Over the past few days a small but interesting corner of the Internet has slowly been consuming its own babies over whether recent Apple event which was ‘shot on iPhone‘ was actually ‘shot on iPhone‘. This is so ridiculous but the argument boils down to whether using top end professional camera tools with a iPhone 15 Pro Max constitutes the title…Sometime you just have to smile at the time people will waste going down a deeper and deeper rabbit hole. The good thing is that as far as Internet rabbit holes are concerned this is one of the more harmless.

So what has this is to do with me? Nothing other than the following images were ‘shot on iPhone‘. Equally, no industrial level equipment was used to capture the image, that is if I don’t count as ‘industrial‘…some days I’m not sure what I count as.

So what is the point of all this you may well ask? Well I have been testing the photographs I can make from the images I have captured using an iPhone 13. These are some of the results. What have I learnt? Firstly, use the Adobe Lightroom camera app – the only way I have found to extract ‘RAW’ images from the 13. Secondly just stick to the prime lenses and don’t touch the zoom. The phone only captures 12 MP images so anything that destroys image quality is to be avoided. The third is do not, I repeat, do not try to create the image on the phone using the Lightroom App. Perhaps if you have young eyes it might be different but for me I need as much real estate as possible to get things the way I want them and even then not always.