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14mm Night-mode ProRAW
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max 0.5x (14mm) camera with Night mode activated and RAW output of 21.5mb. The 0.5x camera is only 12mp so having Night mode activated is inconsequential to the resolution. According to the Exif, it’s 16-bit color depth as Apple promised.
Handheld of course, no fiddling around with tripod necessary.
Post-processed externally on iMac.
For more on this iconic landmark;
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_Bridge
I tried the same shot with HEIF output but the file did not stand up to post-processing.
Ultimately smartphone photography is not that different from system cameras, if one intends to do post-processing, best select RAW output.
Using the iP15PM with a magnetic grip attached, it’s a hassle-free seamless process, no lens changing, no attaching/detaching to/from tripod, no deploying/folding tripod etc.
One minor problem I did encounter was the iPhone’s horizon level indicator, it’s just too thin and fine hence rather difficult to see. There is also no tilt indicator. I missed the thicker bar type tilt and level indicators on my E-M1 Mkii, this is a simple and useful thing for Apple to implement via software update.
iPhones can’t do long exposure without 3rd party apps. The Photonic Engine processing churns out best possible quality handheld shots, plain vanilla long exposure would probably produce an inferior outcome but surely in longer exposures, it could make a difference in color and noise? Perhaps Apple can add a special tripod mode whereby long exposure is combined with Photonic Engine processing and LENR?
This session I tried all modes for night photography; 0.5x camera in RAW and Night mode, 1x camera in 48mp ProRAW Max, 24mp HEIF and 12mp Night mode.
My key takeaway is; for the 1x main camera, avoid 12mp modes at all cost and this includes the Night mode. The 24mp mode is really quite good vs 48mp ProRAW Max for night scenes, the choice between the 2 boils down to how much post-processing one intends to do. Avoiding the Night mode for night photography sounds counterintuitive but the resultant 12mp output is noticeably worse than both 24mp mode and 48mp ProRAW Max outputs to my eyes. I had to discover this for myself, none of the online reviews were of any help on this unfortunately.
The new 24mp mode is really quite good and this truly sets the IPhone 15 Pro models apart from the IPhone 14 Pro models.
I’m however very much less confident of Apple’s iOS updates these days having 2 iPhone 11 Pro Max bricked within a month, the first after an iOS update and the 2nd not long after transferring its data over to a new iPhone. The subsequent visit to the Genius Bar was of zero help, ridiculous!
14mm Night-mode ProRAW
Shot with iPhone 15 Pro Max 0.5x (14mm) camera with Night mode activated and RAW output of 21.5mb. The 0.5x camera is only 12mp so having Night mode activated is inconsequential to the resolution. According to the Exif, it’s 16-bit color depth as Apple promised.
Handheld of course, no fiddling around with tripod necessary.
Post-processed externally on iMac.
For more on this iconic landmark;
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_Bridge
I tried the same shot with HEIF output but the file did not stand up to post-processing.
Ultimately smartphone photography is not that different from system cameras, if one intends to do post-processing, best select RAW output.
Using the iP15PM with a magnetic grip attached, it’s a hassle-free seamless process, no lens changing, no attaching/detaching to/from tripod, no deploying/folding tripod etc.
One minor problem I did encounter was the iPhone’s horizon level indicator, it’s just too thin and fine hence rather difficult to see. There is also no tilt indicator. I missed the thicker bar type tilt and level indicators on my E-M1 Mkii, this is a simple and useful thing for Apple to implement via software update.
iPhones can’t do long exposure without 3rd party apps. The Photonic Engine processing churns out best possible quality handheld shots, plain vanilla long exposure would probably produce an inferior outcome but surely in longer exposures, it could make a difference in color and noise? Perhaps Apple can add a special tripod mode whereby long exposure is combined with Photonic Engine processing and LENR?
This session I tried all modes for night photography; 0.5x camera in RAW and Night mode, 1x camera in 48mp ProRAW Max, 24mp HEIF and 12mp Night mode.
My key takeaway is; for the 1x main camera, avoid 12mp modes at all cost and this includes the Night mode. The 24mp mode is really quite good vs 48mp ProRAW Max for night scenes, the choice between the 2 boils down to how much post-processing one intends to do. Avoiding the Night mode for night photography sounds counterintuitive but the resultant 12mp output is noticeably worse than both 24mp mode and 48mp ProRAW Max outputs to my eyes. I had to discover this for myself, none of the online reviews were of any help on this unfortunately.
The new 24mp mode is really quite good and this truly sets the IPhone 15 Pro models apart from the IPhone 14 Pro models.
I’m however very much less confident of Apple’s iOS updates these days having 2 iPhone 11 Pro Max bricked within a month, the first after an iOS update and the 2nd not long after transferring its data over to a new iPhone. The subsequent visit to the Genius Bar was of zero help, ridiculous!