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iPhone XS OMG the camera! (Share your iPhone Xs Images)
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A couple of my car and a Passion flower in our garden!
Could you please inform me about your thoughts regarding the difference in quality when comparing the 8 plus photos to the healthy XS max ones. Also when HDR is not used, is there a significant difference too?
The car...A couple of my car and a Passion flower in our garden!
All 3 cameras were left at default settings. Whatever comes turned on by default, was left on same for factory disabled settings. IIRC iPhone X had HDR off by default but someone else can confirm. I have already wiped the phone to give to my mom. She had a new Apple Watch series 4 to pair with it
.100% Crops of all 3 cameras. In this example the X did really well for the section I cropped, as it grabbed focus on the leaves in the foreground. I believe the Xs was focused on something else all together.
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100% crops at 2X zoom. This is where the single fixed camera of the Pixel 2 really falls down. My favorite image is the Xs as it pulled in more detail at the highlighted top center, all without being blotchy like the Pixel 2.
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Not a cool moment, but just for fun while washing the car today.
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The future is lens-less!
http://www.caltech.edu/news/ultra-thin-camera-creates-images-without-lenses-78731
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Which camera phones are you comparing it to which causes you turn your nose up at it?
I'm comparing it to real cameras just like Apple does. Apple doesn't get on stage and compare it to a S9, they compare it to DSLRs.
Went and took some photos purely to test out the portrait mode in nature, haven't retouched or filtered anything (I was just around my apartment complex, so don't expect anything amazing lol). Had some decent results. It's still questionable with some of the depth control for leaves and whatnot, but not too shabby. Can't wait for the day that they merge the regular and portrait modes - would like to have all of these options on regular photos also.
This is pretty good. It's still a pretty sharp cutoff between the subject and background, but you can tell they're doing a better job at replicating the varying intensities of blur depending on distance.
Snapped this last night in the car! No filter or editing whatsoever. (please ignore the filthy windshield)
Beauty. I miss my 135i sometimes. Usually when the weather is really nice.
I see a difference with my 8+ For sure. The 8 plus has a softer focus with crappier white balance for sure. Still a decent camera though. The Max pics were great for detail but still there is some slight grain/noise in certain lighting conditions. I like the HDR for some scenes but for others I found it lost contrast in the darks and made the colors too blendy. I set up my Max to have optional HDR so I can turn it off when I want to. Overall it’s a good upgrade. It’s fun to plan with the bokeh effects although they aren’t comparable to a pro lens it’s still fun to play with. For that reason I’m happy I upgraded.
Let's just take a moment to reflect on how far we've come, this was taken with my first iPhone, the iPhone 3G lol:
Dang... I started with the 3Gs and thought that was great compared to the louse blackberry curve I had prior to that. Man that was a lousy phone. Today I upgraded to the Xs and love the camera. Had the X, now my wife has it. As a photographer, I am happy Apple finally did something good to the camera, mainly the sensor. Maybe next year the telephoto will be f/2. The wide, f/1.5
