iPhone 12 Pro Is this lens flare (ghosting) effect normal?

[MiamiC70]

Horrible on my 12 Pro Max. Apple should be ashamed to put out a phone with improper lens coatings and baffling to mitigate internal reflections and ghost flares.

 

[1rottenapple]

Today I used the camera on my new 12 Pro at night and I noticed this really weird lens flare, it looks like a copy of the light source in cyan/green... It's really noticeable and I don't remember having this problem on my 8 Plus... Is this normal? Can you guys test this on your iPhones?

Yup I don't know why its like that. The 12 pro max was present when I'm shooting and there's light facing me, and frankly it was disappointing knowing the phone cost me $1350+ so I wasn't too happy discovering this. The 12 mini does it too but its not as upsetting to me since it cost much less than the max.

 

[1rottenapple]

If it’s a lens thing why doesn’t this happen with older iPhones? Seems to be much more prevalent with the 11 and 12?

THIS! I never experience this with my XS max. I don't get why it does this.

 

[1rottenapple]

Seems strange the issue has gained so much traction with the 11 and 12 though. Are people suddenly pointing their iPhone cameras at bright light sources now?

Its prominent with the new phones. Come on I used my XS max as my main and only camera on dozens upon dozens of trips and thousands of pictures including shooting into the light, and and perhaps its was present but it wasn't noticeable. I've never noticed it but when you have glowing blue orbs and blue-is green UFOs on this nice and fancy camera it sticks out so people need to stop defending apple and call a spade a spade.

 

[Madtiger27]

For those of you with memory loss or chronic “grass is greener on the other side” syndrome:

https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/ivnd4h

This one showed that iPhone is actually better than Note20U at flare control.

Sony Xperia 1 II review: The second coming

Second time success or too many shortcomings?

www.google.com

Scroll down to camera section. Sony latest flare during daytime!


iPhone XS has bad flare too: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250357432

 

[Corgirat]

Today I used the camera on my new 12 Pro at night and I noticed this really weird lens flare, it looks like a copy of the light source in cyan/green... It's really noticeable and I don't remember having this problem on my 8 Plus... Is this normal? Can you guys test this on your iPhones?

I had this also last night

 

[ParagJain]

Reading all this, realized that its perfectly normal for lens flare, the question to camera experts is what is the best way to minimize it?
shooting at a particular angle, light source, etc etc something i can take care.. any tips and tricks will be very helpful.

Edit: Also, some of the photos that apple showed or shows during its advertisement, they are stunning; I am very sure Apple will never fake any pictures. How is it that their photographers are able to use iphone 12 and click such beautiful pictures and when a point-n-shoot type of guy like me takes picture, its way away from beautiful photos..

again, few trips to improve will be helpful.

 

[hashsi99]

Here another sick photo... Take photos in this way is ridiculous.

Are you using a clear case without a black ring around camera cut out?

also go to settings camera lens correction. Is it on?

 

[kneezmo]

Are you using a clear case without a black ring around camera cut out?

also go to settings camera lens correction. Is it on?

Original Apple white silicon case. Yes, all is activated