Apple showcases iPhone 6 photography

[Kaido]

http://www.apple.com/iphone/world-gallery/

Amazing that a smartphone can do that :thumbsup:

 

[PricklyPete]

While the results compare terribly to good DSLR shots, it is amazing having a decent camera available to you at all times. I have gotten some great shots with my phone.

 

[ultimatebob]

I gotta say, the iPhone 6 takes some pretty damn good shots. It's still not as good as my Canon point and shoot, but it's light years better than my old Galaxy S3.

 

[bigi]

Another proof that having a good eye, composition skills, and timing beats all megapixels each and every time.

 

[PricklyPete]

Another proof that having a good eye, composition skills, and timing beats all megapixels each and every time.

This has always been true...way before digital even got going. Someone with talent can take good pictures with a pinhole camera.

 

[Rakehellion]

Another proof that having a good eye, composition skills, and timing beats all megapixels each and every time.

Megapixels? Those pics are like 640x480.

 

[elitejp]

Another proof that having a good eye, composition skills, and timing beats all megapixels each and every time.

exactly, except I would say that this doesnt have anything to do with mp as it does just having a camera with you. Now this may be great advertising for iphone but if you understand cameras and the basic iso, shutter speed and aperture you will also know that it would be hard to find a camera that couldnt take these type of pics. however these are very good pictures.

 

[finbarqs]

great pictures aren't deteremined by the size you can blow them up to, but by the pics themselves! The first shot especially, is can pass up some of my point and shoots... (though you can't mock point and shoots anymore... especially when they use an APS-C sensor!)

 

[LongeCrK]

While I agree that composition and general photographer skill is required for a great shot, and that there are many photographers with outdated gear producing amazing shots (something that happens naturally as you get to know your camera and spend a lot of time practicing), some technical aspects of the iPhone DO make a huge difference. For example its speed and amazing auto-focus can't compare to my iPhone4, and while I believe to be an "okay" amateur photographer, I know that I could do wonders with the new model.

 

[elitejp]

good light and good composition can do wonders for a picture. But that being said my galaxy 4 is killer slow starting up but focuses just fine and high speed shooting isnt great. Of course single shot is fine and thats basically what you have with this webpage, good lighting and single shot, nothing that actually challenges a camera. Just recently there was a stupid article comparing dslr to phones and showing how great the phone pics looked. if you dont understand the difference thats fine but there is a reason why dslrs cost what they do and the lenses cost even more. But that being said given certain conditions a 500 dslr with a 100 dollar lens can produce just as good a pic as a 3000 dollar body and a 3000 dollar lens. it really comes down to light.

 

[paulinavega1]

Hello everyone! I would like to say that Iphone6's camera really can take a lot of good quality pictures like my canon dslr. But i would like to say the camera of iphone5s is pretty good too! Cheers!

 

[Kaido]

While I agree that composition and general photographer skill is required for a great shot, and that there are many photographers with outdated gear producing amazing shots (something that happens naturally as you get to know your camera and spend a lot of time practicing), some technical aspects of the iPhone DO make a huge difference. For example its speed and amazing auto-focus can't compare to my iPhone4, and while I believe to be an "okay" amateur photographer, I know that I could do wonders with the new model.

Yeah, I think there's definitely an over-emphasis on hardware these days. People act like the new Canon 5D Mark 15.3 is the only way you can be a "pro" photographer, as if there's a mythical barrier that specs stamp on you. Yes, in certain areas, certain things are required: medium-format jumbo-megapixel cameras for huge department store fashion prints, for example. But my iPhone has been my primary camera for years now, and they're starting to hold up for poster-sized prints (as rare as I do them) better & better with each new model. The fact is that most of us share our photos online (Flickr, Imgur, Facebook, etc.) where a lot of times people can't tell the different in quality between cameras. Even the video portion is making pretty good strides:

