13 pro max camera issues for me is HDR and black areas are crushed and looks bad.
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iPhone 13 Pro Smart HDR Missing on iPhone 13 Pro?
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They do:
Take Apple ProRAW photos with your iPhone camera
Take Apple ProRAW photos with the iPhone camera to improve image quality and enhance editing capabilities.
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Have you tried opening the editing window to see how they look? It won’t fix the smudging, but it should show the dynamic range properly. I just change the black point to -1 as a negligible edit so it will be able to be “saved” showing the proper dynamic range.
Exactly what I've been saying, HDR is ****ing horrible. Blown out highlights, crushed shadows and over sharpened to the max.
Who in their right mind thinks the 13 Pro takes good photos?
Depends on the shots you’re taking
Portrait mode you could say it’s the best from any phone out there. Photos of kids, pets are very good. Dark lighting the blacks are crushed and HDR is an issue but for a large amount of photos it is a very good camera but needs an update on the areas it’s lacking
I don’t know man, I’d say 60% of the time the photos come out with blown highlights, crushed shadows and too much sharpness. I think it’s a combination of how photos are being processed with Smart HDR 4, how they are being displayed via the Photos app and how Apple has calibrated the displays.
I was on 15.2 B1 and now in B2 (just came out today) and I don’t know if it’s just placebo effect but it feels like there’s less sharpening going on after a photo is taken. I’ll continue to test this out.
overall my iPhone 6s takes better pictures than my 13 pro
maybe a bit more noise but look more natural, less over processed
maybe a bit more noise but look more natural, less over processed
I came here hoping that the iPhone began to shoot better since the iphone 5. I then switched to Xiaomi Mi 8 pro and was amazed at the pictures of the google camera. Apple is still very far from Google in photo processing. I will wait for the appearance of at least the HDR switch.
13ProMax 15.1
13ProMax 15.1
Can you show a couple of pictures taken with this app? For example a window in a room or something similar.
ProCamera. By Cocologics, right?
P.S. What's the point of using other apps if they use the camera API? They do not improve or enhance the quality of the photograph in any way. All of these apps are just candy wrappers for the standard camera. 🤔
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The stock camera is also so seamless when shooting proraw. With something like Lightroom there’s the extra headache of having to export the photos because for some reason they don’t automatically save them to the camera roll. With Halide, the raw pics are so dark and unprocessed. All the raw photos from halide need processing. As much as I’d like to LARP as a serious photographer, the truth is that people buy iPhones to snap photos and forget about extra steps. I like to live in the moment and not have to think excessively about capturing memories. Halide just creates extra work. It doesn’t even have night mode. I’d take the softer and brighter night photos from the stock app over the dark and grainy Halide pics any day (or rather night, lol).
I'm with you on convenience and ease being one of the main benefits of the iPhone. I'm not too worried about paying a bit more for extra file storage, so I just tap on "ProRaw" in any situation where there's a lot of dynamic range and I think the built-in HDR will struggle. So far, that's worked out well for me.
I also quite like ProCamera and find its controls to be intuitive and easy to use. HDR seems to work better with it on the iPhone 13.
I'm pretty sure Apple will fix this. In the meantime, there are a lot of other options.
Show me pl HDR shots taken with an iPhone camera and ProCamera. I want to buy an application, but I understand what they charge for.
This is a perfect example of bad and invasive iOS photo processing:
Here are 3 shots for you to compare. I've included downloads below, then screenshots of each file in order:
ProRaw:
iPhone 13 HEIC
ProCamera HDR "Natural"
No edits or changes were made to the files.
To my eye, ProCamera HDR is much better than the iPhone processing, but ProRaw is significantly better than both. I opened the file in Lightroom, and all of the shadow and highlight data are preserved. Here's a version with a few simple edits (boosting shadows and whites, reducing blacks, adding a simple contrast point curve, about +5 of clarity):
Processed ProRaw file
For now, I'm shooting in ProRaw almost exclusively. It will eat up my file storage, but at least I'll have photos that I like until Apple fixes this.
ProRaw:
iPhone 13 HEIC
ProCamera HDR "Natural"
No edits or changes were made to the files.
To my eye, ProCamera HDR is much better than the iPhone processing, but ProRaw is significantly better than both. I opened the file in Lightroom, and all of the shadow and highlight data are preserved. Here's a version with a few simple edits (boosting shadows and whites, reducing blacks, adding a simple contrast point curve, about +5 of clarity):
Processed ProRaw file
For now, I'm shooting in ProRaw almost exclusively. It will eat up my file storage, but at least I'll have photos that I like until Apple fixes this.
Halide is another app that is considered really good.
I've used both, and I think I prefer the controls of ProCamera. One thing I like about ProCamera is how easy it is to control exposure and focus separately with a tap/drag. But I do like Halide too.
they don't. from your link:
"On iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro, and iPhone 13 Pro Max, you can use Camera
I'm seeing multiple "Pro Camera" named apps on the App store. Which one is the recommended one?