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Classic "Old Florida" style home on the Indian River Lagoon with requisite boat dock in back. One of many beautiful homes in the Riomar area. (Redux to correct alignment)
19-12-2023
c/ Fernando el Católico
Madrid, España.
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Elligan est le nom de cet arbre. C'est un nom féminin. L'arbre est de la famille de pins. Ce matin, elle était illuminée par le soleil derrière elle. En bougeant mon iPhone, j'ai peint un Z.
Elligan is the name of the tree. It's a feminine name. The tree is of the pine tree family. This morning, she was illuminated by the sun behind her. As I moved my iPhone, I painted a Z
First snap from a new phone. I took it to a photo shoot in this limekiln ruins. Also brought the real camera so that I can compare. I'll add a few more images from this trip later.
Edited in LR on the phone.
This image was used on the front cover of Amateur Photographer Magazine in the UK (19th March edition).
Images from a recent Photography with a Mobile Phone workshop - www.macleanphotographic.com/mobile-phone-photo-video-1
One of the upgrades on the iPhone 15 Pro Max is an increased telephoto reach from 3x to 5x, only for the Pro Max. This additional reach will also play will into magnification, when paired with a Moment 75mm Macro lens you can get some pretty intense magnification out of that camera!
The main camera (1x) on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max cameras (as well as the 14 equivalents) is capable of shooting 48MP raw files. This is not true for the wide and telephoto cameras which are still both limited to 12MP. That said, there is a lot of potential even with the limited resolution, as you can see in this image. The scale is extremely small, a couple millimeters. This is cropped slightly, but you can see that high magnification with a phone camera is certainly possible!
We must understand that there are certain limitations at play here, and it’s not just the resolution of the camera sensor. The closer you get to your subject, the shallower your depth of field becomes. We are also playing at the extreme edge of resolving power due to diffraction; even if the telephoto camera was capable of generation more than 12MP, I doubt it would translate into anything meaningful in the final image due to diffraction. I’ll save the physics lesson on diffraction for another day, but this is a realm where a larger professional camera could get better results. Not saying the results here aren’t worth achieving, though! Especially as so many people are ditching the interchangeable lens cameras for shooting more exclusively with whatever fits in their pocket.
This dandelion seed isn’t fresh. If you pick these seeds, they’ll usually keep well enough for a year so you can use them over the winter – just store them in a small cardboard box so they can completely dry out. The majority of the droplets come from a spray bottle but the large one in the middle is placed with a hypodermic needle. A Gerbera Daisy is placed in the background – notice it has a greenish center? That green is what creates the background. These daisies work best when the center of the flower has a different colour than the petals which allows for a lot of colour contrast across the frame.
As for additional equipment, the shot is set up using LumeCube 2.0 lights and a bunch of gear from Platypod: their new phone grip ( www.platypod.com/products/platypod-grip ) is a key component, but so is the handle, the gooseneck arms, the elbows and the clamps. The clamps are good for holding larger things for the very precise grip needed to hold a dandelion seed, it’s augmented with an alligator clip. You might want to create images like this under a towel, as you’re going to get a lot of water everywhere.
You can find a "behind the scenes" view of the setup here: donkom.ca/bts/PDKP8061.jpg
A few people asked based on the previous iPhone photograph I shared, “which lens is best for [insert phone name]”? I can tell you that the Moment 75mm macro lens ( www.shopmoment.com/products/75mm-macro-mobile-lens-t-series/ ) is a great option and it’ll work for any iPhone, Google Pixel or Samsung Galaxy phone when you get the case and the T-series drop-in adapter. That’s not to say it’s the only option available! However, be wary of grandiose claims like “50x microscope” or extremely inexpensive offerings. You get what you pay for. You’re already pushing up against the limitations of the physics of light, so you don’t want your lens to add additional faults.
I'm amazed at how well the iPhone 15 Pro Max picks up the details and texture of this tree trunk, even with the 120mm camera.
An early morning walk from Penrhyn Bay to Colwyn Bay along the coastal path taking in Rhos on Sea a small seaside town. A beautiful Christmas Day sunrise over the Welsh hills appears in the distant background.
Rhos on Sea. North Wales.
Burgoo is a stew, similar to Irish or Mulligan stew, often served with cornbread or corn muffins that originated in Kentucky. It is often prepared communally as a social gathering. It is popular as the basis for civic fundraisers in the Upland South. This is an annual family undertaking. 30 gallons this time around. Photo includes my daughter, her husband and his parents. Takes about 7-8 hours to make not counting the multiple hours of preparing the ingredients. The final product has a reddish color from tomato juice…not yet added at time of photo.
Street shooting with iPhone 15 Pro Max.
48mp 81.9mb ProRAW Max file post-processed externally.
Nobody bats an eyelid when it’s a smartphone, it’s the perfect street camera. It’s probably better to set it to 1.2x (28mm) or 1.5x (35mm) crop modes instead for street shooting.
One will have to be afflicted with a really severe case of knownothingitis to suggest that camera makers would do well to modernize their 1” sensor cameras to counter the latest smartphones.
Camera makers can never make cameras like smartphone makers simply because;
(1) Economies of scale weighs overwhelmingly in favor of smartphone makers by almost 100x,
(2) Software; camera makers lack the software know how of smartphone makers and
(3) Hardware; specifically smartphones can use expensive state of the art processors thanks to (1) above.
Bottomline is, camera makers can never make cameras incorporating smartphone technologies simply because they do not have the economies of scale to make it viable for the consumer.
If Apple was to make a P&S zoom lens camera with a 1” sensor, it could be a great offering but Apple won’t even bother because of the relatively microscopic size of the camera market vs the colossal smartphone market which is almost 100x bigger.
Existing camera makers' hypothetical beefed up 1” compact cameras will not be anywhere as good as what Apple or any top smartphone manufacturer can make simply because of the level of software sophistication and the expensive processors used. Even Sony has given up, their last 1” compact was the RX100VII from 2019. Sony’s Xperia 1 V smartphone is also not competitive against the likes of iPhone 14 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra from the same generation, no thanks to Sony’s tiny market share in the smartphone market and relative lack of software sophistication.
Olympus had the most advanced computational photography features of all current camera makers but yet their HHHR with a m4/3 sensor (>2x larger than the largest sensor of iPhone 15 Pro series) is no better than the iPhone’s Photonic Engine because the iPhone has gone beyond plain vanilla multiple frame stacking.
Olympus’ HHHR and Apple’s Photonic Engine both stack multiple images but the latter goes much further by selecting the best frames down to the pixel level with different frames optimized for different aspects such as EV, noise, color, type of subject (depth map) etc.
Today’s premium smartphones are essentially mini-computers with processors way more powerful than the best cameras. This will continue to drive greater sophistication in smartphones’ computational photography while camera makers’ attempts at this appears to be at a standstill.
Currently for smartphones, the biggest advances are in the main camera only, it will be interesting to see the day when all 3 cameras namely UWA, Wide and Telephoto all use state of the art 1” or larger sensors with global shutter and state of the art computational photography which is essentially about how much data (frames) you can squeeze in the milliseconds exposure and internally processed with minimal lag.
What changed from iPhone 11 Pro Max to iPhone 15 Pro Max is much more powerful processor(s) allowing computational photography to kick in much earlier in the imaging pipeline at greater bit-depth and deeper into the pixel level, more brackets are likely also possible with greater speed and better IBIS.
I’m less and less inclined to spend $$$ on latest cameras and lenses in view of the speed of advancement in smartphone cameras plus the fact that there has not been any meaningful breakthrough in camera tech in years.
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