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Photographer Tests iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in Iceland, Demos Focus Pixels, Other Camera Improvements
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I'm speculating that there won't be any RAW until the iPhoto replacement occurs and there is an API available to developers. It will happen, but Apple likes to make discrete improvements, stabilize them, then add more features the next iOS update. Certainly the A8 is capable enough.
I still hope that the protruding ring on the lens might accept magnetically attached lenses. That would potentially kill even more of the high end compacts off for a lot of iPhone 6 users.
Really? Judgmental much?
I'm a cinematographer with 65 feature films to my credit...
I own a couple of the industry leading 4k Digital cinema cams
and edit in 4k every day on my Mac Trash Cans...
And I think it's amazing.
It's a phone for God's sake.
It's not even a CPU thing- DSLRS have had crappy CPU's for years and years and they shoot raw. Its just a matter of taking the raw readout of the sensor and giving you that before it gets crapped out and processed to jpeg.
Almost certainly. But still, anyone with experience in digital image editing will tell you that having a high quality image to start with helps tremendously.
The way Phil Schiller described Focus Pixels and how Apple's web site describes it seem totally different. In the keynote he described it as Apple's rebranding of phase detect autofocus, like how they rebranded high-density pixel screens as Retina. Phase detect autofocus is an old but fast and reliable technology found in SLR cameras for decades. It's only been in the past few years that they've been made small enough to integrate into digital sensors.
There is one disadvantage since the phase detect sensors have to be shrunk so small for digital sensors that they have some trouble working in low light. I can't tell from the article if Apple has made significant improvements in this regard, but the autofocus tests look encouraging.
There is one disadvantage since the phase detect sensors have to be shrunk so small for digital sensors that they have some trouble working in low light. I can't tell from the article if Apple has made significant improvements in this regard, but the autofocus tests look encouraging.
In my days using DSLRs with stabilization on a long lens with tripod Nikon said to turn VR off on tripod. Wonder if using a tripod with the 6 plus is actually a problem?
While I have been saying ever since the keynote that I am completely excited about the new camera, I have to say that taking great pictures in Iceland is not that difficult. Iceland is every landscape photographer's dream. 
Here is a shot I took in low light with my 4 and my 5. See the real noise in 4, and the blurry chunky mess in 5?
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Some of those pictures are freaking crisp!!! WOW..
Not to mention the video! He took some really good shots and videos! I am truly excited for the 6 plus now!!!!!
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That's exactly my point. That first picture was definitely NOT shot using an iPhone (or any other smartphone including the Lumina). As I'm sure you can see with your experience, that picture needed high-end sensor and glass.
You are right! Bad Verge! Bad!
(And frankly it makes a lot more sense too as I was surprised the camera would underexpose that far on its own.)
That first pic is beautiful. Man it's amazing to see how far cell phone cameras have come. I'm not just talking Apple, either. These high end smartphones can produce some down right breathtaking photos.
Looks like Apple has pretty much won the smartphone camera race when the pictures are so great that self-proclaimed experts can't believe they were not shot with high-end equipment.
(Not that I see anything specific in the picture that points towards an expensive DSLR and lens. But let's repeat it without adding any arguments a few more times, shall we?)
Yet I have seen soooooo many Fandroids exclaim that the iPhone 6 camera is the same as the iPhone 5 because it has the same amount of megapixels.
Gotta love the people who think they're so savvy act as though megapixel count is the only thing that makes a camera.
They love to drool over numbers on spec sheets.
Gotta love the people who think they're so savvy act as though megapixel count is the only thing that makes a camera.
They love to drool over numbers on spec sheets.