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iPhone 13 Expected to Feature Upgraded Ultra Wide Camera With Significantly Improved Low-Light Performance
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Just give me 120hz refresh rate screen, and I can accept anything else, including no charging port!
I would have though that using a lens that’s higher quality but wrong for the shot isn’t going to give you the best picture.
With the iPhone X, there were times that I found the telephoto lens to provide benefit when I was zooming between 5x-10x. The quality loss on the wide lens + digital zoom is far worse than the shortcomings of the telephoto lens + less digital zoom to get from 2x to 5x or 10x.
I agree with most others here that the one key feature that I miss most in the 12 mini is the telephoto lens. I used the ultrawide once to try it out, but like others said, it proved to be as much of a gimmick as I expected it to be. And in practical cases, I continue to run into far more situations where I'd like to be able to zoom more, but can't, than any where I can't just step back a little bit to get a wider shot.
The telephoto lens just offers far more utility than an ultrawide, and its omission on the 12/12 mini was the biggest failing of those models IMO. Apple should either leave the ultrawide for the Pro models and put the telephoto on all models, or introduce a "Pro mini" that includes the telephoto lens.
actually I would like to be able to choose. When an iPhone has a telephoto lens then portrait mode will zoom in. I would like to be able to take portrait mode with the main lens as well
I hope the address the flares, ghost images, green orbs, and reflections that make all this technology essential useless when shooting a cityscape, Christmas tree or anything with the moon, sun or any light source in it.
This.Should we just never post an iPhone camera rumor again?
Improvements may be predictable but the details are important to some of us. That's what this site is for, after all. If a reader isn't interested in a particular detail, why not skip the article?
A solid wide is all you need, if there's any reason to need an ultra wide, it means they should fix the wide instead.
A zoom on the other hand changes how practical the camera is.
Modifying it so you have a choice between good landscapes or food pictures and not much else, is stupid.
The standard portrait lens is 20-80 or 20-120 and for years, the standard kit lens was a 50mm. Work around the crops and deliver those equivalents.
Need a wider shot? Move back. You can only go so wide from the magic of a lens before distortion anyway. The goal should be to be able to photograph a small room in full, and after that, there are very few practical needs. They can't keep designing phones for the marketing sample photos... plus the last round looked like over processed crap anyway.
A zoom on the other hand changes how practical the camera is.
Modifying it so you have a choice between good landscapes or food pictures and not much else, is stupid.
The standard portrait lens is 20-80 or 20-120 and for years, the standard kit lens was a 50mm. Work around the crops and deliver those equivalents.
Need a wider shot? Move back. You can only go so wide from the magic of a lens before distortion anyway. The goal should be to be able to photograph a small room in full, and after that, there are very few practical needs. They can't keep designing phones for the marketing sample photos... plus the last round looked like over processed crap anyway.
Does an improved camera fix the notch? Oh, then who cares?
Swap out the ultra-wide with a tele in the iPhone Mini and they'll have my money. Would so much rather have a tele than an ultra-wide.
I'm not sure why Apple thinks everybody who owns a phone is an amateur photographer.
I couldn't care less about the camera. I'm glad it has one. But I was fine with one. I'll be sticking to the SE until if and when we get a new phone with touchID.
I couldn't care less about the camera. I'm glad it has one. But I was fine with one. I'll be sticking to the SE until if and when we get a new phone with touchID.