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iPhone 6s Camera Worse than 5s? Pics

Run4Life said:
Gonna jump in here, having upgraded from the 5S straight to the 6S. I notice better low light ability in my 6S. Here is a pic I took a few days ago that just happens to apply here I think. I think the camera did an excellent job capturing and metering this. Noise is minimal and the deer seem mostly clear. And this was a quick pull up and snap pic through a windshield.

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Noise everywhere...
 
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Run4Life said:
Compared to the 5s nah
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in the end it comes down to this: do you want a more grainy natural looking picture (5s) or an articfical looking, overpainted like picture (6, 6s)? personal preference i guess.
 
x34 said:
in the end it comes down to this: do you want a more grainy natural looking picture (5s) or an articfical looking, overpainted like picture (6, 6s)? personal preference i guess.
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True, both cameras are fine though. Any pictures you take you can quickly edit them before you post. The photo shop app on this phone runs much faster than the 5S.
 
Rocko9999 said:
None. None of thes camera apps can bypass the phones processing which is the issue.
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Apple claims Photos.app can replace Aperture. In one important way, it can-- it can process raw images. Seems like it would be only fair for Apple to provide the necessary data before preprocessing.
 
My only issue is colour reproduction. My old iPhone 4 was usueless with blue/pink/purple.

However the 6S Plus seems to have an issue with Red. The below picture is a flower that is a vibrant yet dark red. The phone does not capture it right.

For me this image is an orange flower not red.
 

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Nevaborn said:
My only issue is colour reproduction. My old iPhone 4 was usueless with blue/pink/purple.

However the 6S Plus seems to have an issue with Red. The below picture is a flower that is a vibrant yet dark red. The phone does not capture it right.

For me this image is an orange flower not red.
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for you, eh? you're watching it wrong, buddy..
it should be dark red-------like an APPLE.
 
Megapixel count has been increased to facilitate larger prints from the phone. With most photographs on the internet being taken with iPhones, more people are printing for frames at home, grandparents, etc. That is why Apple boosted the megapixel count. It wasn't about matching any other company's count (although I'm sure it was a small factor).

With regard to low light performance, I shoot with two DSLRs. My D800 (32 megapixel) has a native ISO of up to 6400. Above that, it defers to the firmware. That is exactly what the iPhone is doing. It's a point and shoot. It has no mechanical zoom and the aperture is software based also. Nothing beats an SLR. Period. And your iPhone isn't going to match it. Yeah, it's clear, crisp and all that, but it's not going to compete. Enjoy your point and shoot or go spend twice the value of your 6s+ and buy a DSLR.
 
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for you, eh? you're watching it wrong, buddy..
it should be dark red-------like an APPLE.
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It was just a bit disappointing as I have some genuinely nice pictures and just wish I could get the colour right.
 
Nevaborn said:
My only issue is colour reproduction. My old iPhone 4 was usueless with blue/pink/purple.

However the 6S Plus seems to have an issue with Red. The below picture is a flower that is a vibrant yet dark red. The phone does not capture it right.

For me this image is an orange flower not red.
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I can't say what the flower originally looks like, but I'm certainly not seeing an
Orange flower here. I'll have to take some pics of red things and see how they turn out. See how different the photo looks from reality.
 
Interestingly I updated to 9.02 last night and took another picture this morning. It was naturally over-exposed sonI dialled it down in app and this is far more like what my eyes were seeing.

100% the update held something for this. The second image is one I took on 9.01 and spent a fair bit of time on the phone editing to get the colour close but it wrecked the detail. So happy about this.
 

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Nevaborn said:
Interestingly I updated to 9.02 last night and took another picture this morning. It was naturally over-exposed sonI dialled it down in app and this is far more like what my eyes were seeing.

100% the update held something for this. The second image is one I took on 9.01 and spent a fair bit of time on the phone editing to get the colour close but it wrecked the detail. So happy about this.
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good.. this means they at least think about improving as much as they can with the camera.
a half amount less NR would be even better ;)
 
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Nevaborn said:
My only issue is colour reproduction. My old iPhone 4 was usueless with blue/pink/purple.

However the 6S Plus seems to have an issue with Red. The below picture is a flower that is a vibrant yet dark red. The phone does not capture it right.

For me this image is an orange flower not red.
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Jesus that looks awful, I've seen $99 phones take better pictures than that. The point of a phone camera is that you can just point and shoot without worrying about editing it or manually adjusting to get the best picture. If I wanted to do that, I'd just take my SLR. Increasing the pixel count without increasing the sensor size means that the 6S takes worst pictures than the 5S, who, in my opinion produced excellent results most of the time. It was reliable and you could count on it, sadly that seems to be gone with the 6S, where you are just hoping it'll work.
 
Picka said:
Jesus that looks awful, I've seen $99 phones take better pictures than that. The point of a phone camera is that you can just point and shoot without worrying about editing it or manually adjusting to get the best picture. If I wanted to do that, I'd just take my SLR. Increasing the pixel count without increasing the sensor size means that the 6S takes worst pictures than the 5S, who, in my opinion produced excellent results most of the time. It was reliable and you could count on it, sadly that seems to be gone with the 6S, where you are just hoping it'll work.
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It isn't quite so doom and gloom, it does have an issue over exposing, blowing the picture out. But it does seem now correctable after you get the photo.

This to me is something that can be solved quite easily with a software update. Interested to see what iOS 9.1 looks like.
 
All of this auto noise reduction can still be controlled at the firmware level. All we need to do is start an email campaign to Apple about giving us a noise reduction switch or levels of noise reduction button in settings. There's nothing wrong with the camera itself I don't believe.
 
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NewdestinyX said:
All of this auto noise reduction can still be controlled at the firmware level. All we need to do is start an email campaign to Apple about giving us a noise reduction switch or levels of noise reduction button in settings. There's nothing wrong with the camera itself I don't believe.
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is this really possible to make them actually ACT on it?
tell me where to sign!!
 
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