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Well it’s in telephoto and 1/121 exposure so the photographer was probably wobbling around like mad when it was taken and the overlay and computational image stuff got confused.

I’m fine with this. I use a mini tripod with my 13 pro on telephoto. Back in the old days this would just look like ass instead.

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I would rate any camera that does this as 1/100. It cannot possibly be a worse camera. How anyone that have an interest in photography can see swapping a head with a leaf as just fine is beyond me. It's no better than using Snapchat like filters and calling it raw. It's is utterly broken and should be removed ASAP from all iPhones.

I’ve taken about 8000 photos from iPhone 6 to 13pro and sifted through them all manually within a day or so of taking them and haven’t seen any anomalous things yet.

The error margin is tiny and the benefits to the output are huge. My brain has more trouble accurately portraying things. This is not much of a problem.

Reality is really transient and inconsistent anyway.

Are you suggesting that if you have a product that performs better than the previous version 99.999999% of the time, but that 0.000001% of the time it performs terribly, in your opinion, the new version is worse?

Yes that’s the correct explanation: 1/120 speed for 220mm focal length equivalent is far too slow, at least 1 EV. The stabilization is probably not on par with big pro lenses and SLR so you might offset 1 more EV. Now the way the AI is fixing this seems obviously wrong but it’s “best effort”. I’m guessing it has taken several pictures and merged them. This can’t be right 100% of the time. Maybe they should add a “no smart self-similarity merges” option, I would use it most of the time.

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