Taking hundreds of photos to find all major issues with new iPhone cameras; Android can help Apple! - PhoneArena

Lack of granular camera power connected phones isn’t conscionable an Apple problem, arsenic Google, for example, besides forces users to adhere to its photography philosophy by omitting a pro mode from the Pixel’s camera (new Pixels don’t adjacent fto you instrumentality full-res photos). On the different hand, good examples are Samsung, Xiaomi, Vivo, OnePlus, Oppo, Huawei (and more), acknowledgment to their adept pro modes/settings and dedicated alternate automatic shooting modes, similar Leica Authentic connected Xiaomi phones, which comes from Xiaomi’s multi-million dollar concern with… Leica.

• iPhone photos are often excessively bright, which leads to a washed-out look and, therefore, mendacious depiction of the country - this is successful nary mode exclusive to nighttime photos (in fact, alternatively the opposite), but it’s mode easier to spot erstwhile taking Night Mode images

• Aggressive HDR tin marque iPhone photos look highly level and lifeless, lacking immoderate “drama”, which “real” cameras often springiness us; technically, this is owed to the information that the iPhone wants to bring item (bright parts of the image) and shadows (the darker parts of the photo) person together, alternatively of trying to abstracted them successful an authentic fashion

• Related to the past constituent and connected the other extremity of the spectrum, the iPhone’s HDR often fails to stack images properly, which tin pb to overblown highlights that are adjacent to intolerable to recover

• Oversharpening - possibly the easiest-to-grasp occupation with the iPhone camera has existed for 2-3 generations now; unless you’re shooting successful RAW/48MP mode (if you person that luxury), trees, branches, and buildings (or thing with well-defined texture) is bound to look mode sharper than it’s expected to

Take "real" photos with your iPhone 12, iPhone 13, iPhone 14! It takes 30 seconds of editing; I snapped hundreds of photos to marque sure

• Dial backmost Brilliance by immoderate 30-60% (strongly recommend)
• Dial down Brightness by immoderate 20-40% (strongly recommend)
• Reduce Noise by immoderate 15-25% (recommended for photos with a batch of textures, which mightiness look over-sharpened)
• Add Vignette for a stylistic look (recommended for a much authentic “camera” look and wherever you request to bring backmost the “drama” successful the scene)

I took hundreds of photos and edited them to look... amended and much authentic (original photos connected the left, edited connected the right)

Apple, delight springiness america a much authentic shooting mode; fto america crook disconnected HDR, and possibly alteration the lens supplier for iPhone 15

As you tin see, the iPhone photograph traits are arsenic promised - precocious brightness, added sharpness, and inconsistent HDR. And arsenic mentioned successful the beginning, this usually leads to “lifeless” photos, which don’t conscionable look different from world but besides often look… worse.

Just similar the editing suggestions I gave towards the beginning, it was precise uncommon that I had to adhd immoderate vibrance to the iPhone's photos. In 95% of the cases, I simply reduced the brightness and brilliance of the photos, which automatically helped reconstruct immoderate of the colour of the photos. 

What’s absorbing is that determination is, successful fact, a smartphone connected the marketplace close present that takes photos beauteous overmuch the mode I similar them oregon the mode I deliberation the iPhone should besides bash it, and this telephone is the

Xiaomi 13 Pro (also, the Xiaomi 12S Ultra which offers an identical experience). This isn’t a Xiaomi 13 Pro story, truthful I won’t beryllium talking excessively overmuch astir it, but the Leica Authentic Mode wrong the camera app of this instrumentality is what separates it from the remainder of the battalion (

Pixel 7,

Galaxy S22, iPhone 14).

What Xiaomi is presently doing is precisely what I ideate the aboriginal of the smartphone camera to beryllium - springiness users a fewer options for photograph styles - which are precise antithetic from filters successful that they aren’t laid retired connected apical of your photograph but are the photograph you take.

New iPhone 15 camera rumors and Photographic Styles - the close direction

But wait, doesn’t the iPhone have… Photographic Styles?

Yes, it does, and yes, they bash help! However, they are acold from making photos look natural. For instance, photographic styles don’t let you to tweak highlights and shadows individually oregon trim the artificial sharpening of photos.

Anyway, the rumors for

iPhone 15 accidental that Apple is astir to power to utilizing newer/better Sony sensors that let for improved HDR - thing that existent iPhones tin often get wrong...

Better hardware and Photographic Styles are surely the close direction, but I deliberation Apple should treble down and marque Photographic Styles the centerpiece of the new-gen iPhone camera, akin to what

Xiaomi, OnePlus, Oppo, and Vivo are doing with their Leica, Zeiss, and Hasselblad partnerships.

Giving radical the enactment to instrumentality vivid oregon much natural/authentic photos could instrumentality the iPhone camera from truly bully to outstanding… for much people. Do you agree? And volition you usage immoderate of the editing tricks I showed disconnected present for your ain photos? Let maine know!