The mini is the best thing I’ve seen in a while. Fans of smaller phones everywhere are rejoicing.
I just wish they’d give iPad the same treatment and make a Pro in a Mini size :)
I just wish they’d give iPad the same treatment and make a Pro in a Mini size :)
I almost always have my phone, whereas I am not carrying (lugging) my dslr or even my mirrorless around. No thanks.
Unless you are printing these photos, the iphone's cameras are more than adequate for posting online.
Everyone says this until they see photos of the same event from a dedicated camera with a large optical path.
However as I mentioned those cameras are not fun to carry around all day unlike my phone. They are bulky and heavy, so I prefer not to use them except in important events or just around the house. And these days phone cameras are getting rather good for the average user's use case like posting to instagram.
A mirrorless camera may have a wider dynamic range by default, but modern iPhones have incredible Smart HDR capabilities that actually work really well. With a mirrorless, they can do an auto HDR effect using several photos, but it's a much simpler effect, and you can't get RAW photos when using that. The new iPhone 12 will capture RAW photos even when applying Deep Fusion and other advanced techniques, from what they mentioned on stage today.
I'm fairly sure no common mirrorless camera is going to be able to do HDR video at the level that the iPhone 12 will do it.
If Apple or Google would make a mirrorless camera that combined their intelligent camera software with a larger sensor, that would be epic. Right now, there are always trade-offs, no matter which camera you pick.
I've thought about getting a mirrorless camera to have that massive sensor for night photography, and to have the variety of lenses, but it's a lot of money for something substantial to have to carry around, and the difference just isn't what it used to be.
Even if you're printing these photos, an iPhone 12 is going to be able to take a lot of really crisp, excellent photos. With the help of LiDAR, I think the 12 Pro will be able to create a really compelling portrait mode effect that's less glitchy than the current techniques that don't have an accurate depth map instantly available.
Computational photography is a real thing, and it's impressive how much they have made up for the lack of physical space that would be required for a giant sensor.
If you scroll back on this twitter feed, you can see some nice examples of pictures shot on iPhone by various people: https://twitter.com/halidecamera
They're not "nice for a smartphone" pictures. They're just good pictures.
I run into them all the time. Only really boring photography with no stressors looks OK on a cell phone camera.
> The new iPhone 12 will capture RAW photos even when applying Deep Fusion and other advanced techniques
Then it's not a raw image; it's just called that for marketing.
Unless you mean "MILCs won't give you RAWs when using HDRs", which is wrong.
> I'm fairly sure no common mirrorless camera is going to be able to do HDR video at the level that the iPhone 12 will do it
I'm quite confident log-format video e.g. from an X-T3 will be much better (modulo the fact that you have to postprocess it manually).
I was hoping for the headphone jack to make a comeback but I think that’s a lost cause at this point
If they can have a camera bump for the cameras, why not a little bump for a headset jack???
I got tired of fighting the 3.5mm battle after I broke my 6, plus the new chips in the later series are way faster than the 6 now.
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FWIW I've been using a 2016 SE since... 2016, and I bought a spare one from Apple's refurbished clearance in 2019 when it became clear the phone would no longer be available outside ebay/grey market. If it's been silently available this whole time at any authorized seller that'd be huge news to me.
I use an iPod Touch (smaller than the Mini) as my "low-end" test device.
Whenever I'm using it, I feel envious, as my regular phone is an XSMax.
Diagonals only tell you so much, unfortunately.
With the new flat sides and smaller form factor, they basically just rereleased the iPhone 5 (with, I'll admit, a couple of new features)