my battery life has been beyond amazing. Night and day compared to my 4S. Stop using your phone so damn much.
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Apple Publicly Responds to Complaints of Purple Lens Flare on iPhone 5 Photos
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my battery life has been beyond amazing. Night and day compared to my 4S. Stop using your phone so damn much.
So let me get this straight - this is an issue common in all smartphones.
Then why is every tech website and news forum making it seem like it is an issue unique only to iphones? More specifically, the iphone5? To troll noobs like me?
...if you take a picture with the iPhone 5 in the dark without a flash, you will get a dark picture.
If you take a picture with the iPhone5 in the dark WITH a flash, you will get a dark picture.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19814187#19814187
But yes I agree, the lens flare is to be expected!
Based on the sample photos, the camera is fine. Both have similar amounts of purple flare. I think the only reason why the iPhone 5 looks more is because there is a black tree directly behind it and contrasts more with it.
It's a cell phone camera, not a $1000 lens. Yes lens, not dSLR, as this is an issue with the lens not camera body. Why do you think lens, especially higher end ones, come with lens hoods?
It's a cell phone camera, not a $1000 lens. Yes lens, not dSLR, as this is an issue with the lens not camera body. Why do you think lens, especially higher end ones, come with lens hoods?
Every camera regardless of price has its strengths and weaknesses. Those who are resourceful work these out to their advantage. Those who don't keep on taking technically crap shots.
i like how all of a sudden everyone's either a 30yr pro photographer or has a pro DSLR with $2k lens..
4 vs 5, the lens flare turned purple for no reason, i guess this is normal, and the 4 just had a worse camera that didn't produce the purple flare. And yet all your 50 grand cameras produced the purple flare.
Pro tip: throw your pro dslr cameras away and grab a iphone 4!!
sincerely,
-Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
4 vs 5, the lens flare turned purple for no reason, i guess this is normal, and the 4 just had a worse camera that didn't produce the purple flare. And yet all your 50 grand cameras produced the purple flare.
Pro tip: throw your pro dslr cameras away and grab a iphone 4!!
sincerely,
-Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
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It is definitely a flaw that should have been caught before manufacturing. There is no way to fix it at this point so they are just telling us to suck it up.
I guess I should complain to gizmodo that under complete darkness without flash, iPhone 5 can't take expected photos ... And it's darker than that in iPhone 4S.
Apple is making excuses for a design fault.
I went back to the iPhone 4S and have taken pictures with the sun in the upper right. On the iPhone 4S - no purple flares, on the iPhone 5 - purple flares.
As far as I'm concerned I'm not holding it wrong. I'm not taking pictures wrong. But the iPhone 5 is what's wrong.
I have also taken pictures with the sun in the upper third right corner with my Canon 60D without lens flares.
I went back to the iPhone 4S and have taken pictures with the sun in the upper right. On the iPhone 4S - no purple flares, on the iPhone 5 - purple flares.
As far as I'm concerned I'm not holding it wrong. I'm not taking pictures wrong. But the iPhone 5 is what's wrong.
I have also taken pictures with the sun in the upper third right corner with my Canon 60D without lens flares.
Lens flare itself isn't a problem, it is a fact of life and as a photographer you work with it. The purple flare some users are seeing is however particularly ugly. I've got a 4s and I've used flare in some photos for creative effect, but its always been white, if it had been purple the pics wouldn't have worked unless I edited in photoshop.
Frankly I can see why the purple is irritating and I wonder if there are manufacturing differences which are causing it to appear in some models and not others. I would expect Apple to be looking into this and trying to work out how to ensure the flare returns to a less intrusive and unnatural colour.
Amongst the "haters" there are too many Apple apologists on this site who are willing to excuse them anything. The vibrant purple is a problem, it isn't an inevitable expression of lens flare, it doesn't appear on all iPhone cameras and it should be remedied if they want to sell a better product.
Frankly I can see why the purple is irritating and I wonder if there are manufacturing differences which are causing it to appear in some models and not others. I would expect Apple to be looking into this and trying to work out how to ensure the flare returns to a less intrusive and unnatural colour.
Amongst the "haters" there are too many Apple apologists on this site who are willing to excuse them anything. The vibrant purple is a problem, it isn't an inevitable expression of lens flare, it doesn't appear on all iPhone cameras and it should be remedied if they want to sell a better product.
So basically... you're holding it the wrong way
Yes, you are holding it on the wrong way, or shall i say... pointing it on the wrong way. This is not the case of "customer is allways right" because many users are dumb enough to not know how to use a basic thing. I have far more expensive SLR camera with lents alone that cost twice the iphone 5, and if you point it to the bright lights you don't get very pleasent effect. I guess i have to go with Albert Einstein's quote "
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former"
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I'm glad someone has some common sense. It's funny, you sound like someone with real camera experience, but the "experts" on this forum always seem to know more.
People like to criticize apple for anything and everything.
Dumb question: is the iPhone 5 suppose to have a purple flare? I tested my iPhone 5's camera when I got it and the flare was normal color and didn't really affect the picture. My iPhone 5 is a week 38 or 39 I don't remember.
care to explain why iphone 4's camera and my cheap sony w300 don't produce that purple effect, while the iphone 5 and the expensive camera you claim to own suffer from that?
Maybe I have to quote "Albert Einstein, Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former"
Thank you! I can't believe the lengths people are going just to be able to bitch about something.
That's because some of us actually are pros with pro D-SLRS. I guess most of us might not be so bothered about this sort of flare as we would NEVER take such rubbish shots like the ones you're using as examples.
For all the "photographers" claiming that it is photography 101 never to take pictures into the sun, and how their pro cameras have the same problems - seriously! I've got plenty of great shots taken into the sun, it can be perfect for silhouettes, backlighting etc. Presumably you know that if you keep your lenses clean, stop down your aperture and shoot towards the sun it creates a very pleasing star shaped flare effect (which surprisingly none if my Canon lenses renders in purple!).