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Apple Publicly Responds to Complaints of Purple Lens Flare on iPhone 5 Photos
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iphone 5,the most problematic phone apple produced so far and i would find a way to excuse her if they were making many phones like others but they make 1 every 2 years(the s doesn't count as new) what did we have so far?
Hardware
Colour cheeping,comes with scratches out of the factory,peels.
Apple fans find it normal...
Camera is taking purple colour photos when light is on the sides of the lense.
Apple fans find it normal...
Battery life the same as in iphone 4s(wich was crappy)
Apple fans find it ok.
iOS 6
Wifi sometimes doesn't connect and if it does its with slower speeds.
Apple removes google maps and put their own,good move only they are on beta stage and that removes functionality...
Apple fans find it normal.
And all that with apple keeping the same price on the phone asking 1000$ +(thats the price in europe when you change the euro to $) the most expensive phone in the world with the most problems in the world at premium price ofc because it is apple...
Thats what happens when you stop care for the costumer and you just look how to fil your pockets with more money.
Hardware
Colour cheeping,comes with scratches out of the factory,peels.
Apple fans find it normal...
Camera is taking purple colour photos when light is on the sides of the lense.
Apple fans find it normal...
Battery life the same as in iphone 4s(wich was crappy)
Apple fans find it ok.
iOS 6
Wifi sometimes doesn't connect and if it does its with slower speeds.
Apple removes google maps and put their own,good move only they are on beta stage and that removes functionality...
Apple fans find it normal.
And all that with apple keeping the same price on the phone asking 1000$ +(thats the price in europe when you change the euro to $) the most expensive phone in the world with the most problems in the world at premium price ofc because it is apple...
Thats what happens when you stop care for the costumer and you just look how to fil your pockets with more money.
Definitely a silly, run around, response. The fact is, the iPhone is infamous for the terrible purple blotches you get on any photo which has a bright light source in it. I know it's like the laws of physics or whatever but Apple simply saying "take a different picture" is just a run around.
Some people is just uneducated.
"Antennagate all over again"? "I've taken 20,000+ photos on my 4S, never ONCE had this problem"? Look at the photo of this story, will ya?
"being shown, all over the web, in side by side comparisons with an excellent picture from the 4S" Excellent picture? Except the photographer didn't shoot them at the exact same angle. Oops.
And "all over the web"? No, I have to take it back. It's not just some people. It's "all over the web" that are uneducated.
"Antennagate all over again"? "I've taken 20,000+ photos on my 4S, never ONCE had this problem"? Look at the photo of this story, will ya?
"being shown, all over the web, in side by side comparisons with an excellent picture from the 4S" Excellent picture? Except the photographer didn't shoot them at the exact same angle. Oops.
And "all over the web"? No, I have to take it back. It's not just some people. It's "all over the web" that are uneducated.
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So, weather this is true or not. its expected...
Its Apple..... of course when they "change" something, its gonna go wrong somewhere else.
But if it is a issue.... Fix it !.. No exceptions....
Maybe Apple should have thought before switching to sapphire.
So, weather this is true or not. its expected...
Its Apple..... of course when they "change" something, its gonna go wrong somewhere else.
But if it is a issue.... Fix it !.. No exceptions....
Maybe Apple should have thought before switching to sapphire.
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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!!!
Flashback,
"antennagate" : "you are holding it wrong " and "every phone has this deathgrip"
"Purple flare gate" : "you are pointing it wrong" and "every phone has flare"
Both times its BS because they simply wont admit an error and both times they try to dilute the issue with other issues.
"antennagate" : "you are holding it wrong " and "every phone has this deathgrip"
"Purple flare gate" : "you are pointing it wrong" and "every phone has flare"
Both times its BS because they simply wont admit an error and both times they try to dilute the issue with other issues.
Bullshiet. I had the iPhone 4 and now the 4S and they both never EVER had this problem, and btw most of my pictures are in direct sun or towards some sort of lights from concerts etc. In fact, just last week I made several photos at a friend's house and the lights were fancing the camera exactly like in a "purple haze" scenario. None were affected. I will try to find them and upload for proof.
I am a professional photographer, and from experience I can tell you that flare is something that happens with every camera and lens if you point it at the freaking sun. In many camera manuals, it's actually said not to even take photos with the sun in the frame, as it can damage the CCD/CMOS sensor over time.
The color variation from one model to another is possibly due to a different coating on the lenses, a different IR/Low Pass filter, and a different lens arrangement, and many other things. While these are probably there to eventually produce better images, they might produce worse flare in certain cases, like when you point it at the sun. It's normal!
I have a Nikkor 18-70mm lens that produces almost no flare, and a 50mm prime lens that produces loads of it. They're both great lenses, and the flare can be almost completely avoided by using a hood or by simply not taking pictures with the sun near the frame. I would not say the 50mm is a worse lens than the zoom, even though it produces more flare. This has nothing to do with how good the lens is.
Some very old lenses have no coating whatsoever, and they won't produce much flare, especially not colorful flare. That doesn't mean they're better than today's ultra-coated lenses!
The iPhone 5 produces less flare than some very good SLR lenses I've seen. It doesn't mean anything.
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Wow, more and more retards keep buying Apple stuff. I wish they didn't.
If you have no idea about photography then S**U seriously!
It looks like Macrumors turned into a playground for 10 year olds that got their iPhone from daddy.
If you have no idea about photography then S**U seriously!
It looks like Macrumors turned into a playground for 10 year olds that got their iPhone from daddy.
