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All of the New iPhone 13 Camera Features: Macro, Cinematic Mode, Photographic Styles, Sensor Improvements and More

I didn’t hear anything about USB-C on the iPhone, is it still a lightning port for a 1 TB option? o_O
 
When will Apple Event be “shot on iPhone”?

At this point, all the touting of camera quality should be good enough for Tim. The wild drone videos made “why not iPhone?” conspicuous; dramatic shots of pretty women dancing in deserts etc raises question of why - if not showcasing the new product?
 
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What is up with that little "open spot" on the camera bump? Anyone notice that? Not the LED flash. It almost looks like a heat sink vent. Is it a microphone, perhaps?
 
What's Samsung going to snark at this year?
I predict they do a "iPhone 13 is boring, what happened to their innovation" campaign.
Then in 6 months bring out a new phone which is nothing more than a camera and screen upgrade too.
Monkey see, monkey do.
 
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Macro is what Huawei had like 4-5 years ago on the Huawei P30 Pro. Dual SIM card features have been available on many Chinese smartphones for many years now. In another 1-2 years they will introduce telescope/periscope which Huawei also had on their P30 Pro many years ago. Start with Macro on one lens this year and add a telescope/periscope one next year or year after. Probably do x5 then a year after do x10 for marketing purposes so they can say we doubled the zoom feature. Still waiting for USB-C port but hey we got 8GB or RAM this year :)
 
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Cinematic Mode - Uses rack focus to seamlessly shift the focus from one subject to another when capturing video. It holds focus on the subject while blurring the background, and can automatically change the focus when a new subject is about to enter the scene. Blur and focus can be adjusted after capturing video as well through the Photos app.
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Why is no one pointing out that strands of hair look like a blurry mess when cinema mode is enabled, especially in the first shot. This phone is perfect if you have an all-bald cast.

Just once (once!) I'd like Apple to demo its shallow-depth-of-field fakery using people with REAL HAIR, rather than actors and models who are bald, wearing tight caps, or sporting perfectly tight or slick-and-flat hairstyles. The softballs they lob to the algorithm are pretty misleading: when we get these phones out into the real world where there's real hair (and sometimes real wind blowing it around), the depth-map cuts never look very good.
 
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DeepIn2U said:
13 mini 256/512GB … pay day is this week.

ooooh wait a minute. No Canadian carrier deals yet, probably next week and I’m on prepaid and credit is a LOT better so the 13 Pro 256GB in Blue just possibly may be an option. Psst don’t tell my Son else he’d take that option away from me. Lol.

we still don’t get IUP in Canada and APR Apple Financing through a 3rd party here is shortened to 6mths now. It’s doable but with third party financing not sure how they will rate me, credit is a very wish washy thing here in Canada.
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I'm the same, 13 mini but 128 GB. I'm waiting until more reviews and battery tests come, I would be interested in the 12 but the 128 GB costs $70 CAD MORE than the 13 mini for the same storage. Or the iPhone 11 could be another option for me if I want a big screen.
 
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Does the mini have 2x optical zoom? I use that the most and can't tell what I'm losing going from a 11 Pro to the mini. Can anyone confirm?
 
Actually you guys are lying. Night mode first appeared on Telephoto on iPhone 11 Pro and this phone still has it. (I own it and use NM on Telephoto to shoot stars)
 
They really buried the lede on the Pro cameras.

I watched the keynote, read heaps of commentary, before finally finding out that all the former exclusive iPhone 12 Pro Max camera features, are now included on the regular iPhone 13 Pro (eg: lidar, ois).

That is major news for buyers who want the great camera system but not the mega size of the Max.
 
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A tiny camera with a tiny lens and sensor is never going to collect enough light in a reasonable amount of time to be useful for astrophotography. Physics just won’t allow it. If you compare a typical smartphone sensor coupled to a 12mm f/1.8 (full frame equivalent lens, actually it is only about 1.9mm focal length due to tiny sized camera) to an actual full frame camera 12mm f/1.8 lens, the full frame lens lets in 39x more light. Imagine looking through a pinhole in a piece of cardboard and comparing that to looking through 1 inch hole in another piece of cardboard. You will see a lot more light looking through the much larger hole. Same thing with cameras. The bigger the hole (aperture opening) the more light that will make it to the sensor. These tiny smartphone lenses just don’t let in enough light. The phone can compensate a little bit through artificially brightening the image through in-camera processing, but not that much, and what they do via this processing lowers the over all image quality. It sounds good in their BS marketing blurbs, but in reality smartphone cameras are terrible in low light situations. If they ever bump the sensor size up to a 1” sensor, then they will be much better, but then the lenses will need to be a lot bigger. So I doubt we will ever see smartphone cameras that do well in low light.
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Of course that's true, but it's nevertheless impressive what could be done already with even an already outdated device like my secondary one, a Google Pixel 3a of 2019. I think that's enough for decorative purposes. ;-)
 

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I switch to a new iPhone every 2 years. I skipped iPhone 12 Pro Max as it didn't have a 120hz display.
Going from iPhone XS Max to iPhone 13 Pro Max is going to be goooooode...
 
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The iPhone 13 and 13 mini feature a dual-lens camera system. The Wide lens features an f/1.6 aperture, while the Ultra Wide features an f/2.4 aperture. The updated Ultra Wide camera offers better low light performance, and the updated Wide camera lets in 47 percent more light.
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The max apertures are exactly the same as the lenses on my iPhone 11. How do these new lenses offer so much better low light photography (it says they let in more light) when they appear to be the same?
 
appleguy123 said:
Does anyone know about the telephoto performance? Why did the aperture get so much smaller compared to last year(f/2.8 vs f/2.2 on the 12 Pro) does the difference in optical zoom cause/compensate for this or will this lens have poorer low light performance because of it?
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You have answered yourself here. Zoom always has less aperture than prime.

I believe it's only half a stop darker. Not a big deal when you get 3X zoom.

Edit: It isn't a zoom. it's just more telephoto. My mistake.
 
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I just looked at their iphone 13 Pro page and all of the Night Mode photos are front lit with artificial light. That is cheating. Duh, shine a light on an object in a dark location, snap a photo, then claim it is due to Night Mode. Total BS. I bet the average iPhone user will never be able to duplicate those professionally taken and studio staged photos. I also bet they took multiple photos for each scene and stacked them for an HDR effect. Not to mention it is a given they had professionals post process them out of camera. Typical marketing BS.
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Typically demo photo of iPhone on Apple website weren't post processed by something like Photoshop though and that's the point, to show what camera can do.

(yeah they use lighting but I'm not convinced on post)
 
Rafagon said:
Why is slow motion still limited to 240 fps? I'm sure that the new chip could easily handle 480 fps!
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Wow. I remember shooting commercial TV film using Mitchell camera at 128 fps and it looks like a miracle. Now people want 480 fps on their phone? 😳
 
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