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Photographer Austin Mann Praises iPhone 11 Pro Camera
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Where does this come from? any evidence to support this conspiracy theory?
Your statement "If complex, expensive and impractical setups were used, it’s extremely misleading (and borderline false advertising) to purport to consumers that it’s the quality you can get from the iPhone alone, yet they do this every year." is completely false. The pictures are shot from an iPhone by a professional photographer. Was that not clear enough for you? The professional photographer can use any method he likes in his professional capacity, he is simply commenting on his use of the iPhone as a tool. He could have taken the shots from many different angles and many devices at the same time, those are not reflected here.
Maybe you confused it with an article "amateur snapshots taken on an iPhone"?
I see nothing inconsistent with theses photos being made with no additional gear.
Why stir up the pot with FUD?
ummm? Cause this article is about the new iPhone Pro camera? yah, that sounds right. There are some features on the Pro models which are not on the 11, but for most people, the 11 is good enough. You could look for an article on the iPhone 11 (not the Pro version), they are out there
Well, you are not that into photography, point taken and thanks for sharing. Truth is many people are enthralled by photography, not just snappies. That is why people write article from a professional photographers perspective, and they are not "pointless", just because you are not interested in them.
The article doesn't make too much mention of it, but personally I'm excited to get the 2x optical zoom from that third lens on the pros. A little more zoom (3-5x) would be even better of course, but being able to effectively "half your distance" to the target is a nice option for those times when you can't physically get any closer to what you're taking pictures of.
Personally one setting I would like to see tested with these cameras is an indoor concert. It's generally pretty difficult to take pictures in that setting (dark backgrounds, spot lighting, etc.), and I wonder how much the night mode and/or the zoom (it sounds like you can't mix both?) will help there.
Yeah I don’t think there is much benefit personally. It’s all digital crop regardless of when you do it.
To the contrary, but not from a device that’s primary function isn’t photography. You’re welcome.
But more to the point the fact a professional photographer can take a nice picture with any PHONE after carefully staging every aspect from shot to shopping it afterwards isn’t ground breaking news. It’s not a selling point. It’s kinda expected, wouldn’t you say? So these stories of pros taking pictures is pointless.
(Particularly when 99.999 (repeating) % of time the camera’s use is point and click. )
The main subject is well lit. That's what matters. No need for tripod, just use 1600 ISO film. And the dark sky would be even darker.
Nope. DSLR cameras cost way more and are totally worth it (for some). I am just saying that these particular pictures are good pictures not because they were technically challenging but because they were shot professionally. People who buy new iPhone (or DSLR) and expect that their pictures will also look as good might be severely disappointed. It takes skills to take good pictures.
When did taking pictures become so important? I don’t remember the last time I took a picture of something. I find the whole picture thing pretty lame.
Since the mid 1800s.
I, and no doubt many millions of others, make photos everyday with my phone.
"Mann said that while he likes the feature, he didn't love the preview of what's outside the frame because it was sometimes distracting when composing an image."
My first thought when I saw this feature was I want to turn it off. I think I would be annoyed by it. Someone please tell me there's a setting for it you can turn off...
My first thought when I saw this feature was I want to turn it off. I think I would be annoyed by it. Someone please tell me there's a setting for it you can turn off...
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It probably comes from the fact that his photos don't look nearly as good. And since his ego doesn't allow him to admit that he simply isn't such good a photographer, he invents this theory the shown photos were all created with a lot of additional gear.
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There is a setting whether the phone should keep the images from both cameras or not (which for still photography is set to On by default and for video to Off by default). It's quite likely that when switched off, also the preview of the second, wider camera disappears.
I hope there will be comparisons with flagship compact cameras such as the Sony RX100VI. I have one for travel purposes but if the iPhone's camera is just as good, then I might sell my camera.
Huh, good call, could very well be. (Although I would still prefer to have the option to keep the multi-capture on but have the preview off.)
Yeah Apple put great cameras on their phones for 1% of people
No, for 1% of 1%.
When’s the last time you lugged around a bunch of lights, meter, umbrella, and a model or two to the market just in the happenstance you need to take a picture with your phone?
I've done that many times - you?
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No meter though.
That's the point that he's showing off this photo, that's the sky isn't dark anymore.
There is when one uses the iPhone on it's side. Where the shutter button is either left or right of the viewfinder.
A landscape display does not a camera “landscape mode” make.
Nor is it clear why anyone would EVER want to crop the photo before capturing the image. That’s just throwing away pixels.