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Kuo: iPhone 14 Pro Models to Gain New Ultra Wide Camera With Better Low-Light Sensitivity
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Physics gets in the way, given the dimensions of smartphones. I don't think any smartphone has managed more than 10x of *real* - i.e. optical - zoom.
The ultra wide on the 13 Pro is great and very usable. I can't remember if it shares the same ultra wide as the 13.
Of my 100k photos 322 are of cats (or at least come up in a search for "cat"), or 353 for "cat like animal".
I think it's fair to say that not everyone is obsessed with taking photos of cats ;-)
Regarding battery technology, the 13 got a significant boost compared to the 12. Improved battery is not ruled out for the 14, too - but is independent of the camera. My 12 pro gets through the day with plenty of battery left. It depends on usage patterns, as well as whether you have badly behaved backgrounded apps. Worth checking your battery report in settings to see what the biggest uses are?
But this year financially is easily the worst of my adult life. At least gas has almost dropped to where it was, but nothing else is following it down. Groceries are still ludicrous
I'm on iPhone 13 (pro max) and I'm probably not Apple's target market for the 14, but these days I doubt that many people will be swayed by yet another minor camera improvement that is not even useful to the vast majority of snaps and selfies most of us take with our phones. I mean, as another poster already mentioned, how often do we need a wide angle lens? Who, among us, cares about # of megapixels? I'm sure photographers will drool over 48mp, raw formats, 60fps video at 8k res....but 99% of us just use our cameras for the quick memory while on vacation.
The only feature I've been looking for for years is better optical zoom. I think most people can commiserate that they can barely make out their kids in photos they've taken from row 20 of the school theater. Or a photo of a lunar eclipse that's barely bigger than a pin. And optical zoom has barely improved in the last 10 years. If the iPhone 14 came with a 10x optical zoom, I'd upgrade in a minute. But that has close to zero probability of happening - we'll wait another year or two before Apple has perfected a mirroring system that'll allow such magnification while still fitting into a smartphone body.
The only feature I've been looking for for years is better optical zoom. I think most people can commiserate that they can barely make out their kids in photos they've taken from row 20 of the school theater. Or a photo of a lunar eclipse that's barely bigger than a pin. And optical zoom has barely improved in the last 10 years. If the iPhone 14 came with a 10x optical zoom, I'd upgrade in a minute. But that has close to zero probability of happening - we'll wait another year or two before Apple has perfected a mirroring system that'll allow such magnification while still fitting into a smartphone body.
Nothing that crazy haha otherwise it just looks like a water coloured painting.
Truss will be taking over within a week. She'll have to do something quick and VAT is the only thing she's talked about.
Have you seen the S22 Ultra? It offers 10x optical zoom, and up to 100x zoom with stabilization. It's insane.
Sure, but that's capitalism. People are buying what they want, not nessecarily what they need, even if they can't afford to.
10x optical zoom would be nice, but 100x zoom on the S22 Ultra is even nicer. I know it's not "real" zoom, but it looks amazing.
Improved low-light photos is basically the only improvement in these cameras that makes any difference to me. All my photos in sufficient light have been fine for years now. And where they aren't fine, it is user error where I framed the show wrong or got too much backlight. Low-light photos often turn out lackluster though.
I wonder if the iPhone 14 will have any game changing, *must have* features. Probably not. Apple hasn't done anything game changing since ... um ... was Apple silicon game changing?
Instead we have endless incremental updates and more of the same thing. Has Apple lost it's ability to innovate now that there's no Steve Jobs or Jony Ive?
I miss Steve.
Instead we have endless incremental updates and more of the same thing. Has Apple lost it's ability to innovate now that there's no Steve Jobs or Jony Ive?
I miss Steve.
Sorry, I thought I was replying to the other guy.
Thats exactly why they would skip that feature. They will have no problem selling 256GB (especially if the rumors about it being the base model), so making 8K only available on 512 and better would increase sales of the higher tier models.
True the notch is maybe worth the trade off for the security benefits but I don't think stainless steel was a good choice for phones, it doesn't add enough aesthetically to be worth the extra weight
My iPhone 13 pro is 34 grams heavier than the equivalent sized phone (6.1 inch screen) from Samsung, shame the Samsung runs Android.
I, too, am very interested in an enlarged telephoto range.
Capturing a desired area with telephoto zoom on a real camera is much more reassuring, of course. Anyone who has ever tried to photograph the moon knows what I mean. Or using a tripod. The sharpness of a picture on a phone depends, of course, on a steady hand or an extremely light-sensitive chip. A good optical zoom lens consist of a lot of single lenses, you can't bring that into the small world of phones yet, no matter if periscope or not.
Due to technical limitations, phones have always shifted the previously established normal range very much into the wide angle. And I am very dissatisfied with the wide image distortion. I'm surprised that I can often still salvage wide-angle images on the Mac with post-equalization, and I hope Apple incorporates better perspective rectifications algorithms into the iPhone soon.
Apple has been able to take large-area photos quickly and precisely in panorama mode for many years...
It would be nice if I could put 2 single panoramas together (one with more sky, the second with more ground).
Despite all my criticism: Since I take a lot of photos with the iPhone every day, I am always very pleasantly surprised how much quality Apple has already achieved here. Wonderful!
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