Not sure I could disagree more tbh. Saying they look "terrible" is borderline insane. Each to their own I guess.
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Photographer Austin Mann Shares iPhone 12 Pro Max Camera Review
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Phew we are all glad that you now rest your case. LOL
Yep almost the exact same size of my 7 Plus that I have been using for 4 years.
- Height: 6.23 inches (158.2 mm)
- Width: 3.07 inches (77.9 mm)
- Depth: 0.29 inch (7.3 mm)
- Weight: 6.63 ounces (188 grams)
Coming from an 11 pro max to a 12 pro, the battery life difference is dramatic, if that is important to you, you’re going to be disappointed, screen size is fine though. I ordered the max and will return the pro, no way I can manage with that much of a battery hit.
Yep, I’m waiting until they work these new camera features into the smaller “Pro” phone.
it is amazing but there is just way too much noise reduction in the milky way image and there are terrible ringing artifacts around the stars.
Y’all returning Pro’s for the Max should be wearing a dunce cap. You knew the smaller version can’t come close to battery life using a mini tablet.
I feel like it might feel bigger because of the hard edges vs slightly round.
The photos are amazing and so is the camera quality. I think this phone is best for photographers.
The photos are good. Not earth-shattering better, as expected. But if the level of the bar is exclusively mobile - I'd say it is one of the best.
At this stage of technology, all the current iPhones take great photos for viewing on small screens. Any difference made by a larger tiny sensor are not going to be noticed easily. The average time a person views a photo on small screens is too short to matter anyway.
IMO, the mobile phone camera is perfect to capture memories/moments in time. But I wouldn't use it as a primary tool for artistic purposes.
At this stage of technology, all the current iPhones take great photos for viewing on small screens. Any difference made by a larger tiny sensor are not going to be noticed easily. The average time a person views a photo on small screens is too short to matter anyway.
IMO, the mobile phone camera is perfect to capture memories/moments in time. But I wouldn't use it as a primary tool for artistic purposes.
This.
The photos are okay on a phone screen, but if you look at the website on a Macbook screen, all the photos look heavily processed.
But it seems like it's becoming the norm ...
No. What people don’t understand is there are no giant breakthroughs left in tiny lenses. Sure they will get better and keep getting better but the hype of a slightly bigger sensor (still TINY) and sensor shift stabilization (small improvement) was somehow going to be this huge shift... now we see the truth, it’s a difference on less than 5% of typical shots and then only if you “pixel peep” and zoom in. The real truth hard as it is to say is the iPhone 12 / 12 Pro / 12 Pro Max cameras all produce near identical results because the underlying hardware is nearly identical. Software won’t fix the laws of physics.
I don’t think the Hubble telescope could approach the “earth-shattering” quality some people expect.
I swear anytime people praise a product it has to be biased...clearly people who praise the pixel camera are clearly paid by google too.
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Do you have actual substantive criticism about the photos he tried or the conclusions he drew?
The photos have a really great composition, the photographer is talented, no doubt with that, but the quality of the camera is greatly exaggerated. Every single photo is over processed by the iPhone to look not that bad on a little screen, that's all. If you look at the photos (from a picture quality standpoint) on a computer screen they look garbage. But I'm sure they make great memories from the trip.
Trust me, I would be happy to buy a a few iPhones to replace my cameras and gears.
I agree for some. The astrophotography one really doesn't scale well to the desktop.
The first two canyon shots and the fire and plant ones, though? I can barely see how bigger gear would've done better (for the second canyon one, the dynamic range where the sun hits the rocks is poor, but that's about it).
Well, there will always be use cases for bigger gear. Unfortunately, camera vendors don't seem to be putting the same amount of effort into improving their software (and, for some components like a gyroscope, hardware) as phone manufacturers are.
I've tested this year iPhones and it's always the foliage, herbs or trees that betray a mobile camera. I guess there is too much details to process, you can actually see it in his review.
But you are right, perhaps camera makers are not focused on the same aspect of photography, probably at their loss.
