Will be trying it out for a bit now. Thanks for developing!

Starting to feel rly good about buying a 14 yday now, was a tossup between the 14 and 14 pro

As a fellow 13 Pro owner, no. They genuinely look like garbage and way way worse than my X. Sharper yes, but with so much bad post processing it‘s frankly ridiculous.

People have been complaining since the iPhone 12 that the pictures quite frankly look like garbage compared to previous models.

HDR blows out highlights where it shouldn’t, oversharpening, noise reduction, saturation… seriously, except from the general sharpness (which in my opinion is one of the least important aspects of a good photo) it‘s such a step back from the previous models and not even funny anymore.

I have to believe Apple has done its due diligence when it comes to finding out what the average smartphone user wants out of their camera. If you (like me) don’t care for the default iPhone camera output, then continue to shoot in ProRaw or use Lightroom Mobile to capture DNG images. That way you’ have the latitude you need to make your photos look the way you want.

Even if you had a professional-grade camera, you wouldn’t be happy with the native jpeg output; the algorithms that choose the level of sharpening, the colors, etc are designed around the average person. This is why most photographers shoot RAW.

Zoom as in the app or the zoom feature while using Facetime? And on the front camera or back?

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proRAW is literally the ONLY semi fix, if you take a picture with it and then go into edit mode it changes into a normal non-enhanced photo

I think their software is not yet properly calibrated to the new bigger sensor. One does not need that much processing anymore but they will probably address it with future iPhones, since they will use this sensor with the next 2 generations. So software updates won‘t reach the 14 models.

It’s not, just turn off proraw. They said it themselves it’s for photographers and not the average user. If you want the normal ease of use just don’t use proraw. It’s literally meant to be edited after the picture is taken if you use pro raw

As long as you aren't zooming with the "pinch" gesture you shouldn't be getting a crazy amount of noise reduction. If you are pinching try instead to tap the numbers at the bottom of the screen representing the different lenses. Otherwise take it to Apple for repair.

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Same here. Under some conditions the stock app just doesn't cut it at all, and Halide does a much better job in almost every circumstance. It's a juggle between file size and quality.

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I noticed photos look much better if you shoot in ProRAW because there is much less post-processing going on.

Actually no :/ The problem is that sensors produce images in 3:4 aspect ratio. The only way to show a full screen preview is to apply a crop, but then, when you take a photo, will either get

• an image that is different from the preview,
• or get a cropped image. What the system camera app does to give the illusion of being full screen is to blend a frame from the main camera with a frame from the ultrawide, but this approach isn’t allowed with manual exposure/focus.

If I get requests about this specific feature I can consider implementing, but will probably deliver cropped images.

Apple head quarters : oh no a post, on an online iPhone dedicated forum of 3 700 000 people, about how bad our processing looks has gotten 30-400 upvotes, we must change everything right now

The weak point of the iPhone lenses is that they lack the fancy optical coatings that the Nikon’s and Canon’s have. The evidence is the amount of chromatic aberrations which is the purple fringes around backlit things like tree branches.

Apple appears to be exploring what software can do to make things “Automagic” for the masses. As a semi-pro I want just the RAW file to tweak myself because those are important expressive choices that belong in the realm of an artist. I used to have a Nikon flagship camera and lived in photoshop, so anything automagic is just frustrating! I’d like to have a “Pro-mode” that leaves the RAW file alone! That should be easy for Apple right?

>I don't want my photos automatically edited after I click the shutter button. This is my biggest problem with this phone and I really hope they address this because it's the first time since 2014 that I have thought about moving away from Apple to Samsung.

Yes Apple's Post-Processing is heavy but I'm pretty sure all smartphones automatically do processing and editing of the photos after clicking the shutter button.

I knew battery life wouldn't be great over last years since they normally brag about it in the keynotes. They only bragged about the 14 Plus battery.

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people have been submitting appeals to change the heavy processing through the links apple set for problems etc, since the iphone 12 came out, 3 major updates later, still no change, because they simply do not care about their users. being biased definitely won’t help either

Stop acting like Apple doesn’t keep track of what’s going on online

Samsung does this also. It’s why their pictures look over saturated.

I got embarrassed when some friends used phone for photo and it came out over sharpened and made everyone look super ugly