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iPhone 11 Pictures Taken by iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro

iPhone 11 Pro. Only had it today so not had time to take many pics yet...
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alee said:
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I've played around with wide angle quite a bit and my wide shots suffer from the same problem you're showing in this picture . Top left corner - Look at the leaves in that area, and the tree itself. As you go further out to the sides, the image quality gets worse.

Can you try taking the same photo but using pano? Except instead of a full pano, just pano the same width as the wide angle. I've done this and had better results than the wide angle, although the image is slightly different.

BTW, I get the convenience of the wide angle, but most, if not all of the wide angle shots are suffering from the same blurry imagery on the corners/outer sides of the photo.
 
Iphone5preorder said:
I've played around with wide angle quite a bit and my wide shots suffer from the same problem you're showing in this picture . Top left corner - Look at the leaves in that area, and the tree itself. As you go further out to the sides, the image quality gets worse.

Can you try taking the same photo but using pano? Except instead of a full pano, just pano the same width as the wide angle. I've done this and had better results than the wide angle, although the image is slightly different.

BTW, I get the convenience of the wide angle, but most, if not all of the wide angle shots are suffering from the same blurry imagery on the corners/outer sides of the photo.
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I’m pretty sure that’s just the nature of ultrawide lenses. There is going to be distortion on the edges.

someone feel free to correct me if im wrong.
 
Knowimagination said:
I’m pretty sure that’s just the nature of ultrawide lenses. There is going to be distortion on the edges.

someone feel free to correct me if im wrong.
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Ah, could be. But (only if you have time and energy :) ), if you took the same shot using pano and just extend the pano to the same width as the wide angle shot, you shouldn't see that blurry'ness.

It's one thing I noticed on Saturday when I did my hike. I realized... wait a sec, I've been doing shorter width pano shots for years so the wide angle thing didn't really solve anything for me, other than it's quicker to take a wide angle shot than pano.
 
Iphone5preorder said:
I've played around with wide angle quite a bit and my wide shots suffer from the same problem you're showing in this picture . Top left corner - Look at the leaves in that area, and the tree itself. As you go further out to the sides, the image quality gets worse.
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This is pretty typical of low cost wides unfortunately - see it a lot with older DSLR lenses as well. Not too surprising. You typically will not find edge to edge sharpness on wides unless you're spending really big dollars, and even then, you'll still get it.
 
alee said:
This is pretty typical of low cost wides unfortunately - see it a lot with older DSLR lenses as well. Not too surprising. You typically will not find edge to edge sharpness on wides unless you're spending really big dollars, and even then, you'll still get it.
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Thanks for that info. Can you help me understand why we should ever use wide angle when pano gives you the flexibility to control the width of the shot while maintaining quality?
 
The perspective of a pano shot is quite a bit different than the ultrawide to my eye.
Not to mention pano doesn’t work great with subjects who may move.
 
The thing I noticed in the test shots I just took was that the pano can get you the width similar to the ultrawide but not the extended range vertically the the ultrawide provides.

Pano also doesn’t offer you the same kind of perspective shots that can be achieved with the ultrawide. I’m sure it will get better next year when they add night mode and open up the f stop a little more.
 
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Disclaimer: this is legal in Canada, for photographic purposes only 😉 admin can delete if they feel it’s inappropriate.

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A spoiler with 'NSFW' would have been nice ;)
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Knowimagination said:
The thing I noticed in the test shots I just took was that the pano can get you the width similar to the ultrawide but not the extended range vertically the the ultrawide provides.

Pano also doesn’t offer you the same kind of perspective shots that can be achieved with the ultrawide. I’m sure it will get better next year when they add night mode and open up the f stop a little more.
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Cool, thanks. I'm at the office so I can't do the comparison right now, otherwise I would.
 
Iphone5preorder said:
Thanks for that info. Can you help me understand why we should ever use wide angle when pano gives you the flexibility to control the width of the shot while maintaining quality?
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Movement is the biggest reason you shouldn't. Stitching artifacts and uneven sweeping motions will also compromise sharpness. Panos can be useful, but perspective and framing inevitably requires a lot more time and attention to crop.

My advice: if you're shooting wide, the extra frame is for perspective and contrast. If you really need edge to edge sharpness, wides are not the right solution. You deal with all sorts of issues including odd geometry issues if the camera isn't perfectly level. It's really hard to shoot ultra-wide.
 
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