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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.
 
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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?

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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.
 
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.
 
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?

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I had this also last night
 
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.
 
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