I was at a party and taking pictures during the day & evening. Had no problems during the day or at night with the flash on, but at dusk the photos were really underexposed. Even with the flash on. Actually it didn't seem to make any difference with the flash on, to the point I thought it was broken, so I borrowed my mates with the same results. Are there any settings I can adjust or is there a 3rd party app that can help with this kind of issue.
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5s camera issues in low light
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Same thing here...even with the flash on..it will either overexpose, or under. I don't know of a fix, and tad to use my 5S's camera in daylight, using my "real" ones for more demanding light conditions.
Can always edit the picture afterward. There are plenty of good apps to make your under/over exposed photos look great.
Yeah I've got photoshop. I just didn't quite understand why it was underexposed when there was still quite a bit of daylight and the flash was on.
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Really? I don't know much about DSLR's, but I remember a while back a professional photographer running around a pub taking photos at night without a flash and the photos looked great. Very little light. I was amazed he didn't even use a flash.
There's a vast difference between the teeny weeny iPhone sensor and a DSLRs. Larger sensors can collect more light with less noise.
Every professional publication/website (plus apple) that has tested the 5s and 5c disagrees the 5c is better. I guess I'll take your word.
Thanks lol I read the reviews and wanted to try it out myself. My parents have the 5c and I have the 5s. I'm trying to figure out what's going on. Part of the problem I see with the 5s is when you shoot in Auto mode, the flash doesn't turn on to compensate. 5c works fine. In normal light the 5s flash is more pleasing to the skin tones than the 5c..
I think I will do a side by side test of 5s, 5c and 4s.
The "Camera+" app will let you set the focus and the exposure settings at different spots - it'll give you two "targets" that you can drag around the screen so that you can focus on something, say, to the left of the screen, but have the exposure be set based on something on the right of the screen. I can't remember if the app costs (I think it does, but that it's cheap, $1 or something) and very highly recommended for that specific scenario. It has some other goodies too but I haven't gotten much farther into it than that. Anyway, it's a suggestion.
I've found this to be the case as well. On New Year's Eve myself and about 10 friends went out. We got a group photo in low light at a restaurant from a 5S and it turned out terrible. Another friend was snapping pics on his 5 in the same environment and they turned out just fine. I'm more disappointed in the way that particular photo turned out though because it carried some sentimental value.
Regardless though, touching the screen on a dark area will brighten the image up some. And obviously editing after the fact helps but can make it look grainy.
Regardless though, touching the screen on a dark area will brighten the image up some. And obviously editing after the fact helps but can make it look grainy.
Part of the issue might be the true tone flash, the other part might be that the 5s has to be focused first by pressing on the screen.
I read a ton of "objective" reviews from a variety of credible websites, gadget magazines, newspapers etc etc and they were all glowingly positive about the 5s and it's camera. I'm a bit disappointed that reviewers aren't a bit more critical of Apple's products, in particularly the Iphone. I'm not saying the 5S is crap, but I spent a few months reading up about it, while I waited for my contract to run out and I never read anything that suggested it was p!sspoor in low light conditions. It was all positive, positive, positive.. Daylight shots are great and night with the tt flash are significantly better than the 5, but low light situations such as in a bar or at dusk are very average and it's mystifying this information is not readily available for Joe Public to read. This isn't a dig at Apple by the way, more of a dig at the sycophantic reviewers.
Nope I pressed the screen and whatever else you need to do. Grant it, I will not be using my iPhone to take a photo in low light
I will use my DSLR for that.
There are a lot of positives I found with the 5s though. The AE/AF lock is sweet. Slow motion video is fun to shoot. The shooting multiple images doesn't buffer down like most cameras.
There are a lot of positives I found with the 5s though. The AE/AF lock is sweet. Slow motion video is fun to shoot. The shooting multiple images doesn't buffer down like most cameras.