iPhone 16 (Plus, Pro Max and Pro)

murpho999

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122642410#Comment_122642410

Why are you people storing data on their phone with cheap iCloud backups possible? Never understand this?

murpho999

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122636176#Comment_122636176

General consensus of most users and reviwers is that's it's not that big a jump.

Each to their own and what they do with their money but I generally find to year the minimum period for upgrading and generally do so every 3-4. Then you notice a jump.

eeloe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122648798#Comment_122648798

To be fair i've got the flagship, every year, since the original iphone(i got the first one from a friend in the states, and then the 3g was the first one availabe from o2 back in the day) and i have noticed a difference, year on year.

.Donegal.

I watched a photo compare between 15 and 16 pro max. The 15 pro max was much better. 16 over saturated a lot of things. The basic 13 was better 80% of the time than the 16 regarding pictures. From what I’ve seen it doesn’t seem that great

faceman

Having played with the Pro camera now for a few days it's definitely a step ahead of many other flagship phones given how much control it gives the user with controlling tone etc with pics. Photos can now look like real photos again.

Of course it wouldn't be Apple if there wasn't a catch - you can only do it with pics taken in the Apple format, not jpg.

awec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122649163#Comment_122649163

I think this is just down to Apple's whacky post-processing it does on photos which can be pretty awful sometimes.

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122652252#Comment_122652252

Yeah, it looks as though the default processing is over-saturated and over-sharpened (as is common on many devices), but if you're willing to delve into the settings, there's scope for considerable improvement and excellent results. I'm not sure if it's true, but I've read that you can't preset your own preferences for these settings, so you have to manually adjust them each time.

The question is, new Camera Control button notwithstanding, are people willing to go to the trouble to manually adjust settings for phone photos? I've been into photography for decades, and I've multiple mirrorless cameras that I always shoot on manual - and having dedicated buttons and multiple dials is extremely important to me in choosing a camera. But 99% of the time with my phone, I just want to click. I don't ever use the ProRaw format, just HEIF. I sometimes do a bit of post processing of my phone photos in the Photos app maybe just to adjust shadows or highlights, but I never bring them into Lightroom on my Mac, whereas I spend as much time in there with my "serious" mirrorless camera photos (which are always in Raw) as I do shooing.

awec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122652401#Comment_122652401

I think 99% of people never do anything other than take the default of what Apple gives you, or they just do something really basic like apply one of the preset filters.

Usually only people who have an eye for photography will notice when the Apple processing gives you something that isn't great.

The sites that review iPhone cameras are obviously aimed at people who understand cameras so they always pick up when the default processing is bad.

Cyrus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122647427#Comment_122647427

its a DLC coating which is durable but not completely scratch proof, black ceramic would have been better.