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Tim Cook Shares First Photos Taken With iPhone 7 Plus
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You clearly don't know much stuff about photography and that is OK!
The fact that people are even discussing if these pictures look like DSLR pictures or not, tells a lot. Phil Schiller himself, on stage, said "we're not saying you should go out and sell your DSLR". Of course they don't match up with DSLR's, and complaining that they don't is BS. But for a point-and-shoot, they are great.
Yeah, let's say how bad the photos are instead of just appreciating the fact that the cameras in the phones are quite possibly some of the best ever put into a phone. Nope, let's just focus on the negative and constantly spew garbage about how terrible Apple and their products are. This is ridiculous, and I'm fed up with the negativity.
Dumpster fire is a great way to put it. Most of the comments on MR have been literal sewage for the last few months, and the anti-Apple circlejerk here is getting extremely annoying. Nothing Apple does is good. They're damned if they do, damned if they don't in every situation. Why are half these people on an Apple centric FAN SITE if they just want to take a massive dump on everything Apple?
I'm pretty well done with this. The anti-Apple crowd is getting in my nerves. To some of the people on here: Stop being so negative about everything and just, for once, look at the positive without having to bring your ridiculous pessimism and anti-Apple circlejerk with you. No one appreciates your negativity, and you can leave if you have nothing constructive to say.
I have never, ever, seen a good photographer point to the price of his gear as even part of an argument that his/her pictures are good. Any half-decent photographer will outperform the iPhone 7 using a 500$ DSLR.
Agree with you, like the coverage, the forums are always a dumpster fire and it's always the same people with the same always negative and BS attitude posting from their Windows PCs full of fans blowing from the heat of their AMD CPUs.
Just add MacRumors RSS to your RSS reader (e.g. Apple News) and you'll be fine. No ads too.
That would be "you're". Push those limits.
(You've got to be flawless if you're going to nitpick grammar!)
Maybe but…….
Think of it like this, you could have ultrasound hearing that surpasses that of a bat but if the equipment used to capture and reproduce that sound for you to sample didn’t have the dynamic range output or sensitivity to pick up or output it in the first place all of your abilites mean nothing.
You can’t comment on how deep the bass is using a tweeter.
Neverthless they look like good photos to me.
I think that describes most consumers. Traditional digital cameras don't seem to be "a thing" anymore. It's so much easier to take photos on the smartphone you have with you almost every minute of the day... and then share them from that same device. No messing with files... no messing with computers. Very convenient.
I was at a dance competition over the weekend. I was shooting photos for the event... Canon 70D, kit lens, external flash.
My photos looked great. Well-lit, good color, shot in RAW then processed in Lightroom.
But moms and dads were using smartphones to capture memories. Their photos were poorly lit, kinda hazy, terrible color... but it was convenient. So I guess it was better than nothing.
I saw two DSLRs and NO point-n-shoots at the event. Times have changed.
I welcome smartphone cameras getting better because I don't think consumers are ever going back to digital cameras.
As an example... my DSLR image is on the left... a smartphone image is on the right:
BTW... the only adjustments I made in Lightroom was to drop the black levels a bit. No other color correction was done.
The smartphone photo was taken directly from Facebook and was uploaded straight from the phone.
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What's so special?
It's even poor, with no detail in the shaded side.
Exactly. How on earth are they supposed to look like DSLR cameras that cost at least twice the cost of the iPhone for the body only and even more then that for a decent lens and are 10 to 20 times the size of an iPhone? These smartphone cameras are great for social networks media consumption and they are not intended for professional use. However, the consumer cameras (like point and shoot) are easily replaced by smartphone cameras.
Folks, calm down eh?
It's going to be a great new upgrade that everyone from consumers, photo enthusiasts and full on pros will make great use of on their own terms.
Anyone who picks this apart, dissects it to the point of no return is not really interested in what these devices are all about, now are they....
Signing off until my 7+ gets here........
It's going to be a great new upgrade that everyone from consumers, photo enthusiasts and full on pros will make great use of on their own terms.
Anyone who picks this apart, dissects it to the point of no return is not really interested in what these devices are all about, now are they....
Signing off until my 7+ gets here........
Lmao this forum is hilarious. You think the general public is going to say "man these photos are crap. the flux capacitor is just not up to snuff."
Get off of your high horses and appreciate a cell phone's camera. The photos are by no means BAD, stop being so judgmental.
Apple isn't catering to the minority of people that will critique the camera tooth and nail.
Get off of your high horses and appreciate a cell phone's camera. The photos are by no means BAD, stop being so judgmental.
Apple isn't catering to the minority of people that will critique the camera tooth and nail.
Why is everyone being so rude and hostile? Why are you attacking the camera and people who think the pics look good? If you don't like it, don't buy the phone and move on.
And stop ignoring the multiple posts that said to look at the photos on SI.com. Whoever published the article on MR did an absolutely terrible compression job on the photos. They look bad, but the ones on SI look amazing.
And stop ignoring the multiple posts that said to look at the photos on SI.com. Whoever published the article on MR did an absolutely terrible compression job on the photos. They look bad, but the ones on SI look amazing.
I often create great, high contrast shots in midday sun, takes some walking around and sometimes crouching, or climbing to get the correct shadows
Were you photographing the sky, the asphalt, the building, the side street, the top of the car in the forefront? The rule of thirds exists for a reason hey.
Only interesting thing was the sky, where obvious saturation actually works, all other colors except greens are over saturated with little details (washed up) or in darkness, neither really interesting.
A zoom here (like in the Iphone 7+) would have helped you to focus on a closer view from this same position (you could also have moved to the center of the intersection and gotten a similar, if more dangerous, shot).
