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Why is it so impossible for me to take consistently good photos with my 6?
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Yeah, I've got a 4s still that I can use to compare. I know the photos didn't look like this. Better photos is one of the top reasons I upgraded. All the reviews make the camera seem like the best ever. I don't know why I don't see the same results.
EDIT: Plus, I thought this phone had pretty much the best autofocus to date?
photogate?
I've noticed this "tweaked" compression and noise reduction/enhancement since the first few pictures I took with the iPhone 6.
It is absolutely horrible.
I had to carry around my iPhone 5 to grab decent pics at a recent family event.
I believe this is wholly software related and either an iOS update or 3rd party app will resolve this.
I can't wait. This has been an unexpected disappointment.
It is absolutely horrible.
I had to carry around my iPhone 5 to grab decent pics at a recent family event.
I believe this is wholly software related and either an iOS update or 3rd party app will resolve this.
I can't wait. This has been an unexpected disappointment.
You must have cropped them because they are not 8MP size, but they still shouldn't be so pixelated. I wonder if MacRumors upload system is flawed.
here's some pictures i took after work at my apartment. I too see the 'monet' effect on my pictures. disappointed. the 3rd photo where the focus point is the grass and it's still blurry. my truck is the white F150 in the picture and shows how bad the processing is.
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Here's another example.
For Objectivity's sake: I took a picture on my iPad 3 and iPhone 6 of the same object. Both cameras were focused on the same image and the iPhone 6 did a much better job than the iPad 3 (expected). However, the images posted were the same image (a hand drawing) in the background zoomed as much as possible.
The iPhone 6 takes good pictures of the subject usually, but I also care about the entire image. As for some of the comments here. I am not a photographer and I don't expect "stunning" images from a phone, the space requirement just isn't there. HOWEVER, that shouldn't mean we dismiss the entire subject. As technology progresses we should be able to get increasingly better images.
The iPad (5MP) is the left and the iPhone 6 on the right. The iPad was so much clearer.
For Objectivity's sake: I took a picture on my iPad 3 and iPhone 6 of the same object. Both cameras were focused on the same image and the iPhone 6 did a much better job than the iPad 3 (expected). However, the images posted were the same image (a hand drawing) in the background zoomed as much as possible.
The iPhone 6 takes good pictures of the subject usually, but I also care about the entire image. As for some of the comments here. I am not a photographer and I don't expect "stunning" images from a phone, the space requirement just isn't there. HOWEVER, that shouldn't mean we dismiss the entire subject. As technology progresses we should be able to get increasingly better images.
The iPad (5MP) is the left and the iPhone 6 on the right. The iPad was so much clearer.
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Some of the time, the Mac rumors uploads don't show the photos well unfortunately.
I've uploaded where it is very true to what's on my roll and other times where it's not.
It's not my intention to overstate the issue.
Just want to accurately show what I see.
I'm sure others want to do likewise.
I don't use an app to create a link to the photo which
which others do.
As for whether those sample photos on 6+ in the store are taken with an actual 6+, I imagine they are. After all, they would want to show what the device can do.
What a scandal and embarrassment they would face if they showed photos on their store display devices taken with some other, more expensive, professional camera!
These are 6+ photos for sure.
I've posted the issue on the Apple feedback site. Search it (there are links to it in this thread) and post your concern.
Apple will fix it at some point.
I've uploaded where it is very true to what's on my roll and other times where it's not.
It's not my intention to overstate the issue.
Just want to accurately show what I see.
I'm sure others want to do likewise.
I don't use an app to create a link to the photo which
which others do.
As for whether those sample photos on 6+ in the store are taken with an actual 6+, I imagine they are. After all, they would want to show what the device can do.
What a scandal and embarrassment they would face if they showed photos on their store display devices taken with some other, more expensive, professional camera!
These are 6+ photos for sure.
I've posted the issue on the Apple feedback site. Search it (there are links to it in this thread) and post your concern.
Apple will fix it at some point.
Part of me wonders if this isn't Apple trying to achieve a sort of artificial bokeh effect in processing.
Well, I don't know what to make of them. They aren't smudged, but pixelated as if the image was downgraded during upload.
Here is a quick screenshot of your image from my Retina Mac. Look at the branch. It should be smudged, not jagged.
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If you look the picture of my rabbit from before (last post on page 12). Compare it to this older one from my 4S.
Look how you can make out the fur better.
EDIT: I linked to the iPhone 6 image here.
iPhone 6
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iPhone 4S
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Look how you can make out the fur better.
EDIT: I linked to the iPhone 6 image here.
iPhone 6
iPhone 4S
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But that's advertising the front camera. Coming from a front camera that is awesome.
If I'm doing anything wrong in these pics, I'm totally clueless..... There is not much in the way of on board adjustments that can be made with this camera....I know you can long press on the screen that will activate AE/AF lock...
No, it isn't you're mistake as far as I can tell.
Something happened in the upload that degraded the image quality. You're images appear as thumbnails that got blown up vs the actual images from the device.
Thanks Traverse....Bottom line......What can be done on Apple's behalf software wise to correct this???
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What size should it be? And how do I increase the size?