If careful the regular camera button works well, too. I do a lot of lower light images and use the red button and get great results. It is good we have choice.
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If careful the regular camera button works well, too. I do a lot of lower light images and use the red button and get great results. It is good we have choice.
I have had the X for a few days now and AF/exposure have been fine. I do have haptics enabled. The only thing I have to compare it to is my older iPhone 6, my mother's iPhone 8 Plus, and my Olympus OM-D E-M5. So far the X seems to shoot on par with my mother's 8 Plus, better than my 6, but still not quite up there with my Olympus (at least not in anything other than good light). I've been very pleased with the results so far. Even the low light shots turned out pretty nice. Yes sometimes the exposure needs a little tweaking, but the same is true for high-end Olympus, Nikon, and Sony cameras as well. Correct exposure is a range, and no camera will always choose what you think of as the correct exposure, but it will usually be within a stop. So far AF has been really accurate on my X, including face detect.
On the topic of volume button vs virtual red button: At slower shutter speeds any camera movement can impact photos quality, even with OIS. It's easy to cause unintentional movement when you press a physical button. Even a virtual button. the 3 second timer delay will help, but if you need to time things more precisely you just have to practice and go with what works best for you.
Can you post some examples that demonstrate the problems you are having with focus and/or exposure? What exposure modes are you seeing the issues with? regular photo or portrait? Both?
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I have just joined this thread as I am too having blurry photos with my X, if I take a picture and then enlarge it its very pixelated and blurry, my 6s took better pictures than this one. If you look at my two cats picture you can see that there is blur all over. nothing appears to be in sharp focus.
I am planning a Apple Store Genius visit in January so will see what they say.
I am planning a Apple Store Genius visit in January so will see what they say.
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You image is out of focus. You need to tell the camera where to focus by touching that area. Head and eyes are preferred.
As Newton's Apple said, it could be a focus issue, but I'm also looking at this thinking it looks like some pretty extreme noise reduction was applied to this image. Was this is really low light? You can see the painterly effect throughout the image, but especially on the fur towards the tail, where all detail has been smudged away. This is not unusual with extreme noise reduction. Can you post examples taken in better light? If you still have your 6s, take the same photo in the same lighting conditions with both cameras.When you are shooting indoors, there can be a huge difference between a shot taken one foot from a lamp, vs one taken 5 feet from a lamp or light source.
Update: EXIF shows this was only ISO 100, but at 1/4s shutter speed. That's very slow, but this doesn't look like camera shake as much as it looks like noise reduction. Was the original underexposed and then you edited it to increase brightness? That will result in loss of detail as well. Overall I'm pretty impressed with what the iPhone X can do in low light, but sometimes the auto settings don't make the best decisions for shutter speed vs ISO, or don't set the ideal exposure. Manual camera apps can help in that regard (especially those that support RAW) but I've found the native camera app gets it right more often than wrong.
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The principle is the same. You got to tell your camera what to focus on, especially in low light where field of focus is very thin. Your image was out of focus.
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Hi,
I too am getting similar results regarding blurry photos. I often take photos of my 2 year old son and my partner but never can get a decent photo, although I do sometimes manually focus. What I’m seeing on my iPhone X screen isn’t how my phone processes the photo, it’s as if every time I press the button it slightly comes out of focus resulting in unpleasant photos. I’ve never had this problem with the last two modes of iPhones I’ve owned, that being 7 Plus and 6S. Unless I’m outside majority of the photos I take feel like 2 steps back in quality.
Any thoughts on this issue I would love to hear!
