Are you a troll or just intentionally misreading my point?

I’ll repeat it so I’m clear: you shouldn’t need to shoot in RAW to get decent photos on Apple’s flagship smartphone. Anyone who jumped from the iPhone XS to the 13 or 14 (pro or not) can see that there is an issue with overexposure, oversharpening, and just a general change in how HDR is being handled.

Apple took away the HDR toggle option in the camera settings starting with the 13 and imo it was a mistake.

My 14 pro takes incredible photos, especially in RAW or with third party apps, but I shouldn’t have friends asking why the stock camera settings make their photos look weird and synthetic when they upgrade to one of the newer phones.

Having to adjust the settings to get a decent photo is antithetical to apple’s ethos towards the iPhone user experience. IMO they know this is an issue but haven’t acknowledged it yet. The 15 or 16 will hopefully have the software adjusted to match the new sensors and hardware on the 14 pro.

Sorry if that makes you angry but there’s a whole lotta people with technical knowledge of cameras and photography that have raised this issue. To respond to your other reply to my other comment, yes professional photographers use “real” cameras for their work but they also snap shots with their cell phone. To discount their knowledge because they’re using a smartphone is idiotic as the gap between DSLR and smartphone cameras gets smaller as the years go by and tech improves.

Just downloaded Halide the other day. Any settings or anything I should adjust or just open and shoot?

You don’t ever need to, but it’s fine if you want to. I just do it whenever I fell a slowdown.

I restart my phone anywhere from once a week to once month, whenever it feels like in needs it.

I agree. I thought I was the only one who felt this way. Recent Apple convert after using Samsung for many years. The pictures look so awful for a USD1K phone. If I were to show these to someone they might think I took it from some cheap non branded camera. I read through the forums and Apple does not even want to recognize this issue.

It’s for when you’re using your phone with one hand and can’t reach the top of the screen with your thumb. You swipe down on the swipe up bar

Do you want the photo sharpened or true to life? You have to make up your mind

Whenever you experience lag.

I mean, you can return it within a certain time period, like 14 days (which is the case across most markets if I'm not wrong). If you're not satisfied with it you can return it (within reason, obviously). I returned my 14PM and got the regular Pro instead. It still is a bit heavy but manageable still.

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I don't know I came from Samsung ever since the S7 to S22 Ultra and under no circumstance would I switch back to S22 Ultra camera other than for the zoom. The images created from Pixel 7 Pro, S22/S23 Ultra, Iphone all do a baseline good job and some situations one is better than the other but there's no clear cut winner overall. I feel like if I switched just for the camera then I'd find myself trading post-processing for some other post-processing that may or may not fit your preferences. Also interestingly, sometimes I noted the S22 Ultra even shooting in 108 megapixel mode some of the images looked less detailed than the Iphone 14 pro at 48 megapixel, so in general need to be careful about getting caught up in this 108 megapixel/200 megapixel jazz. Also the shutter lag is noticeable still on Samsung, even on the S23 Ultra so if that is part of your calculus you're pretty much stuck with the Pixel 7 Pro. But then if you go that route and you're worried about battery life then you're going to be worried about it even more on the Pixel.

Just get a Google Pixel 🫢

Why can’t they just make it simple? All these 3rd party applications just to have an original look that the stock camera app should be able to do.

That’s the reason ProRAW exists, for professional photography. Since professional photographers want an uncompressed photo they can adjust themselves, ProRAW doesn’t have any AI processing.

I’m not a professional photographer, but I take all of my photos in ProRAW, and shoot all of my videos in ProRes @ 4K, simply because the detail is noticeable in an uncompressed file, and because I don’t have to deal with the shitty post-processing of the 14 Pro’s camera 🙄

You can record ProRes with both the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro in 128GB. The difference is that you need at least a 256GB model to record in ProRes @ 4K. The 128GB models still support ProRes, but are limited to 1080p while filming in ProRes.

I switch for pixel for that

it doesn't open and close the shutter. That shutter sound you hear is coming out of the speakers

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/reachability-iph145eba8e9/ios

Do you have deficit of intelligence or something? Guy who makes photos using only his smartphone isn’t a photographer because there is need almost no skill to do so, if you want to do professional photos you don’t use your smartphones camera but you invest in dedicated camera to do it.

Yeah user are mostly idiots.

Those “tech reviewers” are mostly simple users not specialists so stop glorying bunch of guys with shallow tech knowledge as someone that is reputable only because his base is 10 millions of insignificant 14/20 yo guys😩

When you swipe down at the bottom of your phone, it pulls it down. It was made so that you could reach the top of your phone one handed with the bigger phones.

Settings->Accessibility->Touch->Reachability

They make iPhone camera for hobbyists and this should be clear to everyone, if you want to make professional photos just use the professional camera and stop ranting about silly cameras from smartphones as they aren’t even close to any canon or similar.

I’m just waiting for us to graduate past this utterly ridiculous three camera system.

The fact that anyone thought it made sense to flip through three different cameras while recording a video is mind-boggling to me.

I get that they’re trying to sell new phones and the technology hasn’t caught up yet, but hacking shit together like this is ridiculous. And yes I know there’s a setting to disable it.

But there are times I can’t even focus for a photo because it’s stuck on the wrong camera. It’s just crap technology. Bring back Steve Jobs.