Apple, well known for consistently driving the attention of people in name of events and launching new products, once again stuns the tech-followers with its latest iPhone 13 series. Exceptionally good, which is what Apple iPhone’s performance is known for, continues its streak with these 13 series too. Besides so and so, the feature that made the users’ and reviewers’ jaw down is none other than iPhone 13 Pro Max’s Camera. To state in a line, iPhone 13 Pro Max provisions the Best Camera setup beating all other Smartphones that’re existing as of now, October 2021.
Here’s what the camera is all about!
iPhone 13 Pro Max – Bestest Camera
Apple boasts the cutting-edge photography via its latest iPhone 13 Pro Max, performing the best when it comes to colors, white balance and details. Apple’s camera now asks you to pick from Photographic Styles on the first open, which offer customizable contrast and tint to your pictures. There are four presets, Vibrant, Rich, Contrast, Warm and Cool.
The specifications of the quad-cam go like this:
- 12 MP, dual pixel PDAF, dual OIS, f/1.5, 1.9µm pixel size
- 12 MP ultra-wide, 120-degree field of view, five-element lens, PDAF, f/1.8
- 12 MP telephoto, f/2.8, dual OIS, six-element lens
- 3x Optical zoom in, 2x optical zoom out; 6x optical zoom range; Digital zoom up to 15x
- 12 MP front camera, f/2.2
- TrueDepth 3D sensor (depth and biometrics)
- Night mode portraits enabled by LiDAR scanner
- Panorama (up to 63MP)
- 4K HDR 60fps, 1080p HD video recording upto 60fps and 1080p HD 120fps slo-mo video recording
- Cinematic Video Stabilization and time-lapse video stabilization even at night mode
Understanding the Specifications
Apple plays the smartest in driving users to admire its quality of the camera, of-course besides performance. iPhone 13 Pro Max’s 12 MP camera with these much of specs mentioned above, capture you the detailed image with reduced noise and enough color-exposure. If you argue, just with the megapixels it has, that even a mid-range android phone has megapixels above beyond 12, then you should definitely continue reading this, to understand the specifications of the camera.
First of all, 12MP is not lesser but the ideal resolution for smartphone sensors. Even the Ultra HD displays that you view in TVs are 10MP & less, 8.3MP to be precise. Furthermore, a 12MP sensor will do fine for even 4K UHD videos.
Now, you could realize the reason Apple sticking to 12MP sensors, as it’s enough.
Speaking of one by one, the camera system comprises of telephoto, wide & ultra-wide cameras. Telephoto is nothing but a lens with longer focal length than standard, giving a narrow field of view and a magnified image. The wide and ultra-wide cameras – name depicts its use, to shoot wide-images.
The cam provisions dual pixel PDAF (Phase Detection AutoFocus), a key-element in focusing the subject giving no spaces to blur. A lot of modern smartphones have this PDAF, as it’s both faster and more accurate than classic contrast detection. In simple words, PDAF is how efficiently the light from the object converges on the sensor, passing from the lens. For example, light coming from two different points on the lens converge on a single point, to produce a crystal-clear image.
The photos you click on iPhone 13 Pro Max will have no shake, unless you willingly wanted to. Thanks to its dual OIS (Optical Image Stabilization).
The f/1.5, f/1.8, f/2.8 you see in the specifications are nothing but apertures. Just when quality of the image is judged by handling of the light, a good rule of thumb for a good camera is figuring out how good it is at capturing light. The more light it allows to enter through to reach the pixels, crystal-clear the photo is. Apertures hold the importance here.
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Hole or gap, what aperture actually means, is an opening through which light enters a camera. The size of the aperture is measured in f-stops, a ratio of the focal length divided by the opening size. Hence the smaller the f-stop, the wider the opening, and therefore more light can reach the sensor, resulting in better low light pictures, faster shutter speeds and less noise.
The lens in 13 Pro Max has an f/1.5 aperture, that can very quickly take in a massive amount of light relative to other phones. Due to this, the noise of the image in low light is also reduced and shadow exposure is more accurate now too. It renders you a more stabilized detailed click, at night time too.
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Field of view for the ultra-wide lens camera has 1200 and 3x optical zoom, capturing you a much wider image. The 2x optical zoom out fetches you a broad image in the main wide-angle lens itself. The ultra-wide lens provides a huge step back from the main sensor, with colors and exposure that almost perfectly match the main sensor. Kudos to Apple, as color and exposure matching is a problem we see on a lot of other phones. Overall, the iPhone 13 Pro Max is a consistently good shooter from 0.5x out to 5x, enough flexibility for all but the extremely demanding photographer.
Can you experience the zooming quality of the phone?
An oddity that Apple seems to have introduced is automatic camera lens switching to ensure the best focus. For example, 3x won’t always use the telephoto lens if the environment is too dark or the subject too close. While this is a good idea in principle, this means that the phone regularly resorts to the inferior ultra-wide camera for macro and won’t engage the 3x telephoto at closer and medium ranges.
It’s virtually impossible to take a Bad Picture with this iPhone 13 Pro Max.
One new feature Apple has included with the iPhone 13 Pro Max is a new Cinematic video mode. The option brings software bokeh to video capture with the added gimmick of autofocusing on faces looking at the camera.
This Cinematic Video shot on 13 Pro Max seems perfect cinematic!
Overall, Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max sufficiently satisfies the photography nerds, and puts some spark into so called, noob photographers. But don’t argue with its prices..! 😂
