Both the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max will include Apple's tetraprism Telephoto lens with improved zoom capabilities, Apple analyst...
  • Cuberonix@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m just hoping for a sensor upgrade. I like using the 3x, but it has noticeably less detail than the main camera.

  • mkchampion@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Don’t love that choice. 3x zoom for me and probably a lot of people hits almost the perfect portrait focal length—77mm ff eq. This is as close as any phone gets to 85mm, a very popular choice for portraits. The 0.5x, 1x, 5x combo on the 15PM makes ~2.5-4.9x pictures look awful. It’s the reason I chose a 15 pro over the max.

    Hopefully by the time I’m ready to upgrade again they figure out that a gaping hole from a wide shot to a tight telephoto is pointless for anyone who isn’t just pointing at far away things going ooooh aaaaah zoooooom. Samsung fixes it by having a 3x and 10x.

    And I also hope they fix the shitty minimum focus distance on the main camera. You have to be way too far from an object to require a switch to the 0.5x…quality really suffers unless you’re practically touching the thing you’re photographing. It’s the biggest letdown compared to my old S22+.

    • vmbient@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      is pointless for anyone who isn’t just pointing at far away things going ooooh aaaaah zoooooom.

      That’s like most of the iPhone’s audience. More X’es means more better

  • Resident-Variation21@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I honestly don’t want 5x. I very very rarely shoot further than 3x… and a 5x zoom lense means that 3x zoom picture is going to worse quality.

  • pleachchapel@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My girlfriend has the Samsung Galaxy 23 Ultra, I have the iPhone 15 Pro, & it is absolutely bananas how much better her camera is, especially for night photography. She can take a full-frame photo of the moon & it’s clean, with detail. When I try, it looks like it could be a light bulb or a golf ball.

    Apple has some work to do.

    • DaytonaZ33@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You are getting downvoted because the Samsung is not taking a picture of a moon. It’s taking the picture of a white circle that vaguely resembles the moon and then uses AI algorithms to recreate the moon in the shot. It’s not exactly replacing the moon with a high res image off the internet, but it’s only a few steps away from that.

    • Conchking@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure Samsung ran into some controversy for using AI to fake moon pictures. They essentially see that you are trying to take a picture of the moon and just overlay a moon texture on top of the image.

    • Conchking@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure Samsung ran into some controversy for using AI to fake moon pictures. They essentially see that you are trying to take a picture of the moon and just overlay a moon texture on top of the image.

    • DaytonaZ33@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You are getting downvoted because the Samsung is not taking a picture of a moon. It’s taking the picture of a white circle that vaguely resembles the moon and then uses AI algorithms to recreate the moon in the shot. It’s not exactly replacing the moon with a high res image off the internet, but it’s only a few steps away from that.

  • wipny@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    How different is the 5x optical zoom on the 15 PM vs whatever the 15 Pro has?

    I’m considering the 15 Pro so I can pass down my XS to my mom. The one thing that sucks about the XS is the inability to take low light night photos. I can’t take pictures of the moon or night sky. Zoomed phots look pretty bad too.

    How much better are the 15 Pro cameras in low light? How do the cameras on the Pro vs PM compare? I don’t understand all the jargon with camera lenses and lengths.