#Iphone 12 pro max pro

Take this shot I took passing a restaurant in Chinatown (the owner has consented with me putting up this image): This is even more evident when you look at images closely and there’s even less light.

#Iphone 12 pro max pro

This unfortunately ‘blurs’ superior details out of the iPhone 12 Pro Max. It seems Apple’s Camera app applies just as much noise reduction to the 12 Pro Max image as it does for regular iPhone 12. We can zoom in on this a bit to see that better: Apple’s Camera app above, Halide RAW below. Meanwhile, photos in the first-party Camera app get a bit… smudgy: Apple’s Camera app above, Halide RAW below. The difference gets dramatic as the sunset progresses:Īgain, these are RAW files shot in Halide. As shadows get darker and light gets dimmer, you can start seeing shifts in detail. Everything changes between the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro Max the moment sunset begins. Still, the detail isn’t easy to spot in bright daylight. Since the iPhone 12 has a bit more noise, there’s less detail. RAWs omits steps like multi-exposure combination and noise reduction, there will be some noise but that lets us see how much noise the camera really has to deal with. We get a better look with RAWs (shot with Halide, of course). On top of that, Apple’s intelligent image processing combines multiple shots together, which makes it harder to look into the hardware. Here’s why we’re seeing stories that the camera is a minor difference at best: Most people who aren’t seeing the dramatic difference are shooting in daylight, with a fast ƒ/1.6 lens. More of these shots on Instagram.Ĭan you tell the difference? For reference, the iPhone 12 Pro Max is at the bottom. More light means more signal, less noise, and sharper results. Giving these sensor sites more room and making them larger makes them more sensitive to light. We’re all a little sensitive in 2020, but these are significantly more sensitive thanks to their larger size. Instead, Apple decided to make the the photo sites bigger, because one most important aspects of image quality images (and really, life in general) is signal to noise. But we’re at a point of diminishing returns in megapixel wars. You’d think a bigger sensor means more pixels - and indeed, a bigger sensor could allow you to pack in more pixels. (Technically each pixel on that sensor is called a ‘photosite,’ as they collect, yes, photons) These sensors are packed together to get an image that measures 3024 by 4032 pixels. Imagine a camera sensor as a collection of lots of smaller sensors. Ok, practically speaking, what does this mean? When iFixit took this chonker apart, they also noted how large it was: Here’s Kay-Kay holding a rather large new camera array on the iFixit Live iPhone 12 Pro Max teardown. Is it? What does that even mean? Let’s visualize it: The biggest news was that the iPhone 12 Pro Max got a bigger sensor. Specs are cool, but now that we have the hardware we can take a deeper look at how these changes affect real-world photography.

A new telephoto lens, reaching a new length of 65mm (full-frame equivalent).

A brand-new ‘sensor shift’ stabilization system for low-light.

We had an advanced look at the Pro Max specs, but to recap, it has: So surprising we’ve decided to create this whole separate post about it. But the iPhone 12 Pro Max tests were quite surprising. We’ll get into the iPhone 12 camera - we have a lot of thoughts on that. Some reviewers on the internet panned it as an indistinguishable improvement from the iPhone 12 camera, while others called it quite good. Apple devoted a whole section of their keynote to it, and we got a ton of questions about it on our Twitter. On Friday, we got our hands on the final iPhones in this year’s line-up, the iPhone 12 mini and the iPhone 12 Pro Max. At Halide HQ, we’ve been busily working away on a very deep, technical analysis of what’s new in iPhone 12 cameras this year.