Samsung and Google phones do the postprocessing thing too, but the end results on those devices are usually much more palatable than what I get on my iPhone 14 Pro. However, the difference is that Google actually does it well, unlike Apple. The iPhone 14 Pro versions look so bad that I delete them immediately.Īpple isn’t the only one that does computational photography - Google touts the Pixel 7 as having some fantastic computational photography abilities with its Tensor G2 chip. I get better results with the Samsung Galaxy S23 and the midrange Galaxy A54. I really should just give up trying to get a decent lowlight selfie, because it just seems impossible with the iPhone 14 Pro. I hate taking selfies in low light on my iPhone 14 Pro because they never seem to come out well - it always looks like a bad watercolor painting. I also believe my lowlight selfies looked better on older iPhone models, going back to the iPhone XS and iPhone 11 Pro specifically, as they are clear and sharp. I had the iPhone 12 Pro and don’t remember noticing my images looking so badly processed after I shot them. Night mode images sometimes don’t even look like they were taken at night because things are overly bright, making it look like twilight. Colors end up looking too harsh or washed-ut compared to what you see in reality, and skin tones may not be accurate as a result. There’s no toggle to turn off this computational photography, and more often than not, I dislike the final image and much prefer what I saw before the image was finished processing. Take a photo with your iPhone 13 or iPhone 14 device, then tap that thumbnail immediately and watch as the processor does its “magic.” You’ll see an image at first that looks like what you saw in the viewfinder, but then a few moments pass, and the image will change into what Apple deems as “good.” The result is often over-sharpened, over-processed, and just does not look great. Smart HDR basically snaps multiple photos of a scene with different settings, then combines the “best” elements of all those images into a single photo. It introduced Smart HDR in 2018, now in its fourth iteration with the iPhone 14. I noticed that this started with the iPhone 13 lineup, when Apple began to emphasize its computational photography processes and capabilities with the A-series Bionic chips. But all of that is for nothing now because of the computational photography and postprocessing that ruins most of my images - and there is literally no way to turn it off. And each year, I’ve always been impressed with the iPhone’s camera hardware upgrades. My only cameras nowadays are my smartphones because I can capture any moment without having to lug around a separate camera. One of the reasons I like to upgrade my iPhone every year is because of the camera. Apple’s losing the camera game Christine Romero-Chan / Digital Trends Looking for another story of smartphone regret? See why my colleague Mark Jansen wishes he never bought his Pixel 7 Pro.
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