iPhone 15 Camera: Apple Explains UI Design Decisions, Limitations, and Hidden Features

[asbeve]

So Apple uses the same main camera as the iPhone 14 Pro and then uses software to hold iPhone 14 Pro users on 12 megapixel and enables a 24 megapixel mode on the iPhone 15 pro, hoping they would update? Meanwhile they want less waste for 2030 and their greenwashing propaganda?

The Neural Engine in A17 Pro is twice as fast as in A16, and probably hard at work for the photonic engine. Enabling the same feature in iPhone 14 Pro would probably result in unresponsive experience. Apple doesn’t like that.

 

[DeepIn2U]

Not according to apple's own litreture I've just come across - incoming disappointment

Record ProRes videos with your iPhone camera

Record ProRes videos with the iPhone camera to improve recording quality and enhance editing capabilities.

support.apple.com

Insanity, dedicated ProRes encoders/decoders on SoC and a 1TB storage option and no ability to record 4K60 unless using external storage - absolute nonsense from Apple there with yet another artificial imposed limitation, no doubt held back for the 16 Pro next year - tedious - "iPhone 16 Pro now features a 2TB capacity to record 4K60 directly to your iPhone without the need for external storage" - there's your marketing roadmap - suppose it's obvious

Even the argument of internal space not being sufficient ProRes 4K60 should come in at around 12GB/Minute so a 1TB should be able to record over an hour's worth of footage which is still plenty

I best make sure I carry a spare SSD out with me every time in the off-chance I may want to record in 4K60 ProRes, convenient!

Gotta admit this guy is spot on with the marketing intent at Apple here. We really shouldn’t allow Apple to do things like this. The iPhone 15 Pro really should not start at 128GB option. Period!

Starting at 256GB would eliminate this annoying restriction along with the lack of a Pro function in perception to the client base.

 

[Unggoy Murderer]

Is there RAW anymore? Kinda putting this question out there so anyone that’s already done the searching I’m doing can say. I found this from the makers of Halide that made me think that one may not be able to usefully go beyond ProRAW (which is still processed to some degree).

“Ever since our look at iPhone 8, we noted a ‘watercolor effect’ that rears its head in images when noise reduction is being applied. At times, this was mitigated by shooting in RAW (not ProRAW), but as the photography pipeline on iPhones has gotten increasingly complex, pure RAW images have deteriorated.”

If you enable proRAW in the camera settings, it'll give you some more information.

As far as I can tell, proRAW images are pretty much what the sensor sees, I don't believe there's any post-processing applied. That's my experience with the 14 Pro Max anyway.

 

[CouldBeWorse]

proRAW images are pretty much what the sensor sees, I don't believe there's any post-processing applied.

That isn’t true. ProRAW images are still HDR images and are heavily processed.

Understanding Apple ProRAW

My name is Ben Sandofsky, and I'm the co-founder and developer of Lux Optics. We make Halide, the most popular RAW camera for iPhone, so when Apple

petapixel.com

 

[Unggoy Murderer]

That isn’t true. ProRAW images are still HDR images and are heavily processed.

Understanding Apple ProRAW

My name is Ben Sandofsky, and I'm the co-founder and developer of Lux Optics. We make Halide, the most popular RAW camera for iPhone, so when Apple

petapixel.com

The difference between a raw image and a standard one is huge on the 14 Pro Max. When you take a picture in standard mode, you can see the processed version "pop" in after a second or two after being taken, with visible changes like sharpness, white balance, etc. I don't see the same thing happen on the raw mode.

I suspect the article referenced is in need of an update.

 

[CouldBeWorse]

The difference between a raw image and a standard one is huge on the 14 Pro Max. When you take a picture in standard mode, you can see the processed version "pop" in after a second or two after being taken, with visible changes like sharpness, white balance, etc. I don't see the same thing happen on the raw mode.

I suspect the article referenced is in need of an update.

I don’t disagree that there is a difference. My point was that it isn’t a raw photo the way we think of raw photos coming out of a dslr. They are very much processed.

 

[dstow]

iPhone 15 Pro Max 256GB - 4K60 ProRes feature locked to external storage only