I find any iPhone "photograph" falls apart if printed above 7X5. The quality seems to be going in reverse too: recent iPhones rely more and more on computational tricks to mask the still crappy tiny sensors and the fact that you cannot bend the laws of physics with tiny lenses.
I find any iPhone "photograph" falls apart if printed above 7X5. The quality seems to be going in reverse too: recent iPhones rely more and more on computational tricks to mask the still crappy tiny sensors and the fact that you cannot bend the laws of physics with tiny lenses.
I think the "computational photography" thing is the issue. iPhone photos look GREAT at iPhone size and many times far better based on "computational conformity" than those taken on a real camera but it makes them look kind of fake at larger sizes and very brittle in terms of even moderate adjustments. They sort of all look the same to me with some notion of "what well exposed photograph should look like" at small sizes.
I find any iPhone "photograph" falls apart if printed above 7X5. The quality seems to be going in reverse too: recent iPhones rely more and more on computational tricks to mask the still crappy tiny sensors and the fact that you cannot bend the laws of physics with tiny lenses.
I was amazed those old slides taken on a semi-fixed focus, auto-exposure, point and shoot from the late '60s held up so well.
I think the "computational photography" thing is the issue. iPhone photos look GREAT at iPhone size and many times far better based on "computational conformity" than those taken on a real camera but it makes them look kind of fake at larger sizes and very brittle in terms of even moderate adjustments. They sort of all look the same to me with some notion of "what well exposed photograph should look like" at small sizes.