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Post your photos taken with 6s and 6s+

ToddH said:
View attachment 588858 Cortex on the left and standard camera (HDR mode on) on the right. You can definitely tell the difference. But as I mentioned before cortex camera, is not designed for moving objects. That is the only downfall or negative part about that app. So if you're shooting landscape photos or buildings downtown it would be perfect for such things. The cortex image is unprocessed and can stand a little bit of sharpening. But overall it is much cleaner than the standard camera which took this photo at ISO 1250
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thanks for all the samples.
i see what you mean, but i'll need to test this myself. i need a quick camera.
besides, i don't think all that NR stuff really bothers me.
when i had a still camera years ago i always used 1600 ISO film for low light.
i'm a lot more bothered by 2.2 aperture and not 1.8, for example.
 
A quick snap - unedited, straight from the phone.
 

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Divegent said:
Does somebody happen to have the Cortex camera app and could do some shots, especially with the 6s Plus in low light? Thanks
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The "Arnold Schwarzenegger" guy does, hahaha, I'll find his username for you.

I have Camera+ that just got an update, I'll have to try some comparison photos with that (same source, just swapping between camera apps).

Here you go:

https://forums.macrumors.com/members/toddh.459575/

He sounds like he's a photographer too, so probably has good insight.
 
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Awesome shots!

It would be great if you guys mentioned whether you had a 6s or 6s+ though, along with your shots.

Inquiring minds want to know!!! Hahaa
 
spazma7ik said:
These pictures seem to suffer from the smudginess that Apple likes to use for noise reduction, well at least since the iPhone six I believe. Images just don't look that crisp anymore.
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Ugh I know, the first image the road and tree look like an oil painting at 100%. IMO the best iPhone camera was the 4s. 5 and 5s were marginally better and then we get oil paintings on the 6/6s. I'd just really like to know if it is the sensor itself or is it some software garbage they are doing to the image in post. I really hope it is software, but I doubt they are going to change it. I feel like Apples noise reduction algorithm was tuned to be perfect for removing noise from blue skies, but it absolutely sucks on anything with detail (IE..everything else.)
 
ToddH said:
Actually it doesn't. During that exposure a couple of cars drove by and the apps software compensates for that movement by cloning the scene with some kind of processing. Had those cars not passed by you would have a very clean image. I guess this was a poor example I'll have to try to do something else. The color noise that you see in that photograph are from the app itself compensating for the movement in the background.
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Sure it does. I know how the app works, have had it for a while. It can produce decent results but it, like all other camera apps, it does not bypass the phones image processing, which is the issue.Until Apple changes how the processing is done-image compression, noise reduction, we will continue to see this issue.
 
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