Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
iPhone 14 Pro Case Comparison Shows Wider Diameter of Rear Camera Lenses
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
It’ll be interesting to see what model finally stops increasing the size of the cameras and bump because there is surely a limit to how big they can get. It can’t go on getting bigger forever.
Can they think of a different way to arrange the camera hardware already?!
Just continuing to grow this square in the corner doesn’t seem like a sustainable design direction.
Just continuing to grow this square in the corner doesn’t seem like a sustainable design direction.
Unfortunately without major cropping from larger sensors it will be hard to align what each camera is doing with eachother for a seamless “zoom” experience, the way Apple currently does in the Camera app, if they are arranged a different way. The way they are currently aligned in a triangular formation minimizes parallax error.
TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
Suspended
The camera stands out in iPhone 13 Peo/Pro Max already. It’s only going to get better.
"What are you talking about? The phones aren't too heavy... I read in bed and never drop my 14ProMax on my face, ever."
Attachments
If someone is willing to shell out for a new iPhone, buying a new case shouldn’t be a big deal.
There’s nothing “conspiracy” related here. Just a company maximizing their profit. Do you think they couldn’t have an always-on display ready last year? Of course they could, but since they were already going with promotion, they left that one for the next iteration.
Wish Apple would make a camera module that retracts into and out of the phone.
Haven’t you seen the YT videos of the dummie models that case makers get? Lew from Unbox Therapy has a whole set that he measured with calipers.
He showed the cheap dummies vs the extremely real looking high quality one that he was able to get. He didn’t explain how he got the dummies, but he sells his own brand of carbon fiber cases called Later Case so I guess that’s how he gets stuff like the high quality one that’s supposed to be accurate.
He’s just one example.
I'm sorry, you don't think Apple has an incentive to do this? Did you forget they also sell cases? Are you forgetting they're a for-profit company and not a charity?
The way that some people see Apple on here is bewildering sometimes. Not saying it's not a conspiracy, but it's quite reasonable to think it is!
I'm using an iPhone 11 case, which has a square bump cutout, on my XR which doesn't even have a camera bump.
iPhones have traditionally been redesigned every two years so you could always use the same case on the regular and S versions of each iPhone style. IRC I used the same Mophie battery case on my 3G and 3GS iPhones.
Besides, my XR's case is dirty and scratched; I would be getting a new case for my 14 Pro even if the old one fit.
Last edited:
Is it me or has Apple gone too far in the other direction? They used to obsess with making things thin at expense to function, but now they're making things bigger without regard to the fact that some people might not want so much bulk and weight in their pocket.
They really should try to strike a balance and not keep making the phones bulkier every year.
They really should try to strike a balance and not keep making the phones bulkier every year.
All high-end smartphones have been powerful enough for a number of years so camera improvements are what sell phone upgrades. Good cameras require larger sensors and lenses; you cant escape physics.
Last edited:
No way Apple times "camera improvements camera improvements to make sure that people buy new cases." Making ongoing product improvements and getting them into shipping products is a huge challenge, and Apple's intended business model is to make great products, not "to make sure that people buy new cases."
Apple's focus will be 100% on optimizing improvements to its core enterprise-critical product. Not even 1% of concern will have been given to cases, most of which are sold by third party entities anyway.
Last edited:
Very good point. Wider aperture will allow shallower depth of field (DOF). Not only will that impact focusing as you observe, but the new shallower DOF will facilitate users seeing/learning the nuances of focus and DOF. IMO over time it will be quite a big deal.
Last edited:
I see no real limit to how big they can get. Apple already differentiates phone models by allowing folks to buy lesser phones with lesser cameras. As long as enough folks like me are willing to accept phone size increases and pay huge prices for annually increasing in-pocket camera competence in the top iPhone models Apple will keep evolving the top of the iPhone line in that direction.
Not to mention less noise and therefore less aggressive noise reduction.
I agree. I think we are approaching the limit. Battery technology is not improving rapidly enough to allow for much more expansion in battery capacity, and the cameras can only get so big until the phone is more camera than phone. I think this is an underrated appeal of the non-Pro models, that they will be thinner and lighter while still having excellent cameras.