I think the only use for a dual lens camera would be for 3D imaging. I'd rather have a much bigger iPhone Nipple™ for a proper lens than a useless gimmick.
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Tim Cook Shares First Photos Taken With iPhone 7 Plus
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I think the only use for a dual lens camera would be for 3D imaging. I'd rather have a much bigger iPhone Nipple™ for a proper lens than a useless gimmick.
I got over 100k just in lenses and these pictures look like crap. One of my camera body alone is 30k by itself with no lens. I'll be highly embarrassed to show these pictures off.
What is far better than these? The 4s photos don't hold a candle to the iphone 7 photos for the apples to oranges comparison that this is.
Not the most challenging environment to put a smartphone camera though its paces, but the one thing that stands out is the lack of blown highlights. Many faces I shoot in direct sunlight with 6S+ have horribly blown highlights with some mushy gross correction applied after the fact. I mean, maybe that still happens, they are hardly likely to share those, but the above images give hope they have fixed this problem.
You obviously didn't read his original post.
And you attacked someone for a misspelling and insulted their intelligence after that. You shouldn't talk.
You know, a lot of expensive equipments, allows you the ability to talk about your expensive equipment. That's all. So you compare top of the line camera equipment against a tiny cell phone sensor and lenses? All cell phones will loose. Sheesh.
They look fine, but nothing amazing. These are all taken in optimal conditions. Let's see some full resolution and low light shots! Apple has let their cameras fall very far behind the competition in recent years and I want to see them get that ground back. These shot just don't tell me anything.
The current Samsungs have a faster lens and possibly larger sensors than the iPhone 7. While Apple may still have an edge on image processing, it seems they still have to compensate for inferior hardware. Thinness is really hurting the iPhone camera.
I also worry about the zoom camera. Everything else aside, that sensor will just be getting even less light. I can't help but feel that the iPhone 7 may have been better off using the real estate of both cameras to implement a single one with a larger sensor (more light per pixel, not higher MP)
The current Samsungs have a faster lens and possibly larger sensors than the iPhone 7. While Apple may still have an edge on image processing, it seems they still have to compensate for inferior hardware. Thinness is really hurting the iPhone camera.
I also worry about the zoom camera. Everything else aside, that sensor will just be getting even less light. I can't help but feel that the iPhone 7 may have been better off using the real estate of both cameras to implement a single one with a larger sensor (more light per pixel, not higher MP)
Expensive gear yes, but yet you know nothing about my photography background.
It could also mean he's quite sensitive to quality, probably far more than you or I. I use my super expensive audio equipment as an angle all the time... Because I have the best, and I am trained to know what it does and how it performs over inferior products... It's all about the industry and their experts. I don't think he's an amateur if he's accurate in his gear spec.
The shutter speed is impressive for these action shots and the colors are good, but it's hard to gauge how nice these pics are without seeing the original. I zoomed in a little on an image directly from macrumors and on one from the tweet. It's obviously been downsampled a lot for MR but I bet it was even downsampled for the tweet because they are both surprisingly low res
http://imgur.com/a/WSk3L
That being said, they released a "shot on iPhone" video for Mother's Day and some of the videos or pictures (I forget) looked like garbage. I really don't know why they don't select better pics and vids to brag with
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Agreed. Learning that the "telephoto" lacks OIS and is only f/2.8 was a real bummer. I mean, I would have bought the plus anyway, it's the form factor I prefer, but we always want more don't we? Ideally we'd have got 85mm f/1.8. There would be real bokeh then. Not a lot, but it would be real.
Shut up and take my money Tim
Or some of us also know quality(or the reverse) and have been trained and are experts and can comment also; without owning expensive equipment.
In the near future with the iPhone if you put your finger on the secondary lens..half of features and quality gone!
You don't need dual lens to use that re-autofocus feature, remember that feature Selective Autofocus from the Galaxy S5 that will thought was a gimmick, well now it no longer is or probably never was, the feature takes three photos at same time: Near focus (object), far focus (background), and pan focus (object & background), and since the Samsung Galaxy S7 has the fastest autofocus in camera (including DSRL) will be just as fast as taking a normal shot! heck even Lytro has better solution
I can't wait to see a camera zoom-in comparison between Galaxy S7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, I'm betting on the S7
You don't need dual lens to use that re-autofocus feature, remember that feature Selective Autofocus from the Galaxy S5 that will thought was a gimmick, well now it no longer is or probably never was, the feature takes three photos at same time: Near focus (object), far focus (background), and pan focus (object & background), and since the Samsung Galaxy S7 has the fastest autofocus in camera (including DSRL) will be just as fast as taking a normal shot! heck even Lytro has better solution
I can't wait to see a camera zoom-in comparison between Galaxy S7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, I'm betting on the S7
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I can see the iPhone being used for everyday photos.Some of these shots appear, as some have said, oversaturated and blurry. I do professional shoots and my clients would laugh and walk out if I said 'Today, I'm shooting with....'
I like my iPhone, but I think Apple is trying too much with the Swiss Army approach.
I want excellent photos? I use my good camera and lens. I want a phone that will allow me to read my emails and search the internet from time to time..I use my iPhone.
Oh..and who took the first 'official' photos, since the phone hasn't been delivered to the general public?
They look awesome. I'm going to have fun playing with that camera when my plus arrives. At least he didn't share any blurry pics this time.
Apple should have used the second lens in the way they that Linx company did it. Take two pictures at the same time to create one better image. It would technically double the size of the lens. I was actually surprised that apple's current setup only does zoom and eventually bokeh.
This is unbelievable! I can't believe those photos are real. Seriously, Apple has done something amazing with the 7+.
Those pics do look impressive. The cameras are the only thing tempting me to upgrade from my 6.