I've taken pictures at this same spot on the strip with almost all the iPhones I've owned and this is the best an iPhone has ever taken for me:
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With all of my previous iPhones, either the foreground (the subjects / people) was dark and the background fully illuminated OR the other way around.
First shot I took with the Xs Max, everything was clear and visible.
Another one I took from the 30th floor of the Parc 55 in San Francisco:
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LOL at the same threads for every new model.
Its still just a phone camera.
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On Max...![]()