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Photographer Austin Mann Tests the iPhone 12 Pro's Camera
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Quite agree, as MTB night ride enthusiast, I often testing bike light and with that settings it would not tell the story how beam pattern would like.
Niche case though, but still sometimes I need 'black crappy dark photo' as comparison to tell how strong is my light at max lumens.
News to me. I often soften (what you call smearing) photos in LR using negative clarity.
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Edgy? Lol. That’s pretty standard 50mm portrait shot.
Really like your stuff, cityscaps. Are you on IG?
Thanks - appreciate it!
I tried IG ten years ago, but it wasn't for me. I am on FB.
You make photographs?
100% agree!
Me too. I love my proper gear, but... I AWAYS have my phone on me.
How are these photos not true representations? They’re taken with the phone, maybe on a tripod (or steady surface) and lightly edited with software, to the point where he mentions he just pressed the auto edit function. Anyone can do it.
What isn’t a true there? The thing here is that he’s a photographer. And like many things, some people can do it better than others.
These are clear demonstrations on what’s possible with this camera. Not a reflection on what the average user could necessarily shoot with one
Nobody wants to see the average Joe’s efforts at photography plastered all over the marketing of new cameras.
It looks like there is SO much room for improvement on that LiDAR portrait shot. Very blurry.
Glad I got the 12 now and not the Pro. Didn't think anyone would benefit much from the LiDAR this year anyway.
Certainly haven't noticed it or needed it on my iPad Pro.
Glad I got the 12 now and not the Pro. Didn't think anyone would benefit much from the LiDAR this year anyway.
Certainly haven't noticed it or needed it on my iPad Pro.
Quite agree that it could be a marketing decision. But there are several possible issues. Size and whether they could fit it in is certainly one. Also whether their supply chains were able to deliver enough to have added it to the Pro.
I'm not referring to a little negative clarity, but rather jacking up the Noise Reduction.
You're going for a specific look which is why I'm not referring to you.
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Speaking as a NON photographer for a minute: the problem is there aren't many quality pocket cameras left these days, due to the transition to much poorer sensor technology. The Sony RX100 series BARELY fits in your pocket, and while its 1" CMOS sensor has less noise and better detail than a phone, I find the iPhone algorithms can actually do better at night than the Sony. (I still get photos better than both with my old S95 CCD pocket camera.) We need either CCD sensors in cameras again or a full frame camera with a fixed zoom lens that fits in your pocket. (Or at least APS-C). I have considered full mirrorless cameras a lot, but I'm smart enough to know how seldom I'd drag one (and its lenses) with me, or how seldom I'd want to be walking around with a big camera around my neck. 
That said, the latest iPhone looks like a decent replacement for a simple point and shoot. But what I dislike about all these new AI algorithms is the result is pure fiction - it may look decent, but it doesn't look like what you actually photographed. We're all moving to a pretend world, like remembering your past in a dream.
That said, the latest iPhone looks like a decent replacement for a simple point and shoot. But what I dislike about all these new AI algorithms is the result is pure fiction - it may look decent, but it doesn't look like what you actually photographed. We're all moving to a pretend world, like remembering your past in a dream.
I do. Total amateur. Mostly photos of my kids.
It's all good. I'm an amateur as well. Keep on shooting!
After looking at some of the photos, especially the one with the woman wearing a fur-lined hood, I thought to myself: but, it's still October. Surely it can't be that cold yet? Surprise, surprise. The area around Glacier National Park, Montana is currently forecasted to receive anywhere between 8-12" of snow, with temperatures barely above freezing during the day and well below that at night. Yikes!
As Richard Avedon once said: “All photos are accurate, none of them is the truth.”
Dark mode permits a 30 second exposure if it detects that the phone is mounted on a tripod or otherwise super stable.
You can. And most of those shots would feature a nice black square. That's the point of most of them. When I compare what these cameras can do in low light with what my nice Panasonic Superzoom (FX-70) from 2005 was capable of (hint: very little in low light), its a miracle.
Any camera can take a photo at noon on a sunny day. But most people don't use cameras that way. I used to take photos of my kids playing basketball in what seemed like a decently lit gym with the aforesaid Panasonic. The pics were so blurry as to be unusable because the lens just could not gather enough light in the time needed to stop the action (<1/30th of second, generally). I had to upgrade to a DSLR to do that. Now, these phones can do what a 2008 DSLR can do with ease and without expensive fast lenses.
There certainly are. Yesterday, a metal fence was perfect for my requirements. But often I use bits of wood - which are readily available in much woodland.
I disagree. If a pro photographer is reviewing consumer gear it's quite obvious the result is not comparable to our own pictures, with or without pro addons. If we average joes had access to all this crap we still wouldn't pull off the same shots.
It's not the gear, it's skill.
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Or a light post, car, tree, newspaper rack, trash can, mailbox, and on and on. Even my knee when I'm sitting on the ground.
Did you read the conditions of the photo you say has so much room for improvement? It’s a fairly epic attempt considering the conditions and the inherent limitations of a phone camera.