To my eyes the iPhone 5 still looks MUCH better and more natural. It is TOTALLY natural to have flare of a particular color with different lenses. I think that's what Apple is referring to. Folks really like to gang up on the mistakes in their releases. Maps deserves the pile-up. Lens flare does not. It is natural and you will find it even on an expensive camera.
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Apple Publicly Responds to Complaints of Purple Lens Flare on iPhone 5 Photos
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Oh, look! A re-cropping of photos from the article that attempt to make the framing differences less apparent, but still fails to do so! Check out the position of the road and trees in both pictures, the photos were taken at different angles. (Which oddly enough, is *exactly* what Apple, and any skilled photographer, would tell you to do to avoid this effect.)
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Look, yet *another* re-cropping of some photos from the web, which are taken with the cameras pointed at different angles! (Exactly what Apple has suggested, and any skilled photographer would suggest to avoid the problem.)
Careful with the Einstein quote, it's double-edged, and can cut its wielder just as easily as its target.
You're doing the right thing and avoiding putting the sun at the wrong angle relative your lens assembly. If you did the same thing these 'photographers' are doing, you'd see similar effects, even with your Canon lenses.
Why should they? You guys don't produce nearly as much profit as the consumer market. Apple is a business. They are not a charitable organization catering to self-satisfied "professionals".
You think Apple owes you something? I got news for you: The only people that Apple owes anything to are the guys on Wall Street who own the company. The pension funds, the hedge funds, and the other institutional investors.
Sheesh.
Even a non-Pro can look at those pictures and see they're not 'identical circumstances'. The angle at which the photos were taken is significantly different. (Even when the photos are cropped to try to *hide* that fact, it's still easily apparent. More so when looking at the originals.)
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The photos you're using (and re-cropping) to 'demonstrate' that the issue is somehow 'unique' to the iPhone 5 are piss-poor for that purpose. The angle the photos were taken at changes *significantly* between the two photos. (Where's the road in both pictures? Where's the corner of the roof in both pictures?)
Since this effect is *highly* dependent upon the angle at which the light enters the lens, it's no wonder that both of these photos don't show the same effect.
Other photos, which *do* carefully frame the bright light source the same way, *do* show the same effect (on a wide variety of cameras).
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It still *is* an issue on digital cameras. The coatings help *reduce* the issue, but they can't eliminate it completely. Larger lenses have room for internal baffles which help absorb incident light, rather than allowing it to be reflected back on the camera's sensor, which also help reduce the effect, but even *those* can't eliminate it completely.
While being Apple must be great in a lot of ways, this is one that must be a real pain -- idiots who complain about your product when they are completely clueless about how to use it. What next -- "Apple Responds to Complaints about Aluminum Case Denting when Used as a Hammer"?
Dude, I know -- it was a parody. I figured that the name of the fictitious interviewee, "Mike Rofoni", along with complaints about the phone's inability for "near-field recording of grenade impacts, low-flying passenger jets and Harley-Davidson engines with the muffler removed" were dead giveaways.
Many ignorant posts here from iPhone "photographers" who know nothing about photography, lens flare, coatings, or how an image sensor works. Those of us who have been taking professional calibre photos with pro DSLR cameras are very well aware of the positive and negative effects of pointing your camera at the sun or another bright light source.
Instead of blaming Apple, why don't you get an education?
Instead of blaming Apple, why don't you get an education?
Any light source like a lamp or light fixture can cause this dumbass. Stop trying to minimize Apples screwups fan boy. They pay people tro dothat for them.
This is completely stupid. People who complain about this obviously are not familiar with some basics of photography. What I see in those two pictures is a good increase in contrast. That's a good thing in my book. Sometimes that comes with a trade off with respect to flare etc.
My favorite $1600 lens does the same thing.
Other than that people need to get a life. It's a little phone camera for Pete's sake.
My favorite $1600 lens does the same thing.
Other than that people need to get a life. It's a little phone camera for Pete's sake.
More like a dull and boring person complaining their 'phone conversations don't sparkle with wit!
A bad workman blames his tools.
SHHHH! Logic is going to hurt some people's brains!
Sense, you have it ... I'm happy to report.
A lot of people are making similar assertions about these photos, and the assertions should be testable.
They appear to be saying that the purple lens flare on the i5 is a product of a specific and very narrow angle at which the light is hitting the lens. Presumably a slight adjustment of this angle would result in the more pleasing pure white lens flare seen in the i4s shot.
Similarly, the i4s would allegedly show purple flare if the angle was only slightly different (ie the same as the i5).
I would like to see this hypothesis tested. For a start though, are there any good examples available online of pictures taken with the i5 which show significant pure white lens flare of the type seen in the i4s photo? This would at least start to demonstrate that the intense purple colour (which is the real aesthetic problem) will only be seen in certain circumstances and not in all situations where the i5 lens is flaring. If on the other hand all examples of i5 lens flare are purple there would seem to be a difference.
This has nothing to do with it being a digital camera or not. My film cameras do flare also when I point them directly at the sun. People need to get over this "made for digital" business and the old tale that modern lenses need to be better because digital is "better". Most lens designs go back decades and not that much has changed. Yes, coatings are better now. But that has nothing to do with digital or film photography.
On a tiny little lens and tiny little sensor all this doesn't matter much anyway.
DP Review's take on "Purple Haze-gate", in case anyone's interested. They rule out blooming and chromatic aberration.
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/6867454450/quick-review-apple-iphone-5-camera/3
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/6867454450/quick-review-apple-iphone-5-camera/3
Well, it isn't their fault, unless you're hell-bent on blaming Apple for adhering to light particle physics.
If you're trying to take a picture directly into the sun, you're an idiot. Or you're experimenting and just having some fun. Or you're using a real camera and adjusting ISO/shutter speed settings.
Lol I know.. and even on a $5,000 camera you still have to adjust settings before you could actually take a picture w/o that kind of flare.
You have that problem too?! Mine's a Nikon... but I'm as pissed as you are.
and here we have idiots paying for lens flare plug-ins, while iphone users have it for free on EVERY shot and whine about it