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Why is it so impossible for me to take consistently good photos with my 6?

Just like others in this thread i am having the same issues. The moet effect on 95% of my pics, video looks grainy and the slo-mo functions are unusable. I went through support who just got me to do a restore through itunes...blah blah. Like i suspected in made no difference at all to the problem since it could be ios 8 related. My wife's new iphone 6 turned up yesterday and has exactly the same problem. Apple have agreed to replace both handsets so i will report back to tell you all if this problem goes away with a new unit. To me it feels software related as its happening to both front and rear cameras.
 
So here are some shots I took with my iPhone6 at night. When ever I take night shots with lights around I get these lines. Is it normal???? Because when ever I take them with my wife's iPhone 6 she does not have these glair lines.
 

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maik005 said:
Hey,

maybe your lens is a bit dirty?
Had the same problem. Just clean the lens and it will be ok. :)
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I tired swiping it with a fiber cloth and it looks clean to me but I still no difference.

Do you think its normal? Or should I take it to the geniuse bar at the Apple Store?
 
Here is another photo I tried to take indoors with light and still the glare is there.
 

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9to5Slavery said:
Any other better apps that doesn't have so much noise like Cortex?
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You can use any app in which you can manually adjust shutter speed, ISO etc.

If you're trying to take a picture of anything that's not moving, you can easily adjust shutter speed to 1/8 or 1/4 s (or to 1/2 s with the 6 Plus, due to optical image stabilization) and lower the ISO to reduce noise.
 
barneytolsta said:
Just like others in this thread i am having the same issues. The moet effect on 95% of my pics, video looks grainy and the slo-mo functions are unusable. I went through support who just got me to do a restore through itunes...blah blah. Like i suspected in made no difference at all to the problem since it could be ios 8 related. My wife's new iphone 6 turned up yesterday and has exactly the same problem. Apple have agreed to replace both handsets so i will report back to tell you all if this problem goes away with a new unit. To me it feels software related as its happening to both front and rear cameras.
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Well i just got my replacement iPhone 6 and surprise surprise the issue is still there. Phoned up applecare and they have assigned me to a senior adviser that's going to be my contact till this is resolved. The replacement i received serial number was very close to my original phone i noticed. Applecare guy is going to send me out another replacement from a new batch and is sending one out to me. The wife's replacement should be here mid next week as well. I have his direct number and email address now so i am going to send examples and also the link to this forum. I have to say he was really good and listened to all i said and genuinely whats this resolved for me. I would like it resolved for us all. I have a feeling this wont happen till IOS 8.* in the future. If you want me to tell him anything else then please get in touch with me.
 
iPhone 6 camera is atrocious

I have been an amateur DSLR photographer for five years, and I noticed Immediately (literally within the first shots taken) that something was "off" about the images the iPhone 6 produces. I compared it with the 4S that I "upgraded" from, and while the 6 certainly produces cleaner images, I frequently noticed that the 4S retained better fine detail such as text on a distant sign or details on a person's face. I had to replace my 6 within the first week due to a dead pixel, and the replacement phone has the exact same issue.

This happens in both good and poor lighting. Night photos have fine detail completely wiped out, in my mind completely unusable. In every part of the image details get "smudged" out.

I eagerly waited nearly three years for a much improved iPhone camera, and I feel completely and utterly let down. It's at the point where I am not taking pictures in situations where I normally would because I'm so unhappy with how the images look.

I have only read a few threads mentioning this "picasso" issue (and how it's likely related to the software processing and not hardware) and on a TINY minority of review sites - why is a bigger deal not being made of this? Do people not notice, or do they just not care?
 
I just received the 6 Plus after using the 4S for the last three years. I wasn't expecting dslr quality images. But I will say, that in low light situations, the iPhone isn't up to the task. Really Apple ? Now, in good light, the camera is great - for a cell phone camera. Good quality images, sharp, good color and white balance. I'm just disappointed in the low light performance. Other than that, this iPhone is a worthy upgrade.

Good light:

 
No, I'm disappointed. I'm also noticing the image sizes coming off this phone are quite small (1.2 to 1.7 MP). Video quality is great and photo quality is great if you view on the device. The minute I load them on my rMBP I see over smudge effects.

I'm thinking of picking up a DSLR
 
I debunked the idea that the quality issues are coming from too much compression earlier in this thread. A survey I made of 500 shots taken with several different generations of iPhones showed that there was no real difference in average file size between the phones. That's not to say that if you put the phones side by side they will always take the same size photos -- they do appear to use different software processing, etc. But it's definitely not the case that they're just overly compressing them for cloud storage purposes, as some had guessed.
 
mightyjabba said:
I debunked the idea that the quality issues are coming from too much compression earlier in this thread. A survey I made of 500 shots taken with several different generations of iPhones showed that there was no real difference in average file size between the phones. That's not to say that if you put the phones side by side they will always take the same size photos -- they do appear to use different software processing, etc. But it's definitely not the case that they're just overly compressing them for cloud storage purposes, as some had guessed.
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I do believe that's what you found, but that's not the case for me. I had an iPhone 4S and then an iPhone 6. While many shots are relatively the same size, some of the best shots I got with my 4S were 2.9 MB. I almost never get above 1.7MB on my 6.
 
Look at the tree in the background. This is an actual shot right off my iPhone 6.
 

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Looks like this thread is dead, any more updates on this issue? I'm currently on iOS 8.2 Beta 3 and honestly it looks as though the noise reduction has been turned down a bit, maybe it's just my imagination but I'd like to see what other people are seeing if you're on iOS 8.2 Beta 3 as well.
 
What AppleCare have said....

So after two replacement units being sent to me both with the same issue, my applecare contact just admitted on the phone that that's just the performance of the camera. Unless software fixes this we are stuck with it. Key to this is everyone to feedback to apple about this issue so they cant ignore it as a small percentage of people.
 
munkydust said:
Here's another one I took and it looks fine. I think there are just certain lighting situations that the phone fails miserably at. Not sure what I can do to take better pictures in those situations (I have other "lower light" photos where things get smudgy as well). I'm not convinced it is anything to do with my phone in particular.

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By the way, you can drag either of these photos to your address bar to see original size.
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Turn of the auto HDR, u only Need to use that in low light situation that's why the picture of the dolls look better that the one out side.
 
Something's gotta give when a phone is made the thinnest yet. Here, we see that the camera is bumping up against tolerances imposed by the phone's form factor. It's the visual equivalent of tinny sounding speakers in accordance to how thin our TV's have gotten.
 
01silver4 said:
Turn of the auto HDR, u only Need to use that in low light situation that's why the picture of the dolls look better that the one out side.
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HDR is completely useless in low light situations. It's designed to be used in scenes where you have very bright highlights and very dark shadows. It takes three photos - one at normal exposure, one underexposed (for the highlights) and one overexposed (for the shadows), then blends them together.
 
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