I know, I know, I don’t like the iPhone camera or rather what the software does with the images captured. But when the iPhone is the only camera you have with you then you have to make the best of a bad job. Actually this make it sound like I was suddenly transported into this strange lightshow unprepared but that wasn’t the case at all. We had planned to see the Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience at All Saints church in Leicester for a couple of days so I could have taken a better camera – but I didn’t (what does that say about me?). So I can’t gripe about the camera but I will anyway – as anyone who might read the above will see.
The show itself was really quite good, although we did baulk at paying an extra fee for the Virtual Reality experience. I have seen a number of Van Gogh’s greatest paintings in real life so I don’t need to see a ‘virtual‘ version.
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I use iPhone camera, wondering what you mean by, what it does with the image?
I have owned a number of versions of the iPhone since I think the iPhone 3 so I have some experience with the images they produce. I have noticed that the images that my current iPhone (13) have very strange colours. As the images are similar, in principle, to a JPEG, this means it is difficult to change these colours in post. This is why I now mostly use the Adobe Lightroom app Camera to capture images as these are saved in a .DNG format – thus allowing the images to be corrected in post.
This being said some of the iPhone functionality is really good. I use the PANO function a lot. In my recent trip to Harry Potter world I used the PANO in VERY poor lighting and the images it created were incredible. In contrast, I used the iPhone in Lathkill Dale recently and the colours were off. This, in my view, meant that much of the power of the images were lost.
In the past I have owned a number of Pro iPhones and so I might have got used to a better quality photographic image compared to the 13 I currently use. From researching/listening to the tech blogs etc. it would seem that I am not alone in noticing problems with iPhone images.
Does this mean there is a problem with the images? Well that is a very subjective subject. For me I think that there are problems but for other people they might think I am wrong. That is fine but to these aging eyes the images produced by the iPhone now are not as good as they were. I know that sounds like an old fart saying ‘things aren’t as good as they were’ and I don’t want you go away with that impression. The iPhone is a brilliant camera its just I don’t like the images it produces as much as I used to. Your mileage may vary and I respect that.
Thanks anyway.
So, are you a Nikon or Cannon Lover? Harry Potter World is Not far From me
I used to use Canon equipment but now I use Sony
Iphone 3 Wow!
I’ve just checked and my first iPhone was a 3G – not quite as venerable as the the iPhone 3
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