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Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test

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velcrovan · 1789920121 · focus · HN ↗
Someone should assemble a chain of iPhone camera review comparison images published over the years, 18 → 17, 17 → 16, 16 → 15 etc. showing how each year's new phone being so much better than the previous year's somehow becomes perceivably bad next to the next year's phone.
1. Doohickey-d · 1789968513 · focus · HN ↗
  Youtuber Marques Brownlee did this (as a short). It's actually not so noticeable, it's only once you get to the very oldest phones that it's visibly worse.
  the difference will be in things like low-light, telephoto lenses, video capability, HDR, and lots of other things that don't show up in most photos (including that one)
  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jru9Gsz3kJY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jru9Gsz3kJY
  1. rrr_oh_man · 1789983963 · focus · HN ↗
    Only iPhone 4 sticks out, 1 through 17 are all fine.
  2. josephg · 1789987301 · focus · HN ↗
    It'd be much better if this test was done in low light. The tiny sensors in iphones work fine when there's plenty of light around. The real test is how well they do when the you aren't sitting in the sun.
    OGWhales · 1789996297 · focus · HN ↗
    Indeed, I found the oil-painting effect really rough on certain year iphones in low light/when using one of the zoom lenses.
  3. ksec · 1790050480 · focus · HN ↗
    And it sort of reach a plateau where for normal consumer it doesn't matter much other than zoom. Which is important to a certain extend.
    I wish there is some tech in the pipeline, that in the next 5 - 10 years we could get decent pictures quality without the huge bump.
  4. butlike · 1790098739 · focus · HN ↗
    The iPhone 1 doesn't look THAT bad to me. Also I wonder if its worth 13.6 thousand ($13,600) in phone upgrades over the years?

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