http://fugostudios.com/red-epic-iphone-4s-comparison/

My wife shoots a select few weddings every year; we use a Nikon D90 with Nikkor glass & my Canon T2i with vintage glass (60's-era Zeiss, plus an 11-16mm Tokina as needed) & haven't felt a strong enough need to upgrade to actually go out & purchase the D800 or anything yet. Some high-end photographer from B&H was at one wedding we were shooting & was talking down to me about how he'd never use anything other than full-frame for a wedding because it wasn't professional. I really had to bite my lip to keep him from asking why he wasn't shooting the wedding as he was a good friend of the bride & groom, and they had specifically requested us because they liked my wife's photography style It did feel insulting to have a quasi-pro act like that, but both my wife & I like our workflow, and *we* got the paycheck at the end of the day, so it worked out alright, haha.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Megapixels? Those pics are like 640x480.

Really? I figured they would be much higher res. Pics with my Nexus 4 are 3264x2448 (that seems like an oddball number). It's actually incredible they can pack such a sensor into something that small. Though I wonder if there's some "magic" that goes on to do some pixel guessing and generate more pixels than the sensor actually has.

Still pretty incredible the quality of cell phone pics now though.

 

[Kaido]

Really? I figured they would be much higher res. Pics with my Nexus 4 are 3264x2448 (that seems like an oddball number). It's actually incredible they can pack such a sensor into something that small. Though I wonder if there's some "magic" that goes on to do some pixel guessing and generate more pixels than the sensor actually has.

Still pretty incredible the quality of cell phone pics now though.

I'm kind of curious how they're going to solve the zooming issue without making an actual zoom lens. Either they're going to need a flat glass invention, or they're going to have to up it it to like 100-megapixel sensors & use crop-zooming with some interpolation so it doesn't look like that fractal effect from the Limitless movie. I mean, Nokia already has a 41-megapixel camera out, and the digital zoom is pretty dang usable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9nTCnbZ_v4

 

[phucheneh]

Before I clicked the link, I already knew- 'lemme guess, someone is posting a bunch of outdoor shots in natural light to show good great their phone camera is...'

...yep.

I wonder if Apple actually realizes that any modern phone camera can do the same. And by 'the same,' I mean take pictures that are of acceptable quality assuming an abundance of light and that the pictures will not be shown at anywhere NEAR their actual resolution.

Let's see some 8MP (or 10MP? whatever silly number they're up to) pictures taken indoors. Preferably with moving subjects.

 

[elitejp]

Thats all right I recently saw an article "showing" how phone cameras are better than dslrs

 

[Pocatello]

The best camera is the one you have in your hand, most of the time, it's your cell phone.

 

[elitejp]

absolutely

 

[ControlD]

The best camera is the one you have in your hand, most of the time, it's your cell phone.

Of course. Given the choice of having a phone camera or no camera with me I will opt for the former. At the same time, if I am going somewhere and I know I want to capture the moment I am taking my DSLR and not relying on a crappy phone camera to get the job done.

 

[Kaido]

Before I clicked the link, I already knew- 'lemme guess, someone is posting a bunch of outdoor shots in natural light to show good great their phone camera is...'

...yep.

I wonder if Apple actually realizes that any modern phone camera can do the same. And by 'the same,' I mean take pictures that are of acceptable quality assuming an abundance of light and that the pictures will not be shown at anywhere NEAR their actual resolution.

Let's see some 8MP (or 10MP? whatever silly number they're up to) pictures taken indoors. Preferably with moving subjects.

Nailed it! But to be fair, my dSLR still isn't great in indoor low-light situations either

 

[ControlD]

Nailed it! But to be fair, my dSLR still isn't great in indoor low-light situations either

But that's where the "it isn't the camera, it's the photographer" argument can fall down. With a modern DSLR body you can get indoor low-light shots that you never would have been able to get before. I just upgraded my DLSR body from a model that was introduced in 2000. The advances in ISO performance in those 13 years is unbelievable. With a fast lens I can get more than acceptable available light shots indoors, which is something I knew better than to even attempt with my old equipment. That is also something I know better than to try with a phone camera.