I have been running a few tests on my iPhone (this is a fancy way of saying I was messing around with iPhone whilst awaiting the coffee to arrive) and have come up to the very unscientific answer to the problem I have with my iPhone camera is that the camera is fine it is the post production software that Apple has developed is a bit, well in my opinion (your opinion may vary and I respect that), shit. There was a time that I enjoyed the wayward results that the iPhone would produce but this latest iteration just doesn’t cut it for me. What the software appears to be doing is using ‘computer learning’ to make the photograph for you and it would appear, to my eyes at least, to be not making a very good job of things – especially around trees on the land/sky horizon.

What I have done is switch back to using Lightroom on the iPhone as the camera app in there gives you significant leeway to make the photo you want rather than what the computer wants to create and then saves the image file as a .DNG. This means that when you post produce in Lightroom on the Mac all the settings can be reversed or enhanced with no loss of technical quality from the image.

The reason why I stopped using this is that I liked using the shortcut button on the lock screen of the iPhone rather than having to unlock the iPhone and then open the Lightroom app. I know it was only a few seconds but that is me. So I guess I’ll just have put up with this pfaff but I find this annoying (this really is a first world of first world problem!)