Yea, thought I was gonna be missing out in the camera department by not upgrading, but I guess I'm just susceptible to Apple's marketing more than I thought. These are still just phone pictures, and while incrementally better in more extreme circumstances like dark or hdr environments, it's not as jaw dropping as I thought it would be. Portrait mode is still only unusable with smooth isolated objects. Great upgrade for those who get a new phone every 4-5 years though.
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iPhone 12 Pictures taken with the iPhone 12 / 12 Pro
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Between the 11 Pro and 12 Pro the main difference is in the ultra wide lens, as it is slightly sharper, has OIS, less distortion and also got deep fusion and night mode. If that's important for you then it's worth the upgrade. The wide is better but I don't see major differences. Maybe in extreme conditions (very dark, for example) you could tell one from the other. Telephoto seems unchanged.
I think the 12 Pro Max is where we'll see noticeable differences with the larger sensor + sensor shift, but we won't know for sure until the reviews start coming out.
I hear ya. That’s actually a sort of illusion—ie the moon, relative to the field of view captured by a ‘normal’ or wide angle lens, is roughly the size of a dot no matter how big your eyes and brain are making it seem. Those shots of the moon looking huge over a line of buildings or trees or whatever are usually shot with a very long lens which is compressing the distance and showing just a tiny fraction of the whole scene. That said, maybe these new HDR 3 phones do a better job of capturing some detail in the moon rather than just showing a bright, washed out dot... No idea.
I swear if someone posted a photo from most older iPhones and said it was a 12...everyone would still congratulate its quality.
Did you post this from an iPhone 12? The font looks clearer for some reason...
It's been 7 years since I've been there. Can't wait to find my way back. Has to be my favorite place on earth. Spent 6 weeks there doing a journalism class while I was studying photojournalism. Granted I wasn't using an iPhone the first time I went there. It's a great place to refine the craft.
I was waiting for a comedy show in downtown Phoenix last night, at dusk, and figured I’d check out how the camera performed. Pretty awesome seeing this was just about sundown.
Another one from yesterday’s day trip to Boston.
I'm not impressed at all. Seems like they downgrade the camera maybe so that the Pro Max be seen more capable. Pics are not that impressive...
The moon (or the sun) are both the same apparent size (the sun is much bigger obviously, but also much farther away). They'll always be a "dot" on any wide angle picture.
To get it to start to fill a screen you need to have the 35mm equivalent of a lens longer than 600mm (even better: 800mm) - not for your phone in other words. Such a lens costs way more than any phone in itself.
That you experience the moon as visually large in the sky is an optical illusion.
See here for an in depth discussion: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/horizon.html
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Night shot nothing glam. But quite happy where I came from with iPhoneX.
Some sculptures with garden setting
Optical illusion is indeed the right term.
To get a picture of the moon that "works": try to underexpose it: the automated systems typically wash out all the detail there is to be had.
Most pictures of a landscape+moon are composites to be honest. Very, very few are just one picture.
What is somewhat feasible to make is a picture of the moon with an object in front of the moon that gives a black silhouette. Still if you try to get something like an airplane in there: it's *much* faster in photoshop than in real life - I tried a few nights: very, very hard to pull off.
Thank you for the full-resolution uploads.Some sculptures with garden setting
