry but I do not have any instant tips for you to improve your image captures, and my name is not Tim, and I have literally thousands of iPhone 14 Pro pix taken for work purposes that definitely are not "...all pictures since the iPhone 13 and the missing function to disable Smart HDR look catastrophic and aggressively processed."
The camera is a tool. You have to control it to produce the image that you visualize before taking the shot. It’s all in the technique, evaluating the scene to get an idea how to adjust your camera to give you great results. A $5000 Sony or Nikon camera does not take better photos than a $1500 camera in the hands of an amateur. It’s the photographer that controls it. If Apple, Nikon , or Sony made cameras that did everything for you, you’ll never learn anything about photography or light. Add ons as you mentioned (Halide, Moment, ProCamera) take the iPhone camera beyond its basic capabilities. They give you more features to better control the camera. Features like manual focus, proper exposure control, and hard selecting one of the cameras, etc…. Especially when external lenses are applied to the iPhone like a telephoto, or anamorphic lens, etc, then you’ll need a third party app to use those. Or you can put the phone camera in “automatic mode” and hope for the best. Sure you'll get some shots that look great, but most of the time, they will disappoint you due to the lack of camera control and experience. I’m a photographer, I always get great results from my cameras because of my training. Put me in a mechanic garage and hand me a few wrenches and tell me to fix a vehicle, my results aren’t going to be very good. What? They don’t make one wrench that fixes everything, I have to use add-on’s?
Pro max ultra über plus are all just words to get people to move up the pricing structure. The “iPhone 14 Pro Max” is the iPhone 14. The “iPhone 14 Pro”, “14 Plus”, and “iPhone 14” are an iPhone 14 with features removed to create an economic ladder. They want to have the maximum possible percentage of iPhone sales be of this max price model, so it needs to be made for the general consumer. The names are just to make you think you get extra features. Pro isn’t for Pros. Ultra isn’t for Ultra’s
For sure it was hyperbole! They should go look at the original iPhone camera and compare. 🙄🤪😆
Nah. It’s still post-processing. If someone hands you a photo file that they did some processing in and asked you to finish up, you’re still part of the post-processing portion. ;-).
I’ve scanned many a bar code on paper and packaging with the item in my lap, taped to a dinner table, etc. it’s simply a non-issue.
Completely agree. I don’t get it either. The processing it does ruins the photos. I don’t want my photos artificially brightened. I don’t want them sharpened. It’s such an obvious problem but I always assume I’m in the minority because it doesn’t show up as an issue very often for most.
I’m probably going Samsung , going back to a cheaper phone next time, unhappy with the camera, unhappy I spent so much on an iPad Pro to have a worthless device for so many things, also my iPhone 14 promax has abysmal data reception compared to my 11
I had the Xs max as well. It did fine during the day, but in low light where the iso gets upwards around 800, the photos take on a water color blotchy effect. Even individual blades of grass in the yard were mushy and unresolved. Plus the Xs didn’t shoot raw. My brother had the Xs also, photos of his dog on the floor in a well lit room had the blotchy effect as well. Bad enough to where the pattern on the floor couldn’t be distinguished. I don’t think the Xs was all that great. I suppose to the untrained eye, all photos from the previous iPhone look good.
