Experiment: Apple iPhone 15 Pro's 28mm and 35mm modes are just digital crops Comments
- dexton
- pEV
Lccy, 25 Sep 2023I wish Apple didn't cripple the standard iPhone with the previous years processor as I pr... moreThe Pro phones have a bigger sensor and will inherently give better image quality, especially in low light situations. Cropping the Pro's 24mm lens (slightly) will likely give same image quality as normal iPhone 15 native 26mm lens.
I would say get a 15 Pro and set it to use 28mm by default. More versatile, less visible distortion than 24mm or 26mm.
I zoom my Samsung S22 beyond 1x zoom in as much as 30-40% cases, shooting mostly in 50MP mode. Up to 1.5x I will always have more details than a 12MP camera on a phone.
Now standard iPhone 15 also has 48MP camera but Pro's have a bigger sensor. So just crop and be happy :)
- Anonymous
- g8$
Lccy, 25 Sep 2023I wish Apple didn't cripple the standard iPhone with the previous years processor as I pr... moreThe A16 still has stronger CPU then SD8G2 if I am not mistaken
- Lccy
- pKE
vrvly, 25 Sep 2023Having Hi res lenses with processing able to get hi res detail at the lvl of normal Bayer, the... moreThe only way you could get the equivalent level is detail as a bayer sensor of equivalent size as the cropped area is through pixel shift multi shot, but that requires a static subject, if there's any movement you lose detail so there is still a strong advantage to get dedicated 2x lens, but it's falling out of favour for longer 5x lenses.
- Lccy
- pKE
I wish Apple didn't cripple the standard iPhone with the previous years processor as I prefer the longer 26mm (vs24mm) lens on the standard iPhone. Unfortunately every phone on the market now uses a very wide lens as the main camera, the pixel 6a uses a 26.7mm lens but it uses a very old sensor, and the 7a has a 24.7mm equivalent lens.
- cgardan
- 8@Z
Maybe a sue let apple to think more about this "7 lenses" marketing
- vrvly
- g5f
Having Hi res lenses with processing able to get hi res detail at the lvl of normal Bayer, they can simulate few 12mp modes or lossless digital zoom. That is, if you are satisfied with 12mp.
This also does not change that you not always have hi res raws on every phone with such a great hdr and detail(or like its very rare), or you don't get it on superwide or super tele, which would made it great for macro and bokeh, besides being able to get more details.
Compared to optical it's way better as you get all in 1 with 1 sensor.
- Average user
- 0xU
Honestly? I don't think anyone should care for this apart from photographers, since for daily use this is quite useless.
- Anton.
- JQ4
Are people surprised why the iPhone came out with some problems? Rest assured that Apple will solve all these problems the way Samsung and maybe Xiaomi would, we are technological, not girls in a girls' park.
- NeonHD
- 6Fi
Stereotypical Apple deception-based marketing.
From the compare slider, I would even say Photoshop's method does a mildly better job at upscaling than the built-in 28mm mode.
- Anonymous
- 0p}
www.phonearena.com/news/Lower-standards-for-A17-Pro-could-be-behind-iPhone-15-Pro-thermal-throttling-issues_id150917
https://wccftech.com/defective-iphone-15-pro-units/
https://www.gizmochina.com/2023/09/24/iphone-15-pro-overheating-due-to-a17-pro-chip/
- Esmejo
- PXu
I can definetly see slightly more detail in the stock photos, but of couse, the more you crop intop the 48mp, the less details it will have, because of the Bayer nature. If the cropes were downscaled to 12mp it would look better.
Not enougth details to be groundbreaking, but enough to not call it just a simple digital crop.
- 0odle-noodle
- Tbx
Anonymous, 25 Sep 2023Still mate 60 series will be far more popular than xiaomi 13, vivo x90 and oppo find x6 series. and be 3x worse than all of them
- Anonymous
- 0p}
yalim, 25 Sep 2023you can do 1.2x, 1.4x or 1.6x manually in every phone out there. all apple did is to add a lab... moreBecause apple was claims these were from " different portions " of imx803 instead of just cutting the photo and upscaling back to original resolution like digital zoom does.
In the end, same crap other do.
- ashrobb
- 8FI
Those few samples look a lot more natural than recent iPhone models. Will wait for the final review but maybe they toned down their over the top processing.
- Anonymous
- 05e
Apple outright lies about what they sell?
That's a first!
Again.
- yalim
- mu4
you can do 1.2x, 1.4x or 1.6x manually in every phone out there. all apple did is to add a labeled toggle to the viewfinder.
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