I clearly remember all the hype and hoopla that followed the iPhone 6 Plus release. How great the camera was supposed to be, the wonderful optical image stabilization, the sheer beauty of the photos. That was when the "Shot With iPhone" media blitz started.
Well I can tell you (since I have an iPhone 6 Plus) that it's a pretty crappy camera. Not horrible, but far far from being "good".
So what did I learn?
Whatever Apple and reviewers say about iPhone cameras (any of them) is BS hype.
Don't believe what they're trying to sell/tell you. iPhone cameras aren't that good and the Pro will be no exception to their long lineage of mediocrity.
Sure, they're a technological marvel, but the end result, the picture, ain't so hot. They're all point & shoot cameras & always will be. Nothing wrong with that, just don't expect spectacular results.
i agree. Every year they talk about how awesome the camera is, but rarely is it ever materially obvious the gains that are claimed. For all the talk about “computational photography”, there is simply nothing that can beat physics. I see all these camera comparisons and they’re all fairly surface level and entirely detached from true quality. The camera demos remind me a lot of the game demos: in relative terms, impressive—but in absolute ones? the cameras are on or slightly above the level of a good point and shoot or entry-level dslr.
I admit, this is all kind of discouraging and sanctimonious, but I think it’s important to have perspective with these things. it’s hard to have an absolute perspective on quality if your only camera experience is with iPhones, budget point and shoots, and perhaps a low-level kit-lens jpeg experience with some canon t5 or whatever.
i get it: most people just want to be able to pictures with the camera they have with them. And it is important to acknowledge the technical feat that the iPhone is. but it’s also important to understand the true extent of the road ahead, and it’s frustrating, how perennially this **** occurs: people try to squeeze and distort the distance between high quality cameras and the iPhone, when it’s incredibly obvious how paltry the cameras actually are to anyone who has perspective on photography. sure, a great cinematographer can take awesome video with an iPhone, but there’s a reason why most talented people opt for a mirrorless or a dedicated video camera when it comes down to actually enacting their art