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iPhone 7 Photos Highlight New Year's Eve Festivities Around the World

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Apple partnered with 15 photographers in a number of countries around the world to capture New Year's Eve festivities with photos taken on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus devices, according to CNN.

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The photos range from Samah El Ali's shot of the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge fireworks from The Royal Botanic Gardens in Australia to John Lehmann's shot of festivities in Vancouver on Canada's west coast.

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Katja Sherlock captured one of the first photos of the 2017 sign in Times Square after the ball drop in New York, while other photographers captured fireworks and sights in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, India, Austria, Italy, Iceland, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates.

Photo Gallery at CNN: What New Year's Eve celebrations look like around the world

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It would be nice to compare the photos from the original iPhone. I get mixed results with fireworks at night even using the same camera (automatic point and shoot type). Sometimes it looks amazing and other times blurry or the light is bad. Have not tried with the iPhone 7 Plus yet.
 
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There was iPhone videos and photos taken at Istanbul Turkey night club with where a PA man was injured but that won't be in CNN's gallery. His life was spared when a bullet missed an artery after hitting his cell phone. We are unable to identify what model phone and case he was using.
 
Well, if they are able to notch up the quality than it's time to bulk up the megapixels.

However, focus on the selfie-camera Apple. 4G-LTE all over the world, can't Facetime in 4K to an iMac with 5K resolution.
 
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WBRacing said:
I'd like to see the full res photos to get a true view of what the quality is like. As 780x439 it looks fine if given only a quick glance and not zoomed in on.
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The quality is probably similar to what you'd expect. The iPhone's strong suit is that it's photos look great on smartphones, since the pictures are viewed small enough for noise & noise reduction to be unnoticeable. Blown up, the photos are probably quite noisy.

To be fair, I remember just a few years ago when my smartphone couldn't even take pictures at night time altogether. All you could make out is a bright light against a black backdrop. Progress!
 
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v0lume4 said:
The quality is probably similar to what you'd expect. The iPhone's strong suit is that it's photos look great on smartphones, since the pictures are viewed small enough for noise & noise reduction to be unnoticeable. Blown up, the photos are probably quite noisy.

To be fair, I remember just a few years ago when my smartphone couldn't even take pictures at night time altogether. All you could make out is a bright light against a black backdrop. Progress!
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Agreed. If you have noticed lately in the marketing department with Apple and Samsung, both of them are pushing photo's in low light, advertising more photo's taken in low light and which Phone purportedly has the better camera in low lighting.

Quality has improved in low lighting, but it's still in the process of improving. It's no where near perfect, but I can contest with my 7 Plus how much improved it is over my 6s Plus in low light shots.
 
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A single photo representing an entire country's celebration? That Vancouver, Canada photo is seriously lacking. I don't believe that Apple "partnered" with photographers to result in just these.... there must be more?
 
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v0lume4 said:
To be fair, I remember just a few years ago when my smartphone couldn't even take pictures at night time altogether. All you could make out is a bright light against a black backdrop. Progress!
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I remember just how terrible they were! It is why I bought an HTC One M7 as I wanted good low light photos and it was an excellent step forward. That was nearly four years ago now though so I do feel progress has been a bit, leisurely.
 
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dominiongamma said:
Agree I don't understand why Apple is behind on front camera tech
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I could be totally wrong about this, but maybe Apple is deliberately leaving a lower resolution camera on the front so people don't look that bad during FaceTime.

A 4K camera will show every flaw and blemish on peoples' faces.

This is similar to the porn industry vs the pornstars on the use of 4K cameras.

Of course, this could be totally wrong.
 
coolfactor said:
A single photo representing an entire country's celebration? That Vancouver, Canada photo is seriously lacking. I don't believe that Apple "partnered" with photographers to result in just these.... there must be more?
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Did you click on the article....?
 
vertical smile said:
I could be totally wrong about this, but maybe Apple is deliberately leaving a lower resolution camera on the front so people don't look that bad during FaceTime.

A 4K camera will show every flaw and blemish on peoples' faces.

This is similar to the porn industry vs the pornstars on the use of 4K cameras.

Of course, this could be totally wrong.
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Whilst you make a good point, I think the answer is perhaps simpler...
 
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Avieshek said:
Well, if they are able to notch up the quality than it's time to bulk up the megapixels.

However, focus on the selfie-camera Apple. 4G-LTE all over the world, can't Facetime in 4K to an iMac with 5K resolution.
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Bulking up the megapixels tends to have an inverse effect on the image's quality. Smaller individual pixels pick up less light, resulting in a darker, grainier image. Even Android manufacturers have backed away from the megapixel race at this point.

It's a slow process, but they'll get to higher res sensors eventually as the technology progresses.
 
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WBRacing said:
I'd like to see the full res photos to get a true view of what the quality is like. As 780x439 it looks fine if given only a quick glance and not zoomed in on.
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Exactly. You know what else looks good without full resolution... certain actors. But put them at full resolution and geez!
 
I'm pretty impressed with that fireworks shot. If the iPhone 7 camera isn't the best in class overall, the difference probably won't matter much to me!

Steve.P.JobsFan said:
Let's get FaceTime to 1080p first before we start talking about 4K and above.
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Is ultra-high-definition video chat really that important? I mean, even 720p lets me see someone's crow's feet but not their black heads. I'm fine if we stop right there. How bout we get Apple to give us 4K on their AppleTVs first?
 
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