iPhone 13 Pro Max Oversharpening in jpeg iPhone 13 pro (with fix)

[ddrulez]

Hello,
I was very disappointed in the picture quality of the jpeg pictures. There where too sharp.
Shooting in raw was fine and the picture quality really good.

So if you want to reduce the sharpening here's the fix.
1. Go and edit the picture with the photo app.
2. Manipulate a slider. (Best is one at the end with a zero value) Now restore the original value of the slider.
3. Hit ok and leave the editor without.

Done. The picture now is desharpened.

Here's a YouTube vid. Sorry for the bad English
https://youtube.com/shorts/7PljzZw-1yM?feature=share

 

[dk001]

Was glad to find this! A nice work-around for now.
Hope Apple fixes this sometime soon. Making some of the photos into crap.

 

[jm31828]

What about the complaints many have had of pictures that are not in focus- very "watercolor" looking? Does this help those as well?

 

[now i see it]

This is an iPhone 13 screw up. Earlier iPhones don’t have this problem.

 

[jm31828]

This is an iPhone 13 screw up. Earlier iPhones don’t have this problem.

Even the 13 Mini and regular 13 don't have this issue from what I understand- it is just the Pro line.

 

[RRC]

Even the 13 Mini and regular 13 don't have this issue from what I understand- it is just the Pro line.

It’s not as bad on the non Pro models, but annoyingly there’s still no toggle for HDR. Apple really need to address this!

 

[kamranbashir]

hi there,
after trying to resolve this issue by playing with settings for the past few days and contacting apple support i couldn’t find a fix until i turned off capture outside the frame in camera settings. apparently this disables deep fusion which is to blame for the over sharpening and over processing of images.

 

[dk001]

I have this one posted in 15.2 beta 3 thread

Been doing a bit of playing to see how the Camera oversharpens.
Here are a pair of pics, one Camera, one Halide. Same light, same distance, same lens.
The Halide photo is very representative of what I see. The Camera really over sharpens.

 

[now i see it]

Due to computational photography now being the In Thing, final picture rendering is now like cooking and the engineers at Apple get to decide what it’s going to taste like.
Obviously they’re not cooks interested in fine cuisine- it’s all about Cocoa Puffs and Fruit Loops with them.

 

[ToddH]

Hello,
I was very disappointed in the picture quality of the jpeg pictures. There where too sharp.
Shooting in raw was fine and the picture quality really good.

So if you want to reduce the sharpening here's the fix.
1. Go and edit the picture with the photo app.
2. Manipulate a slider. (Best is one at the end with a zero value) Now restore the original value of the slider.
3. Hit ok and leave the editor without.

Done. The picture now is desharpened.

Here's a YouTube vid. Sorry for the bad English

Interesting, the video is gone. I don’t have to worry about this technique though because I shoot RAW. I control my sharpening in post with masking in Lightroom mobile.