This is just one example of the very unimpressive images taken with the new iPhone 6S:
http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2015/09/image1.jpg
Zoom in to see the very bad result of aggressive noise cancellation algorithms (due to higher pixel density -> more noise!), resulting in "water paint" photos. And noise can still be seen very clearly in the doggy's fur.
They'll complain initially and fall in love with the quality later for the rest of the time.
I agree they will probably not go past 12MP for a very long time but you are a bit wrong that you can't control settings. Sure in the stock camera app you can't adjust stuff but that's the beauty of apps. I recommend ProCam and you can use it to adjust any setting you want, ISO, shutter speed, image size, even manual focus. Tons of options for video as well. I think it's like $3.99 but I got it free through Starbucks haha.Oh it will be improved but you're gonna have to wait until iPhone 7 for that. How do you think apple makes so much money it's definitely not by giving you everything in one package. But instead gimp some stuff here and there and offer the very thing that should've been there in the first place in the following years.
If apple touted their camera at 8MP is worlds best in class and there's just no need to cram more pixels in a tiny sensor (based on their past keynotes) then why up it to 12MP? These guys are world class salesmen. It's a business after all and you won't buy another iPhone if it had everything you wanted right now.
You wait and watch when the iPhone 7 comes out they will probably keep the same 1080p screen. Same 16GB size. It's not until maybe the iPhone 7S or even iPhone 8 they will update the screen resolution and give you 32GB as base size (which I highly doubt since 16GB base makes them a huge margin in profits.)
The most pathetic thing is even with such a great camera, you are not allowed control ISO, shutter speeds, and even image size. You just don't have options with an iPhone
Thanks. This was more of a reaction though the post I quoted. That being said though, I moved from a Nexus 6 camera (and HTC One and Moto X before that) to a Samsung Note 5, and the difference is pretty spectacular. I've had Samsung devices before and I don't recall them being as good as the N5, both in photo quality and the software used to take the photos. But the difference is night and day.
So for someone to make a blanket statement that boils down to "you're using it wrong" if your main use is photography, that might be right when comparing to high end, expensive equipment, but right now I need my camera to be able to take a great photo in less than a second when my 2 year old starts doing something funny.
I bought a Nikon DSLR over the summer because I wanted depth that I cannot get out of my iphone. I will wait to see how the new 6s compares, but I assume that the depth issue cannot be addressed by Apple. Otherwise, I may have just bought a camera I don't need.
Great, unfortunately, youtube fails to deliver the data with reasonable speed (took 10 minutes to load 20 seconds of video, and no, it's not my connection), and unfortunately my macbook pro from April this year is struggling real hard with it. Was more like a slideshow for large parts of that video. Plus, it was hardly real 4k, as the compression was too heavy to reproduce any details. And I don't even have a 4k display.
Come live with me in my house in the countryside and tell me that the green, rolling hills and birdsong at dawn is not a valuable picture.
Completely incorrect. Check the informational attachment I replied you with. It came directly from Apple's website. You don't need any computer other than your iOS device.
Completely wrong again. Check the informational attachment I replied you with. Apple's fact sheet disagrees with you.
Thanks. This was more of a reaction though the post I quoted. That being said though, I moved from a Nexus 6 camera (and HTC One and Moto X before that) to a Samsung Note 5, and the difference is pretty spectacular. I've had Samsung devices before and I don't recall them being as good as the N5, both in photo quality and the software used to take the photos. But the difference is night and day.
So for someone to make a blanket statement that boils down to "you're using it wrong" if your main use is photography, that might be right when comparing to high end, expensive equipment, but right now I need my camera to be able to take a great photo in less than a second when my 2 year old starts doing something funny.
