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Seriously who cares, iphone photo quality has been great for the consumer since probably iphone 5. Those who care about higher quality than that are probably carrying some mult-hundred/thousand dollar cameras with them and don't want to use their iPhone camera.
 
Don’t let these beautiful photos distract from the absolute disaster that is the selfie camera! It’s a body positivity nightmare!

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Lol its an artifact from the new super hdr mode only and more noise reduction than before... Nothing to do with a "beauty" filter that so many morons think..
 
I must destroy the likes and compliments here and I am not sorry.

The details are maybe enough for Instagram, but you absolutely cannot show this to any serious photography website.

This is simply terrible even with great light conditions.

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Now look what my iPhone X does, in the late evening forest.

Its still terrible, but considering the light conditions and my "old" iPhone, its much better than Xs.

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Yeah, that's the whole point. 99% of people use their phone camera for nothing higher resolution than Instagram. Are you mounting museum grade prints from your phone? I don't get what you want here.

I rather enjoyed how you cropped my photo to remove the dynamic range seen in the sky and yet left your photo uncropped. Good job. Also I had already cropped in some on the original because I couldn't get quite as close as I wanted to before the butterfly flew away, so it lost some detail there. It was a really small butterfly. But for a phone it's good.

If you want a great shot use a real camera. Like I said before in this thread, it can't match my Sony a7R III. The shot below is even heavily cropped and lowered in quality for the forums and using the cheaper 50mm f/2.8 macro. But for most people the iPhone is great for photography and only getting better each year.

Edit: Had to move the photo upload to MacRumors because it wasn't loading properly.

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Yeah, that's the whole point. 99% of people use their phone camera for nothing higher resolution than Instagram. Are you mounting museum grade prints from your phone? I don't get what you want here.]

Few of my iPhone X pictures are used by National Geographic and are exclusive at Getty.
Good enough for the "old" iPhone, huh?
I know a plenty of people who do the same.
No need to tell me about those legendary "99%".
Its a myth, just like the myth about camera improvements of Xs.
 
Few of my iPhone X pictures are used by National Geographic and are exclusive at Getty.
Good enough for the "old" iPhone, huh?
I know a plenty of people who do the same.
No need to tell me about those legendary "99%".
Its a myth, just like the myth about camera improvements of Xs.
So you’re telling me that 1% of iPhone owners are professional iPhone photographers working for National Geographic and Getty Images? Apple sells around 230 million iPhones per year. To be conservative, let’s assume these pros upgrade yearly. So you’re telling me that there are 2,300,000 professional photographers shooting with iPhone for major publications? No. I was being generous with 99%. It’s more like 99.99% of users are only posting to social media. The bureau of labor statistics in the U.S. lists 49,320 professional photographers in the U.S. I’d argue that we have a higher total than most developing countries, but let’s stick with the high end and extrapolate that to the world. Rounding up, that’s 1,150,000 professional photographers in the world. That is half the number that you claim use the iPhone professionally. The math doesn’t add up, and it makes even less sense when you factor in that the majority of pros use dSLRs and mirrorless cameras. You’re not as important as you think you are. Also professional photography is a dying field and the numbers are only going down yearly. It’s why I switched part way through school from photography to design, marketing, and focused on web development. It’s a secondary part of my current job.
 
After seeing your pictures, I think it was a good decision to switch.
Yeah, because you have fully evaluated my body of work? You've seen a couple iPhone snapshots and one macro photo. By saying such a thing tells me that you are no photographer as a professional would never say what you just said to me. A real professional would evaluate their peer's work and provide constructive feedback—both what works and what doesn't—and why specifically. All you said was that the iPhone XS camera looks bad. How exactly is that a reflection on me?

You have no response so you are now resorting to ad-hominem attacks. Your refusal to address my point tells me everything that I need to know—you lost the argument and are grasping at straws, likely jealous of another photographer who is also a web and app designer, a full stack web developer who is responsible for over 80 websites, a former writer for 9to5Mac, and a painter who has sold several works for thousands of dollars to private collectors in New York City. And here you are, spending your time on the internet trying to make me feel bad about myself for choosing a successful career path. It's not going to work. I am incredibly successful in many fields, photography included, and I am only becoming more successful every day as I learn new skills and abilities such as carpentry and construction when I built a 320sqft studio space in the unfinished part of basement over the summer. But congrats on being an iPhone photographer who has managed to sell a few photos. I'm sure it's really rewarding doing one thing adequately a few times.
 
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