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Forum: General Photography
05-11-2019, 07:23 AM
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Fen, I myself was shocked by the images that came out of an iPhone and this was several years ago ! I was attending a luncheon sponsored by my day-job and I had my Pentax K-5 IIs with with Pentax 31mm f1.8. A colleague of mine showed me some pictures he had been taking with his iPhone. All of them where perfectly exposed and sharp. Considering we were in very dim lighting and he wasn't using flash, the pictures looked great. No fiddling around with aperture and shutter speed, no research on where the light was coming from, no Tripod/Monopod, just click, click, click and the pictures came out looking great ! Tell you the truth, I felt a little embarrassed carrying all that "expensive" gear. After the luncheon we compared images and lucky for me the pictures from the Pentax combination 31 mm lens won out, but not by much. I'm not sure what algorithms these iPhone use but maybe Canon, Nikon, Pentax, etc. should start taking a look. The problem with the iPhone is when it comes to printing and blowing up the image. Although the newer models have more megapixels, I could barely print a decent image past a 5x7 with my iPhone 5. Another problem is creativity and control. The other day I was at a horse race-track. There were a bunch of people with their iPhone's out taking pictures of the horses as they raced by. I said to myself NO WAY ! Come to find out that the highest shutter speed on an iPhone 6 is 1/10,000 of a second ! No that is not a typo 1/10,000 of a second. SCARY ...
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