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Night Mode on iPhone: Everything You Need to Know
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And you clearly know the sensor used in the iPhone XS is able to do night mode, right ?
This only shows how bad iPhones were in interior low light situations. Of course I knew that cause I shot side by side with iPhone X and Sony XZ2 Compact which has full manual shutter, metering, iso, object tracking to minimize blur during low light and it does all that without OIS. I was always able to get fully lit interior scenes even with a single light bulb output while iPhone X has always failed miserably. 11 is an improvement in low light conditions but not by much. I couldn't care less for night mode cause turning night into day or day into night doesn't fascinate me at all, I've been doing it for way too long on photos and video to understand horribly and off it looks.
Of course it can, it's image stacking after the photos have already been taken just like any other night mode pretty much. It doesn't buffer images in camera memory stack before you shoot. So everything happens after. I also believe they have to develop or adjust the night mode for the each sensor and that takes time and effort so it's a lot easier for them to sell you a new phone.
Yikes, those iPhone carnival shots look average with the dark halo in the sky around the ride. Maybe it has similar flaws to portrait mode where it's easy to fool the "smarts".
I think iPhone Xs & Xr or maybe iPhone X hardware good enough to ENABLE Night Mode, but like we already know, Apple need SELLING NEW iPhone that way this feature LIMITED on New iDevice (iPhone 11, 11 Pro)
We hope there are Jailbreak and Enable this MODS on older device....
I know, on OLD iPhone the result not good enough on NEW iPhone Night Mode, but that good enough on OLD iDevice enjoy this feature too....
We hope there are Jailbreak and Enable this MODS on older device....
I know, on OLD iPhone the result not good enough on NEW iPhone Night Mode, but that good enough on OLD iDevice enjoy this feature too....
So excited about this! I love that they made it automatic. Many think you need to be a photography expert and fiddle around with settings while you risk losing the picture so hopefully this works well with no fiddling.
I upgraded from an iPX to a iP11 Pro and I am super impressed with night mode so far. Yes all previous iPhones had huge problems with noise in low light conditions. But not only low light I took pictures with both phones in normal indoor light conditions and the 11 Pro is a huge improvement. I was serious considering buying a camera b/c I was never totally happy with my iPX - I now no am longer considering a camera purchase - very happy with my upgrade.
These are looking really nice. However, one thing I've seen showing up in reviews and videos of the camera being used at night is the presence of extra light reflections floating around the frame. For example, in that first carnival ride picture, there are extra reflections just hanging out in space... It's almost like you'd need some kind of polarizing filter to get rid of the reflections in the glass. I've seen it in many places like this:
How well does Night mode do if someone is walking around in the background during the 3 second period of taking a picture, or if you are taking a picture of something spinning (ie, it looks like one of the comparison pics between the 11 pro, pixel 3 and s10+ is an amusement ride that spins).
Has anyone tried astrophotography in night mode? I'd be interested to see examples and how it compares to the just-announced Pixel 4
I really wish there was a faster way to turn off night mode. I was at a nighttime wedding a few weeks back and missed so many great shots because of the amount of time it took to turn off night mode. The interface needs an instant-off way to turn that feature off.
It doesn't do well when subjects are moving. You're much better off using the flash or just using it without night mode.
It doesn't do well when subjects are moving. You're much better off using the flash or just using it without night mode.
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I find it fairly unlikely that apple discovered a new type of lens technology - more likely it's software based. Apple has a long history of holding things back and then making them exclusive to certain hardware. With sufficient software workarounds, some of their features that are exclusive to certain phones or computers can be used on older hardware via alternative methods. That's a large part of what makes them successful - other than awesome products - don't get me wrong, I love apple - but their teasing something, making it exclusive to certain devices after other companies beat them on technology and then playing catchup (while refining the user experience amazingly), is their shtick. Let's not pretend that's not the case. It's the apple way - and it works
Yup, which is why, IMHO, the P&S market is doomed. I suspect the dSLR cameras will up their game to stay ahead, although in many ways they are two distinct markets. I my iPhone takes great now shots, but for more serious work I prefer my Canon with L glass.
You can click on Icon on the left top. This gives you option to choose night modes between off-auto-max. You can slide to right to turn if off for that specific photo(did not test it for multiple photos)
But that mostly worked because nobody is moving in the photo, even a little. The comparison shots with the Pixel phone in the article show that it also does "too good" a job on the sky, the sky is black but it tries to lighten it up (not that you can't fix that in a few seconds in Photoshop but still)