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So the camera is flawed? [purple halo/haze] [merged]
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You were hold it wrong. Look at this lovely photo taken by iPhone 4S.
^^^ yes, it seems infrequent with the 4S, and more with the 5's from what I've seen.
Probably have to do with the coatings on the lens (later 4S's - maybe they changed the lens coating? Or left it out...) and now with the 5 the Sapphire cover in addition.
User's woes are a third party accessories' opportunity...
Probably have to do with the coatings on the lens (later 4S's - maybe they changed the lens coating? Or left it out...) and now with the 5 the Sapphire cover in addition.
User's woes are a third party accessories' opportunity...
Signed up just to address this issue
It isn't just flare. I'm a photographer. I use my iPhone camera quite a bit. I'm getting purple 'ghosts' where there is absolutely no possibility of flare. Not in all images. It's a serious problem. Of course there is purple fringing on out of focus areas like leaves and it is quite bad but that's what you get with cheap digital cameras. But the purple blobs in well lit photos is totally unacceptable. This is my fourth iPhone and none of the previous ones did anything like this.
It isn't just flare. I'm a photographer. I use my iPhone camera quite a bit. I'm getting purple 'ghosts' where there is absolutely no possibility of flare. Not in all images. It's a serious problem. Of course there is purple fringing on out of focus areas like leaves and it is quite bad but that's what you get with cheap digital cameras. But the purple blobs in well lit photos is totally unacceptable. This is my fourth iPhone and none of the previous ones did anything like this.
It isn't just flare. I'm a photographer. I use my iPhone camera quite a bit. I'm getting purple 'ghosts' where there is absolutely no possibility of flare. Not in all images. It's a serious problem. Of course there is purple fringing on out of focus areas like leaves and it is quite bad but that's what you get with cheap digital cameras. But the purple blobs in well lit photos is totally unacceptable. This is my fourth iPhone and none of the previous ones did anything like this.
I just want to know what Apple is going to do. I'm not, unlike all the tech sites going to take the word of a single, front line support worker with misc engineers as an official statement from Apple. I still have some hope on this one.
Are you even paying ANY attention to what people are saying here? I took more than 400 photos with my 4S not a SINGLE one of them has a purple flare. I have less then 20 photos with my iPhone 5 and a little less than HALF already have the flare.
So please, give it a rest. This is an actual problem and people dismissing it when it DIDNT happen like this before is not helping. Yes, if you purposely tried to get it to happen with the 4S you could, to a degree but it's damn hard to avoid with the 5.
Whatever is wrong is not even consistent, some are worse than others.
If you just take an extra second to frame the shot correctly, you won't have the issue. I've just gone through all of my iPhone photos from the 3GS, 4, 4S, and 5, and have found a total of 3 that have the purple flare. 1 was from the 3GS, 1 from the 4S, and 1 from the 5.
In a perfect world, no lens would suffer from lens flare, but that's not how it is. Doesn't matter if the flare is purple or white or orange (which is how it appeared in some of my iP4 photos), it's undesirable (for most of us). Eliminate it from your photos before you shoot them.
In a perfect world, no lens would suffer from lens flare, but that's not how it is. Doesn't matter if the flare is purple or white or orange (which is how it appeared in some of my iP4 photos), it's undesirable (for most of us). Eliminate it from your photos before you shoot them.
I took a bunch of photos today and had to purposefully take one with the purple flare
But then I learned to take nice pictures when I was 12
It's not a 0.01 mm. I took a test of the number of degrees that the phone is subject to purple ghosting and it is a signficant tilt. In order to avoid the purple flare, you could miss out on a significant portion of a picture.
The ****ing question is, IF YOU SEE THE FLARE, why would you make the picture anyway that seems so pointless. I know it's not 0.01 mm but it can't be enough for you to say it's taking alot of effort.
Well given the recent officially posted support forum article we're being left to twist in the wind on this one. Perhaps it will get fixed in a silent hardware update but who is to say and how would we know anyway.
The only way this is going to get anywhere is if we do not let up on it.
The only way this is going to get anywhere is if we do not let up on it.
I've been sitting testing the 5 & 4S side by side. I've been surprised too see the purple fringe on a couple of occasions where the 4S doesn't bat an eyelid.
The first photo is, yes, of a pair of tights but at the bottom of the shot its got a purple fringe. Below it wasn't a light source but a creamy / grey top my wife was wearing.
Hmm, that's the only photo I seem to be able to upload from the iPad. It wipes the previous one out.
Photo 2 would have been same shot lower slightly to show top.
Photo 3 & 4 where of the quilt with an iPad in the bottom of the frame. On the 4S there is a white / blueish fringe, on the 5 a purple fringe.
[Edit] interestingly it's much more pronounced on the screen of the 5 than the iPad (3). More visible then when viewing the attachment full screen / squeeze zoomed in. Need to workout where to upload other photos too.
The first photo is, yes, of a pair of tights but at the bottom of the shot its got a purple fringe. Below it wasn't a light source but a creamy / grey top my wife was wearing.
Hmm, that's the only photo I seem to be able to upload from the iPad. It wipes the previous one out.
Photo 2 would have been same shot lower slightly to show top.
Photo 3 & 4 where of the quilt with an iPad in the bottom of the frame. On the 4S there is a white / blueish fringe, on the 5 a purple fringe.
[Edit] interestingly it's much more pronounced on the screen of the 5 than the iPad (3). More visible then when viewing the attachment full screen / squeeze zoomed in. Need to workout where to upload other photos too.
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how about another picture and more towards the center and higher up north
...... clothing is optional and helps reduce purple flares 
You probably should learn how to take pictures. I have examples of purple flair from my 4S. I have some from my Nikon D300 too. This is a feature of camera optics that is exacerbated by the ultra small lens and sensor combination in the iPhone camera. Simple as that.