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Frankly I don’t care what professional photographers can do with an iPhone. I don’t carry lighting equipment, umbrellas, meters, or go out looking for the best conditions to take a picture nor do I spend hours shopping the picture afterwards. (Not even if I ever took a selfie. I am who I am.)

I along with almost every single person sees their dog doing something cute they point and shoot. If I’m walking by the lake and the fall colors are beautiful...I point and shoot and probably message it.

These professional photographer going “hands on” stories are really quite pointless.
 
Why didn’t he post the original pictures? Downscaled most pictures looks better... Show me these filling up my 32“ display, probably too bad in original size.
Yes, it would be more effective to see the original. But don't worry: professional photographers won't work with the fraud you suspect. They would lose their reputation.
It's probably better if you ask the MacRumors team.
 
Rinse and repeat. This guy gets early access to free iPhones and then says glowing things about them. What a shocker. And then macrumors posts this as some sort of unbiased "review".

Give me free phones every year and I'll say nice things too.
 
I disagree completely. On both your examples, iPhone 11 Pro blew Pixel's out of the water. They're the exact photo you'll want to get if you shoot them with camera with very high sensitive film/sensor (& with tripod).
Btw, iPhone 11 Pro photo on both examples are not "blown out". Learns about what blown out means. The word you're looking for is "bright". You may say it's too bright. I'll say it's enoght bright to get all the details.
The way the Pixel photo happened like that on 6:24 is not because its brightness on point but because it's lack a capability to do high HDR on dark scene.
And colour accuracy is also on point on iPhone 11 Pro while Pixel is too blueish which show its white balance in dark scene is not up to the new iPhone standard.
What these comparisons show is that the current Pixel would never get that fisherman shot as good as iPhone 11 Pro.

"bright"

Technically the term is overexposure.
 
Frankly I don’t care what professional photographers can do with an iPhone. I don’t carry lighting equipment, umbrellas, meters, or go out looking for the best conditions to take a picture nor do I spend hours shopping the picture afterwards. (Not even if I ever took a selfie. I am who I am.)

I along with almost every single person sees their dog doing something cute they point and shoot. If I’m walking by the lake and the fall colors are beautiful...I point and shoot and probably message it.

These professional photographer going “hands on” stories are really quite pointless.


Nope because people actually use their phones for photography in the exact opposite way that you describe here.
So it's entirely relevant to them.
 
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This new iPhone reminded me how much more I can still do with my iPhone XR Max and my beautiful GoPro hero 7.

Update to this hideous 3-eye overpriced phone? Nah thanks mate, I already got everything I need to exactly what you’re showing me. 😎📸

Maybe next year Apple.
 
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Frankly I don’t care what professional photographers can do with an iPhone. I don’t carry lighting equipment, umbrellas, meters, or go out looking for the best conditions to take a picture nor do I spend hours shopping the picture afterwards. (Not even if I ever took a selfie. I am who I am.)

I along with almost every single person sees their dog doing something cute they point and shoot. If I’m walking by the lake and the fall colors are beautiful...I point and shoot and probably message it.

These professional photographer going “hands on” stories are really quite pointless.

And it doesn't matter that a professional can get perfect portrait bokeh in controlled conditions when in real life the edge detection messed up your dog's fur.
 
Why didn’t he post the original pictures? Downscaled most pictures looks better... Show me these filling up my 32“ display, probably too bad in original size.

You really don’t believe that. So why would you even entertain the idea that the quality is bad?
 
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To be perfectly honest, all this praise for the new camera module sure as heck makes me want to order one... then I wake up to reality and realize the XS Max is already an incredible phone and as of right now I don't take too many pictures. Dang Apple marketing.

This is good news for those not updating- the next phone will be better and you will be rewarded
 
I love the new dark mode MacRumors! Looks really good.

As per Austin’ s photos, call me impressed. Apple has clearly caught up and surpassed in many cases the best of Android’s cameras.
lol I nearly went blind from the contrast. Thankfully we both can be happy and switch between light/dark modes!

As for the iPhone 11 camera. Maybe next year, I just finished paying for my 8
 
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Getting better and better ....lovely low light photo of the fisherman ..the lantern lighting is nice but the background also jaw dropping. Waiting for the next gen 4 lens system with additional telephoto zoom 400mmF2.8 SLR equivalent. Tim, you can do it!!!
 
Given that you can 'uncrop' later, there is no downside to shooting in a 'crop mode'. But it can help in framing an image when you already 'preview' it in the desired aspect ratio.

Ah I didn’t know you could uncrop an image shot in crop mode, this is very informative. Thanks!
 
The fact that night mode actually keeps the shot looking at night, paired with the battery and screen brightness upgrades, makes me almost want to upgrade. Night shots are my favorite and it really threw me off when I realized that for other manufacturers, night mode just meant making the picture look like daylight. I hate that.
 
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The percentage of customer upgrading its iPhone solely for newer or more camera lens is seemingly low and makes very little sense. I suggest  stop ruining the smartphone aesthetic with lenses and notch screen.

Really? Personally, I think camera changes drive the need to upgrade as that seems to be where the biggest change is happening, year over year...
 
I love the new dark mode MacRumors! Looks really good.

As per Austin’ s photos, call me impressed. Apple has clearly caught up and surpassed in many cases the best of Android’s cameras.

Thanks for the dark mode info. Didn't know the update included this.
 
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I wish those photos which demonstrate Night Mode were tagged with luminance readings from a lux meter. It would be interesting to know how dark it actually was when a photo was taken when comparing competing phone cameras.
 
I’m so tired of seeing those pictures of fake fishermen in Guilin, China. They make money from posing for photos everyday, not fishing.
I totally get what you're saying. But really, are they any different than the wannabe actors who don superhero costumes and make money charging for selfies on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles? Wherever there's money to be made, you'll find poseurs.
 
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