iPhone XS Max Can Apple Bring Night Sight to the Iphone like Google did for Pixel?

[eyoungren]

My sister in law just picked up the Pixel 3 and I got to play around with it finally. I was super impressed with the camera but even more amazing was the Night Sight mode. I tried it against my iPhone XR and there was such a huge difference in low light photography I'm so jealous.
With all the money, staff and technology behind Apple you'd think they would be able to come up with their own version.
The Night Sight mode is seriously a game changer I was blown away at how well the pictures turned out.
[doublepost=1549220222][/doublepost]https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/3/18209098/pixel-3-night-sight-camera-moving-objects

Apple is not always the first to introduce a feature. But they are the company that perfects that feature.

Were you here on MacRumors when a whole lot of people were screaming and slamming Apple for not having NFC? Oh, it was bad. People were pissed.

Then came Apple Pay.

Suddenly…it was dead silent.

Facial recognition technology came out as a phone feature long before FaceID. Guess what? Apple made it work and now everyone is trying to copy FaceID.

Never assume Apple is behind the curve just because some other company launches a killer feature. Plenty of people who have done that have regretted it.

 

[Blaze4G]

Not to be rude, but the Pixel 3 is a newer phone than the current iPhones.

Why have you already gone out proclaiming Apple "can't" do something similar? For all you know they are going to leap frog Google with their own version later this year.

Seems awfully premature to make such a proclamation. Maybe if Apple still doesn't have it 3 phone cycles from now, ok, but to say they "can't" do something when they haven't even had an opportunity to offer a single iteration since Google did it is ridiculous. Doesn't seem like a lot of critical thinking went into this post.

Doesn't seem like a lot of critical thinking went into this post. The iPhone XS, XS Max was released in September 2019 and the Pixels in October 2019. Are you really going to say a month is a big difference in release date?

Not to mention the Pixel 3s were available before the iPhone XR. So technically the XR was released after the Pixel 3. Hence, being newer by a day.

 

[macfacts]

Looks like Samsung is working on their version of this.

 

[puma1552]

Doesn't seem like a lot of critical thinking went into this post. The iPhone XS, XS Max was released in September 2019 and the Pixels in October 2019. Are you really going to say a month is a big difference in release date?

Not to mention the Pixel 3s were available before the iPhone XR. So technically the XR was released after the Pixel 3. Hence, being newer by a day.

Of course a month doesn't matter, but just because Google did something first doesn't mean Apple can't do it, like OP seems to think and what this whole thread is premised upon, which is absurd.

Either way, Apple just hasn't released a phone since Google introduced this feature so just because Google does something first doesn't mean Apple can't do it too, and they haven't even had a phone cycle since. And it would be ludicrous to expect a feature like that to debut on the Xr.

Ultimately though, who really cares about capturing what's still a pretty garbage photo in the dark? Non-feature IMO.

 

[pika2000]

Looks like Samsung is working on their version of this.

If someone is lagging, it’s Samsung. Considering they are the only Android OEM making a huge profit, they are lagging significantly behind the likes of Huawei and Xiaomi, Huawei and Xiaomi already have night mode on their camera apps. Samsung on the other hand cannot even support 4K video on their exynos 7 series,

 

[Blaze4G]

Of course a month doesn't matter, but just because Google did something first doesn't mean Apple can't do it, like OP seems to think and what this whole thread is premised upon, which is absurd.

Either way, Apple just hasn't released a phone since Google introduced this feature so just because Google does something first doesn't mean Apple can't do it too, and they haven't even had a phone cycle since. And it would be ludicrous to expect a feature like that to debut on the Xr.

Ultimately though, who really cares about capturing what's still a pretty garbage photo in the dark? Non-feature IMO.

Non feature until Apple does it.

 

[pika2000]

My sister in law just picked up the Pixel 3 and I got to play around with it finally. I was super impressed with the camera but even more amazing was the Night Sight mode. I tried it against my iPhone XR and there was such a huge difference in low light photography I'm so jealous.
With all the money, staff and technology behind Apple you'd think they would be able to come up with their own version.
The Night Sight mode is seriously a game changer I was blown away at how well the pictures turned out.
[doublepost=1549220222][/doublepost]https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/3/18209098/pixel-3-night-sight-camera-moving-objects

I tried Huawei’s and yes, these modes are quite fascinating.
But let’s take into account the user experience. To do this, the user has to enter a special mode. I feel this is something that Apple might be debating. In iOS, there are already (imo) too many modes (square, panorama, portrait, in addition to videos and slow mo). Wouldn’t it be great if the algorithm can do something similar automagically without the user having to manually switch to night mode? I have a feeling Apple is banking on improvements in their Ax ISP (maybe in A13) to be able to do this without any user inteference. Who knows.

