Apple Announces iPhone 11 Night Mode Photo Challenge

[mistercrabby]

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[Unregistered 4U]

Can you imagine how much better the A7Riv could be if Apple’s image processing team could get ahold of that 61MP sensor and could work directly with the team making the optics?!

I’ve thought this ever since I wondered if the extra zoom on my camcorder was worth most of the other tradeoffs. I would love to be able to connect a “dead” lens to my iOS device and have it light up with all it’s features. I wouldn’t even mind if I was limited to using my iPad’s USB-C connection for the bandwidth it offers.

 

[Cloudane]

Is there a way to permanently disable night mode?

Night mode, with its long exposure time, has ruined so many of my photos of my kids by introducing blur. I turn it off but it is always turning itself back on. Terrible!

I was getting half tempted to get an iPhone 11 (in addition to my Android phone because I switch back and forth too often and figure I might as well just have both) but honestly this is a deal breaker.

Bet it'll be one of those things they're saving for the next iOS version so that they can do the keynote and say "now you can disable night mode for more than one shot at a time!" to a standing ovation. Seen this behaviour from Apple many times before and it's one of their most frustrating aspects

 

[Unregistered 4U]

"now you can disable night mode for more than one shot at a time!"

You can do this now and as long as the Camera is being used, it doesn’t come back on. If you switch away from the Camera and RIGHT back, it retains Night Mode off. If you switch away for a longer time (or kill Camera), it’s active again.

Thing is, there’s a setting for Photos that Preserves Creative Controls (filter, aspect ratio, light/depth) rather than automatically reset. I think that setting should also turn off Night Mode, but it doesn’t. I’m on the beta, so I’ll enter that as a bug

I know it doesn’t work for younger folks, but I’ve shown older folks the results I get from Night Mode and now they happily sit or stand more still to capture the look! Then they say “That’s a good pic! Send me that.” LOL

 

[Cloudane]

You can do this now and as long as the Camera is being used, it doesn’t come back on. If you switch away from the Camera and RIGHT back, it retains Night Mode off. If you switch away for a longer time (or kill Camera), it’s active again.

Thing is, there’s a setting for Photos that Preserves Creative Controls (filter, aspect ratio, light/depth) rather than automatically reset. I think that setting should also turn off Night Mode, but it doesn’t. I’m on the beta, so I’ll enter that as a bug

I know it doesn’t work for younger folks, but I’ve shown older folks the results I get from Night Mode and now they happily sit or stand more still to capture the look! Then they say “That’s a good pic! Send me that.” LOL

Ah right, that's not SO bad if it keeps it with the camera open but I can still see it getting in the way of "spur of the moment" shots where you want to take a quick snap of a pet indoors for example before it moves and does something else, and you've not used the camera for a bit so it decides to do a night shot and blurs the subject.

I have a Nightscape mode on my Android phone and it's brilliant (and some younger people are capable of being still for a few seconds ) but I like that it's a manual thing I choose to use as not everything is suitable for a 1-3 second exposure.