Another yr, one other iPhone, however the brand new iPhone 17 Pro brings with it a big set of recent options that is perhaps of curiosity to photographers.
Tech/Camera YouTuber Tyler Stalman had an opportunity to get some seat time behind the iPhone 17 collection, and took a deep dive into the options of the iPhone 17 Pro. More importantly, he was allowed to AirDrop the photographs to himself and do a head-to-head comparability in opposition to the iPhone 16 Pro. The outcomes are wanting a lot better than an iPhone has ever appeared.
I’ve been placing iPhones (and Pixels, too) by way of the paces for years, and one irritating trait of iPhone photographs, even when taking pictures uncooked recordsdata, has been a “painterly” look when zooming in on the photographs. There was only a lack of element upon shut inspection that immediately pegged a photograph as being “shot on an iPhone.” It’s one thing I did not see in any of the Pixels I had and definitely not from any DSLR or mirrorless digicam.
Stalman’s preliminary assessments appear to substantiate that this might not be the case any longer. There’s a definite distinction in the way in which the iPhone 17 Pro processes photographs when positioned subsequent to a 16 Pro. Stalman posits a number of theories on this, but when I needed to take a guess, I’d say it could be a mixture of the telephone’s bigger sensor and a special post-processing pipeline.
Stalman does a deep dive into all the adjustments and new capabilities of the digicam on the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro within the video above, so verify that out in case you’re inquisitive about studying extra.
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