 

[fuchsdh]

I hope if Apple introduce a similar feature to Night Sight they tone it down. From a technological standpoint the tech is incredible, but under most circumstances I still want my night shots to look like... night. The film day-for-night effect it produces isn't that appealing. What is appealing is the idea of getting low-light shows with much less noise.

Given the positive response to the Pixel camera, I imagine Apple has similar features in its pipeline.

 

[jagolden]

The Pixel is not giving you the “true” photo scene. The exposure is simply automatically adjusted as the photo is taken.
That’s lousy and lazy “photography”.
Take your photo and simply adjust the exposure, you can even do a good job using the Photos app built in editing functions.
I’d much rather have a photo showing the scene as it actually was and adjust it to my liking, not someone else’s idea of what they “think” it should look like. I was there, they were not.

 

[watchthisspace]

The Pixel is not giving you the “true” photo scene. The exposure is simply automatically adjusted as the photo is taken.
That’s lousy and lazy “photography”.
Take your photo and simply adjust the exposure, you can even do a good job using the Photos app built in editing functions.
I’d much rather have a photo showing the scene as it actually was and adjust it to my liking, not someone else’s idea of what they “think” it should look like. I was there, they were not.

I want to be lousy and lazy and have my iPhone take a better low-light photo in one tap.

 

[Ebok]

Apple is not always the first to introduce a feature. But they are the company that perfects that feature.

Were you here on MacRumors when a whole lot of people were screaming and slamming Apple for not having NFC? Oh, it was bad. People were pissed.

Then came Apple Pay.

Suddenly…it was dead silent.

Facial recognition technology came out as a phone feature long before FaceID. Guess what? Apple made it work and now everyone is trying to copy FaceID.

Never assume Apple is behind the curve just because some other company launches a killer feature. Plenty of people who have done that have regretted it.

same thing can be said about the fingerprint reader.

a few androids had them... then they stopped

then apple did it

then everyone copied

rinse and repeat.

 

[jeremiah256]

Apple is not always the first to introduce a feature. But they are the company that perfects that feature.

Were you here on MacRumors when a whole lot of people were screaming and slamming Apple for not having NFC? Oh, it was bad. People were pissed.

Then came Apple Pay.

Suddenly…it was dead silent.

Facial recognition technology came out as a phone feature long before FaceID. Guess what? Apple made it work and now everyone is trying to copy FaceID.

Never assume Apple is behind the curve just because some other company launches a killer feature. Plenty of people who have done that have regretted it.

Gotta say, I'm still kind of salty about not having full control over NFC, I've just given up and accepted that with Apple, it's their way or the highway when it comes to certain customizations.

 

[naturalguy]

The pixel does take beautiful low light photos, the only drawback is it's painfully slow. It takes a lot longer to take a night shot photo then normal. You have to hold the shot while you wait for a circle to complete on the screen.

 

[balaplus]

The Pixel is not giving you the “true” photo scene. The exposure is simply automatically adjusted as the photo is taken.
That’s lousy and lazy “photography”.
Take your photo and simply adjust the exposure, you can even do a good job using the Photos app built in editing functions.
I’d much rather have a photo showing the scene as it actually was and adjust it to my liking, not someone else’s idea of what they “think” it should look like. I was there, they were not.

Since you are convinced that Apple has somehow not implemented a 'night-mode' to stay true to the real scene, be prepared to stop using the iphone camera when they eventually add this feature!

 

[Coffee_Time]

I don't understand why in iphone subforum, allways, but allways, peoples, instead answering to the subject, preffer to be Apple's advocate. For free!

The most important part for a phone is the display, because with the display you interact 99.9% of the time. Also the most important part of the human senses are the eyes. So the screen is the first to look for. Then other parts like os, camera, soc etc.