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iPhone XS OMG the camera! (Share your iPhone Xs Images)

filmak said:
Thank you very much for your detailed reply.:):)
I'm looking to upgrade from an iPhone 6, and I was thinking to get the 8 plus or the Xs, the camera quality is a primary factor, and trying to decide. I'm a little bit worried about the posted issue of screen flicker of Xs, I don't know what to think about it.
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Ya if you are coming from a 6 you will be so happy! You’ll love the upgrade. I worried about the flicker of OLED screens too because I have strobe sensitivity but so far it hasn’t bothered me and I’ve been on it a lot and in low light. I haven’t had any headaches yet so that’s good.
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filmak said:
Thank you very much for your detailed reply.:):)
I'm looking to upgrade from an iPhone 6, and I was thinking to get the 8 plus or the Xs, the camera quality is a primary factor, and trying to decide. I'm a little bit worried about the posted issue of screen flicker of Xs, I don't know what to think about it.
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Ya if you are coming from a 6 you will be so happy! You’ll love the upgrade. I worried about the flicker of OLED screens too because I have strobe sensitivity but so far it hasn’t bothered me and I’ve been on it a lot and in low light. I haven’t had any headaches yet so that’s good.
 
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mebehere said:
I believe I understand what you’re saying now. The phone does a great job with close subjects. But on a 100-yard field, you simply can’t get that close with a phone, or any other subject of great distance.

Also, I’m a purist. A real camera doesn’t need unnecessary software. The DSLR acts the same as an SLR. Pixels capture what film did before. It’s an art. It takes someone who knows how to capture a scene in a truly artistic way. Not just snapping away and changing bokeh after the fact. I learned from a small book three things. Aperture, shutter speed and ISO. Then I started turning the dials.
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I didn't see the original post so maybe I'm missing the point, but the phones have fixed focal length lenses.
So, what you do with a phone when you want to zoom is digitally crop. That is, you just take the middle out of the image and display it so it looks bigger. Any noise, artefacts etc will be much more obvious because your pixels (which have no actual size until you define what they are) will be a lot bigger.
They do a pretty good job nowadays considering, but using a really good bit of glass to magnify the image before it hits the sensor, should be better- and it usually is.
I'm with you though on the purist thing. To me it isn't really photography if you just snap away and hope for the best and I simply don't enjoy it as much.
I do think it's important to post process though as it's rare that an image doesn't benefit from a bit of cropping or tweaking the contrast at least.
Look at Adams' work and see just how much darkroom work he did. The master of dodge and burn.
Someone told me when I first got into photography that it's the ones you throw away that really make the difference. Never keep a bad image and certainly never show it to anyone and then they will think you are a good photographer.
Better to have a hundred images a year you are proud of than a few thousand where most of them are just ok or worse.
 
840quadra said:
My biggest issue with the Xs is how it tends to over compensate for low light by bringing up the shadows too much in some of my examples. If that could be toned down a little, it would be far more appealing in my opinion.
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This is my single biggest annoyance with the S9 and P20 Pro. They have a tendency to overbrighten dark photos e.g dusk is made to look like day time.
 
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A couple of 100% raw photos I just took outside my apartment and then a few low light photos. I tried to match the amount of light coming in through the windows in each. The darker is obviously the X and the lighter in XS Max.
 

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ApplePieAlaMode said:
Ya if you are coming from a 6 you will be so happy! You’ll love the upgrade. I worried about the flicker of OLED screens too because I have strobe sensitivity but so far it hasn’t bothered me and I’ve been on it a lot and in low light. I haven’t had any headaches yet so that’s good.
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I really appreciate your help, actual user's experience is precious. Thanks.

Xs looks very tempting indeed.

I'm a bit curious if there is any visible difference (8+ - Xs) in good morning light, in low light it's obvious that the Xs is a lot better.
 
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So for those taking pictures of objects (not people) with the blurred backgrounds... is this using portrait mode or just a regular photo? I assume you don't get the depth control option unless its a person?
 
Will the XR have the same foto quality minus the zoom option and the beautiful portrait mode? Gona get a XR 128 GB black as OLED hurts my eyes too much.
 
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