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iPhone 12 Pro Max iPhone 12 Pro Max Ultrawide Camera Photos Fuzzy/Low Resolution/"Processed" looking?

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Pictures taken with the ultra wide, compared to the wide, are really low resolution/fuzzy, and not so much unsharp as really processed-looking. Also, photo file size is about 1/4 of the same scene taken with the wide--like I'm not actually getting my 12 MP from the ultra wide camera...

I'm not talking pictures taken in low light, but, in noonday sun conditions on a tripod.

Is this an issue with my iPhone or with all of them, and anything I can do to fix this?

Thanks.
 
True 100% agree ..ultra wide is trash
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UW lens has a super tiny sensor. Lens quality is also lower than the main sensor.

UW lens is ONLY for use in excellent lighting. It is mainly used for landscape pictures or street photography during daylight/sunny.

The addition of Deep Fusion to UW is appreciated...but you cannot escape tiny sensor and not-greatest lens quality.

For less than ideal lighting, you should ONLY use the main sensor.
 
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Madtiger27 said:
UW lens has a super tiny sensor. Lens quality is also lower than the main sensor.

UW lens is ONLY for use in excellent lighting. It is mainly used for landscape pictures or street photography during daylight/sunny.

The addition of Deep Fusion to UW is appreciated...but you cannot escape tiny sensor and not-greatest lens quality.

For less than ideal lighting, you should ONLY use the main sensor.
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But one of the improvements for iPhone 12 is that night mode works with all lenses, also the ultrawide. So, shouldn’t it be possible to take pictures with the ultra wide in low light?
 
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But one of the improvements for iPhone 12 is that night mode works with all lenses, also the ultrawide. So, shouldn’t it be possible to take pictures with the ultra wide in low light?
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It is but not as good as the main camera in the finish. UW has more of computational exposure artifacts in night mode compared to the main camera

One thing that I'd like to have though is the addition of Night Mode panorama so I can take a pic like the one I took back then:

 
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cbautis2 said:
It is but not as good as the main camera in the finish. UW has more of computational exposure artifacts in night mode compared to the main camera

One thing that I'd like to have though is the addition of Night Mode panorama so I can take a pic like the one I took back then:

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Long exposure sweep panorama night mode? Does anybody else in the industry have that already?
 
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cbautis2 said:
It is but not as good as the main camera in the finish. UW has more of computational exposure artifacts in night mode compared to the main camera

One thing that I'd like to have though is the addition of Night Mode panorama so I can take a pic like the one I took back then:

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How did you do that?!? Every time I try to take a picture of a skyline, even on my SLR, they turn out like crap with over exposed lights and blurriness.
 
contacos said:
How did you do that?!? Every time I try to take a picture of a skyline, even on my SLR, they turn out like crap with over exposed lights and blurriness.
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You probably over exposed to the right too much. ETTR might be awesome for astrophotography for eye popping stars but for night street buildings, it’s better to be in the middle to reveal the shadows under the lights. The dark shadows can be recovered if your ISO is at ISO100. For astrophotography, I expose to +1 to +1 2/3 of evaluative metering.
 
The super wide angle lens is definitely the weakest of the three, I posted a picture in the 12PM image thread with a similar comment... Plenty of corner smearing etc., but what bothers me most is the inconsistency in daily use (which is a problem I have with Apple‘s current implementation of computational photography in general), I do have images with fairly complex patterns in the corners and the results turn out ok while in other cases (mainly with trees and branches) the corner performance is abysmal. I believe it has something to do with Apple‘s lens correction algorithms...
 
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It's a bug. Go into camera settings and turn off Scene Detection. It fixes this issue. Apple is aware of the problem.
 
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