I expect a potential iPhone SE2/iPhone 9 product (rumored for end of March) will have an A13 chip...but do I understand correctly that Night Mode requires the wide-angle lens to collect more light? Assuming the new budget phone has just one camera lens, then, I guess I should expect it to NOT support Night Mode.
No, the Night Mode doesn’t require the second camera, in fact you can’t shoot in night mode on that new Ultra Wide lens. Only the primary camera supports it. You are right about the part that it is being enabled by the A13 though.
In my view the fact that the results of this competition are being publicized shortly before the SE2/9 launch is a further confirmation that the said phone will support the Night Mode. It’s a marketing tool.
They’re totally hyping up this feature now so during the keynote they’ll come up and say “look at these stunning pics! our customers love the night mode. now available for $399”. Basically what Google did with Pixel 3a last year when the Night Sight was the killer feature of that budget phone (while the current Apple’s flagship XS at $999 had none).
Lightroom and photoshop to the max dude. At least one hour per photo to create works of art like that.Man, insane photos. I wonder how much touch up there was in post for these. These couldn't have just been straight out of camera?
Compare them side by side. Not at all the same picture. Start with the patterns in the water.According to Rustam Shagimordanov's Instagram page, his selected photo was taken on Sony A7III + Sigma 24mm f/1.4
NOT on iPhone 11. Not sure how this works.
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You’re not impressed? That says more about you than the photos. They’re spectacular. Also, Apple wanted to highlight Night Mode, so of course it focused on iPhone 11. You think they should have contests to promote old phones?I’m not impressed. This contest Apple seemed to focus only on iPhone 11 models entries although they did not state so.
my unedited entries from iPhone 8
Do you speak Russian? I have no idea what that says. But my guess is that Apple has checked the metadata and done their due diligence regarding iPhone authenticity for this contest. Too much at stake not to.According to Rustam Shagimordanov's Instagram page, his selected photo was taken on Sony A7III + Sigma 24mm f/1.4
NOT on iPhone 11. Not sure how this works.
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That was my first thought.Compare them side by side. Not at all the same picture. Start with the patterns in the water.
Perhaps taken in the same place with both devices. Possibly at different times.
Yeah, I've done back comparison between my X and the wife's 11 Pro, it's not in the same ballpark.
Oh man, I would've loved to have had the Pro 11 for this Halloween (we go all out, made a huge, motor driven ghost this year over the main graveyard). My photos were __ok__.
The advertisement on television where they show several examples of Night Mode, on the very bottom where they have notices mention additional hardware and software were used in production of the pictures. Does this imply non-standard lenses and photoshop were used?
Seriously? You are telling me you can't see substantial differences between these two pictures? Not only are they not the same they weren't taken from the same location - it's not just a matter of tweaking colors or cropping, the geometry of the two images are considerably different. Take a look at the pair of arrows I've added to each image below - one pointing down to a corner of the house in the right front, the other pointing up to the corner of the mountain. Notice the vast difference between the spacing of the arrows? This is without even getting into the wave patterns in the foreground. Entirely different pictures. Taken of the same scene, from two nearby spots, but not the same spot.That was my first thought.
But both images have no significant difference. I am very positive that Apple has scanned for device identity...I’d more like to see a unique photo taken on iPhone 11 vs an identical copy where all same tools and techniques were applied.