iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Leap

Re:iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Leap by majormajor on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @03:58PM (#33426639)

Mine don't (iPhone 13 Pro Max, Fuji XT-2 and various lenses). They do in daylight, sure, but things like sunrise/sunset or unusual colors throw them off like crazy.

Textures can also throw them off - "amplification" of the texture effect, almost.

They also suffer a bit zoomed in.

The post-processing fixes a lot of problems of older phone cameras but it has its limits.

On good camera hardware there's very little that all that post-processing would add outside of extreme-high-ISO-noise, IMO. Which - would it be nice? Sure. But you can find software and stack exposures manually and such for those situations too.

And a lot of the other smart stuff gets fooled too easily.

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Re:iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Leap by dylan604 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @04:39PM (#33427169)

I hate when you get one of those amazing sunsets where the whole sky changes color, but the phone auto-correct removes/corrects the color tone.

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Re:iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Leap by qbasic_forever on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:18PM (#33427615)

You can shoot in raw on iphones now to prevent this or fix it later.

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Re:iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Leap by dylan604 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:38PM (#33427903)

Thanks, but now doesn't do me any good then

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Re:iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Leap by bee_rider on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:31AM (#33431736)

The sun will come up tomorrow, there was a whole song about it.

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Re:iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Leap by majormajor on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:59PM (#33429602)

Capturing raw on iPhone in a low-light situation shows you just how far the sensors have to come if you aren't throwing the whole bag of software magic at it, in my experience.

It's useful for cases of "you're noise reduction is fucking with my texture" in decent lighting or similar, but in lower light I haven't found it to be a worthwhile tradeoff.

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Re:iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Leap by kalleboo on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @04:00AM (#33432536)

On recent iPhones Apple has added "ProRAW" which retains a lot of the magic processing without losing the ability to make a lot of adjustments you'd do on RAW photos like white balance correction.

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Re:iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Leap by ISL on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:36AM (#33431755)

Turn off auto white balance and set it to "daylight", problem solved.

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Re:iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Leap by sys32768 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @04:02PM (#33426696)

This is true. I should have added "in good light".

The DSLR images also retain much more detail in cropping.

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Re:iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Leap by ghaff on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @04:49PM (#33427291)

And even moderate optical telephoto lenses are pretty powerful tools as well—especially in poorer light.

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Re:iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Leap by bbgm on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @08:28PM (#33429871)

I used to use a phone as my backup camera when I was out doing bird photography. After a while I gave up. In variable light and high dynamic range conditions phones just don’t hold up (they do a better job with video). If you’re taking snapshots, nothing better than a phone.

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