Adam Kos It's kitsch, but beautiful kitsch. Moreover, if you have it 10 km from the barracks. The weekend inversion in Tábor in South Bohemia showed the weaknesses of the iPhone's telephoto lens. These are not photos from the iPhone 14 Pro (Max), but the news hasn't changed that much compared to the previous generation. Resolution and brightness remained.
Apple introduced a telephoto lens with a double zoom already in the iPhone 7 Plus and since then it has mainly increased its sensor and thus the pixels, because since then it has always been 12 MPx. Apple gradually improved the "aperture", when it started at a value of ƒ/2,8, the one in the iPhone 11 Pro (Max) was already at a value of ƒ/2,0. However, with the iPhone 12 Pro (Max) model, Apple has raised the zoom to 2,5x and with it also adjusted the aperture to ƒ/2,2, so that the iPhone 13 Pro (Max) brings 3x zoom and an aperture of ƒ/2,8. This has not changed at all with the current generation (except that Apple claims up to 2x better photos in low light).
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But there are scenes when you need to be closer. A certain landscape is photographed nicely with an ultra-wide-angle lens, but inversion is exactly the phenomenon from which you want to be physically as far as possible, optically as close as possible. In an ultra-wide-angle photo, nothing of this phenomenon will be visible. In a wide-angle photo, you can still see the amount of land below you and the sky above you. The telephoto lens is therefore best suited for this. But iPhones have a maximum of 3x zoom, when you are always too far away and if you go closer, the photographed scenery is hidden from you.
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Flying around the world with Apple More than once I thought of the Galaxy S22 Ultra with its 10x optical zoom (ƒ/4,9 aperture) while taking pictures, and how far that zoom would take me. Half of what Samsung can do would be enough. In addition, the resulting photos blur a lot of complex elements, such as grass in the foreground or trees in the background, it's stupid to digitally zoom in on the photo, because it looks pretty terrible. Of course, it's still amazing where the photographic capabilities of mobile phones have come, especially Apple's, which are among the best in the industry, but in the near future, the company should finally take that step in the form of a periscope. From the results of the Galaxy S22 Ultra, we know that it is possible, and the Google Pixel 7 Pro, which is also equipped with it, also topped the DXOMark ranking for a while.
Sample photos are taken with the iPhone 13 Pro Max and are without any additional editing or cropping. You can download them for closer examination <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>.
- You can buy the iPhone 14 Pro Max for example at Mobile Emergency (you can also take advantage of the Buy, sell, sell, pay off action, in which you can get an iPhone 14 from 98 CZK per month)
Unfortunately, the phone doesn't do the composition itself, does it? Technically good, compositionally good for nothing.