Apple Publicly Responds to Complaints of Purple Lens Flare on iPhone 5 Photos

[BC2009]

When did Consumer Reports fire all the idiots and start producing fair and non-sensationalist reviews again?

http://news.consumerreports.org/ele...roblem-isnt-limited-just-to-the-iphone-5.html

iPhone 5 has no more lens flare than other smartphones. Who would have thunk it?

 

[Crzyrio]

even so, a DSLR (or any camera for that matter) is going to have lens flair if you shoot directly at the ****** sun!

people are unbelievable.

What garbage slr are you using if it is only $500?

Except that it does. I get lens flares on my D3 as well, albeit white flares.

Sadly that is today's mentality, if you are too ignorant to use a tool properly blame the manufacture. It happens with cell phones, power tools, lawn mowers and just about everything else. It is the wonderful world of entitlements, everybody is entitled to be stupid without repercussions.

My $800 Canon EOS SLR does the same thing! I am going to sue Canon!

Even those cameras get lens flare. Although, you can put a hood on it.

Reading a post in another forum and the owner of a Nikon D800 complained of purple fringing in the flare - and thats a $3,000 camera!!!

lol I log on to my account today and see 7 notifications with quote notifications on this post and i just had a good laugh.

My post was pure sarcasm I completely agree with most of you. I simply got tired of educating ignorant people on the basics of cameras.

Also I am no professional photographer, my 500$ Canon T3 satisfies my needs

 

[SvP]

So you dont know the problem, but you do know it wasntr a flow and people complaining are sheep while apple was right?



The problem was real and it was clearly a flaw/design issue as it was easily fixed .

http://gizmodo.com/5571171/iphone-4-loses-reception-when-you-hold-it-by-the-antenna-band
http://news.consumerreports.org/ele...verified-consumer-reports-labs-quick-fix.html


Not really a solution for a portable device now is it?

A bumper case solved it easy enough, but I was more talking about how apple adressed the issue : they never admitted it was the design and pointing at a different issue (with simular results) among competitors



Some coincidence ;-)

But yes this is subjective.



Apple can claim all it want, after all its still a company that just wants profit.

I would be quite reluctant to take any company (certainly one like apple who has shown in the past to ignore or avoid talking about design issues) at its word to accuratly descrive issues.

For this reason I think its vital that people independant of the company that can loose moneybecause of the issue find and deal with the real issue at hand.




Depends, if it really is because they used different material and its rare (and the lense is stronger and less prone to scratching) its a trade off wich I can understand.

If its just a coating issue (some say because its a differen material it should be coated different and perhaps apple didnt realise this) or something else they could have prevented and it actually hampers the usability then its not OK .

I do know the "problem". I just don't think it's a problem any more than "after 12 hours of use my battery runs out" or "my phone is made of glass so it breaks easily". And as this IS a matter of opinion: i disagree with your sources too.

The same with the purple flare: it's a limitation of the phone, nothing more. Its not a flaw, or a bug, or a warranty-reason.

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There never was any coating. The fix was the new antenna design for the CDMA iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. And having a finger in a common spot that caused a big signal drop off was the issue. It was a true and demonstrated problem.

Play austrich all you want, but frankly, the only reason people stopped talking about it is because Apple made it clear "Free bumpers" was all there was going to be out of it.

I'm not playing austrich. I am of opinion the spot was not that common and "a lot" was a very tiny figure. I am not denying the design had the limitation, i am saying it wasn't a fault.

 

[canadianpj]

When I can hold up a 4S and a 5 for the exact same shot and the 5 has the purple and the 4S doe snot, it is flawed. Perhaps this is by design, but what an awful design.

This whole problem has been trivialized by some when they say "Well, duh, just do not point it at the sun!" This is not the issue. The issue is ANY light source that is to close to the camera will cause this to a much, much greater degree than than with any previous iPhone.

 

[ZipZap]

When I can hold up a 4S and a 5 for the exact same shot and the 5 has the purple and the 4S doe snot, it is flawed. Perhaps this is by design, but what an awful design.

This whole problem has been trivialized by some when they say "Well, duh, just do not point it at the sun!" This is not the issue. The issue is ANY light source that is to close to the camera will cause this to a much, much greater degree than than with any previous iPhone.

Why does this still persist. All lenses flare. The reason it's purple on the iPhone 5 is due to the use of a sapphire crystal as the lens. Who cares if it's white or purple. It's going to happen.

It's not a bug or a defect. If you prefer white flare stay withe the ip4 or earlier phone.