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iPhone 12 Pictures taken with the iPhone 12 / 12 Pro
- Thread starter Kent viggo
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I would appreciate if someone could upload a few samples in following cases
Night mode
-As far as I understood iPhone 11 pro used cropped wide camera for night mode. Could someone upload full iPhone 12 pro telephoto night mode samples with exif data to verify if this has changed?
Lightroom raw samples
-It would be interesting to see how iPhone 12 and 12 pro do without computational photography on ultra-wide, wide and tele. Therefore full-size dng/original raw files taken with Lightroom app would be interesting to see for further analysis.
edit: this forum seems to loose all the exif data and compress the images. If possible could you upload photos somewhere else?
Night mode
-As far as I understood iPhone 11 pro used cropped wide camera for night mode. Could someone upload full iPhone 12 pro telephoto night mode samples with exif data to verify if this has changed?
Lightroom raw samples
-It would be interesting to see how iPhone 12 and 12 pro do without computational photography on ultra-wide, wide and tele. Therefore full-size dng/original raw files taken with Lightroom app would be interesting to see for further analysis.
edit: this forum seems to loose all the exif data and compress the images. If possible could you upload photos somewhere else?
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If someone doesn’t beat me to it, I’ll post these samples tonight once my phone has arrived. As a photo nerd myself, I’m curious to see how this one will perform in lowlight.
Just wait for owners to edit them in lightroom, snapseed or any other video editor. pretty sure they dont look as advertised! ??????
Great photo - the doggo looks super chill!![11ae90d8125f28449727727ba6b7182c.jpg]()
Wow! Great photo!. I haven't decided if I want to order a Pro Max yet or keep my Pixel 4xl. One thing IS certain, if I DO order the Pro Max... the first photo will be of my dog (not my ingrate kids).Portrait mode, indoors...
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I can see Deep Fusion hard at work increasing sharpness around the fur of the dog
Here are a few of my yard with 1x, 2x, wide angle, and of my dog normal and portrait. All I can say is the color is wow at least in the screen.
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The shot on the left is taken with the 12 pro. The shot on the right with the iPhone 8.
After working on the picture from the 8 a little bit, I can almost say that it manages to look better than the image straight out of the 12 pro. When editing the photo from the 12 pro its almost hard to add any more sharpening because it has already been processed heavily in the iphone.
This is the picture from the 8 after having undergone some sharpening in photoshop. Almost looks "cleaner" than the 12 pro.
In the next shot the difference becomes a big bigger, and thanks for that. No processing done on these.
12 pro on the left. iPhone 8 on the right
12 Pro on the left. iPhone 8 on the right.
12 Pro on the left. iPhone 8 on the right
There goes the best cameras on any phone... Ever... ?
12 Pro on the left. iPhone 8 on the right.
12 Pro on the left. Iphone 8 on the right.
In all honestly? From this little outing with my 12 pro im a little bit dissapointed. Im a photographer and I use a D750 which has tremendous quality. Im also a bit naive, and an eternal optimist, and was really expenting to have my mind blown from a tremendous increase in quality in the 12 pro.
This has so far not happened.
The increases in photo quality are mostly computational, that means the hardware is more or less unchanged. Yes, the lenses have one extra element, but it doesnt really add that much.
A computational approach to photography has a tendency to be a bit.. well... too computational. Its simply not good enough at correcty determinig how to process the image.
The HDR images ive taken so far feels overprocessed, and out of my control. The shadows are a bit too strongly pushed towards the middle, and the same goes for the highlights. See the halos around edges on the shots from the 12 pro? Especially in the leaves of the trees. Its simply processed very heavily.
For an average user I bet this saves time, and it gets you a picture that looks well exposed and "worked" with. But for someone who is very detail oriented and into photography the results can feel a bit tacky and cheap.
Perhaps the pro raw feature will remedy this and give us a little bit more control over the strenght of the procssing of the image, im optimistic towards that.
Ohh well, its naive to think that where will be MASSIVE improvements in photo quality from an image sensor the size of half a stamp.
The 12 pro is good, by all means its a great phone with a great camera. But dont upgrade from an 11 pro for the camera alone!
The Pro Max will be better, for sure, but not untill the sensor of the camera increases and the lens elements gets even bigger will we see a truley big jump in quality from the images from an iPhone.
Ok rant over, thanks for reading. Ill just post pictures from now and let them speak for themselves
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And a 4K video shot in 30 FPS. I’m quite surprised at the stabilization. The first is the 11 Pro Max from yesterday evening. The second is the 12 Pro was now.
the color seems a bit off but it got cloudy right as I started.
I don’t fully know how all the camera settings work yet in portrait mode so I have to get used to it. This is a photo of my new guy, Quill.
I just don’t understand why you are here. Multiple threads and posts all bashing the new phone. It almost seems like a jealousy thing? Are you this hell bent on comparing an iPhone to an android phone? Let people enjoy what they have and leave it be. No reason to compare apples to apples, they all do the same thing pretty much the same way. Let it go already.
New iPhone 12 pro is terrible at photos compared to the 11 pro I am a photographer using canon 5d mark IV and not impressed night mode outside on front facing camera is bad not impressed
Thanks for all the samples! Could someone check whether the nightmode in 12 pro using telephoto crops the wide sensor or actually used the telephoto? Information should be in exif data of the picture.
Hey, what type of dog is that? We have a rescue dog that looks just like him/her and the rescue group couldn't give us any detail on the breed or mix.