You should try an android phone and then complain about battery life....
my iPhone 5 outlasts any of my current or previous android handsets by a wide margin, and I have auto-sync turned off, no live wallpapers and limited to only clock, weather & music widgets and yet the Androids will gobble up battery far faster...
Im getting a full day with my iPhone, snapping photos (and have not seen this purple lens flare issue EVER) uploading to facebook, twitter, emails set to push and listening to music via bluetooth headset, alongside texting and calls, despite which i still regularly have 40-60% battery left after 15-16 hours.
They will fix it, if there is a problem.
The competion made the antenagate, and now the competition makes purplegate.What? You think Samaung dont have a squad team just to troll the internet about possible problems with other devices. Objective achived, its all over the internet, Apple just lost a few thousonds of iphone sales the troll team earned their salary.
The competion made the antenagate, and now the competition makes purplegate.What? You think Samaung dont have a squad team just to troll the internet about possible problems with other devices. Objective achived, its all over the internet, Apple just lost a few thousonds of iphone sales the troll team earned their salary.
Did you notice that it's not the exact same angle, and the len is not even the same focal length? Do you even know how this aberration happen? Pro tip: it happens only when the light hit at the right angle.
To me it looks like the photographer trying to exaggerate iPhone 5 effect.
Here photo from iPhone 4
(now it's like a "who has a bigger dick" contest.) :sigh:
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Different lenses. Chromatic aberration and/or lens flare is a function of the lens not the camera. Everyone saying their i4 or their Canon 60d or their sony w300 don't show chromatic aberration are exactly right but not for the reasons they think: It's the lenses focusing light on the image sensor that do or don't. The i5 lens is a different lens than that on the i4.
its a sapphire lens. its normal if you get purple color.
sapphire is more robust and scratch resistant than regular crystal lens. most of my watches has sapphire and some of them has even heavy coating which you can see the purple when gets illuminated by sun.
90% of the people here are so immature.
sapphire is more robust and scratch resistant than regular crystal lens. most of my watches has sapphire and some of them has even heavy coating which you can see the purple when gets illuminated by sun.
90% of the people here are so immature.
I doubt Apple fans are any more ignorant than the fans of any phone maker. The difference it largely that, when this sort of thing happens with an Apple product, you get a load of publicity.
"Users raise concerns over lackluster fidelity of iPhone microphone"
In another blow for Apple's problem-ridden iPhone 5, reports are now coming in from worried and disappointed users suggesting that the iPhone's built-in microphone may be of subpar quality.
Mike Rofoni, 33, of Columbus, OH was among the first to report the possible defect, after attending a Metallica concert which he recorded in its entirety on his iPhone 5. Says Mike, "I was in a perfect spot some three feet away from the speaker stack and recorded the entire gig on the iPhone 5 in my pocket. But when I came home and opened the audio file, I was shocked to find that the sound was distorted and muffled. Then I looked at the waveform and realized there was no dynamic range at all."
Other users have chimed in, pointing to the microphone's apparent incapability for near-field recording of grenade impacts, low-flying passenger jets and Harley-Davidson engines with the muffler removed.
"Apple claims to know tech and be cutting edge and all, but it's simply not true. I have a 50 year old Neumann mic that sounds way better than the iPhone 5 mic. I see no option but to go class-action. Apple quality ain't what it used to be. Steve Jobs would never have allowed this", Mike concludes, with tears in his eyes.
In another blow for Apple's problem-ridden iPhone 5, reports are now coming in from worried and disappointed users suggesting that the iPhone's built-in microphone may be of subpar quality.
Mike Rofoni, 33, of Columbus, OH was among the first to report the possible defect, after attending a Metallica concert which he recorded in its entirety on his iPhone 5. Says Mike, "I was in a perfect spot some three feet away from the speaker stack and recorded the entire gig on the iPhone 5 in my pocket. But when I came home and opened the audio file, I was shocked to find that the sound was distorted and muffled. Then I looked at the waveform and realized there was no dynamic range at all."
Other users have chimed in, pointing to the microphone's apparent incapability for near-field recording of grenade impacts, low-flying passenger jets and Harley-Davidson engines with the muffler removed.
"Apple claims to know tech and be cutting edge and all, but it's simply not true. I have a 50 year old Neumann mic that sounds way better than the iPhone 5 mic. I see no option but to go class-action. Apple quality ain't what it used to be. Steve Jobs would never have allowed this", Mike concludes, with tears in his eyes.
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Oh .. that's funny.. I really liked the lens flare since it looks like a legitimate lens flare . . . vs. once upon a time where the lens just did funny circle things.
It's the front element flaring... we've got a piece of sapphire on there. I own plenty of L-Lenses that are designed to avoid flaring, for the most part, until you hit the "too far" point, and it will flare in its own unique way, depending on the # of elements, coatings, type of lens, etc. Other lenses flare different colors or patterns, with about a million variables.
I really did think this one was a "feature" and really demonstrated that the lens is more "real"...
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And the publicity comes from the reality of the matter, that Apple is a very large company making products that are incredible, and you're converting people that are expecting it to be 100% perfect, but sadly, this world has very few (if any) things that are perfect in it.
It's the front element flaring... we've got a piece of sapphire on there. I own plenty of L-Lenses that are designed to avoid flaring, for the most part, until you hit the "too far" point, and it will flare in its own unique way, depending on the # of elements, coatings, type of lens, etc. Other lenses flare different colors or patterns, with about a million variables.
I really did think this one was a "feature" and really demonstrated that the lens is more "real"...
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And the publicity comes from the reality of the matter, that Apple is a very large company making products that are incredible, and you're converting people that are expecting it to be 100% perfect, but sadly, this world has very few (if any) things that are perfect in it.