There is a new camera sensor in the iPhone 14 Pro. For the first time, an iPhone has a high-resolution main camera sensor, and the best thing about it is that you don't have to take a lot of pictures. You can, but take your phone's storage space One of the best features of this sensor is the 12MIPs. The central portion of the main camera sensor can be used to crop in and mimic the effect of a 48mm-equivalent telephoto lens. It's all done. It is simple but it is a big deal.
I didn't expect to like the zoom. It feels close to digital zoom for a number of reasons. When you zoom in on a portion of an image, you don't get the benefits of extra space or light. A portion of the full image is magnified by your phone. To get the image back up to the original resolution, it has to make some guesses about what is missing, and things get watercolor-y fast.
You are getting a full-resolution image with this crop because it uses all the 12MPs at the center.
Even though digital zoom has gotten better recently by using computational tricks, I would rather stick with the old fashioned way of doing things. This crop to 2x uses all the 12MPs at the center of the sensor, so you're getting a full-resolution image, just without the pixel binning tricks that are available. It isn't necessary to fill in any missing information because it's all there.
The 1x and 2x are in the night mode. You have to look closely to see the difference between the 1x and the 2x images.
I was hesitant to use it due to the fact that it's designed for binning. By default, it increases light sensitivity and provides a 12-megapixel image from that sensor. This design benefits the 2x crop. I don't like missing out on things like that.
There is not much of a tradeoff between the 2x crop and the full image because the difference in color and detail is so small. The 1x lens is the best choice for night sight photos because they need more exposure time.
The picture was taken with a zoom.
The detail is at full crop. It's better than digital zoom.
The 2x zoom is at its best in good lighting. The difference between the 1x main lens and the 2x main lens is usually not important if you are shooting a landscape or something far away. For subjects in close quarters, I like it better than either the 1x or the 77mm equivalent 3x lens. Apple made the new focal length default when you turned on portrait mode and I think that was a very smart move. A common belief among photographers is that a 50mm lens has a field of view similar to the human eye.
In portrait mode, the main camera feels a little too wide and the 3x lens feels a little too tight. A person is sitting across a table from you. You can see their eyes and nostrils with the 3x lens. A lot of your surroundings are behind you at 1x. Sometimes you want to put more focus on the person. The goldilocks option is 2x.
If you used the main camera without punching in, the photos in portrait mode look worse than they do. With so much more in the background, 1x portraits can look like cardboard cutouts, which ruins the illusion of using a bigger sensor and lens.
A little over 1/3.
The 2x crop mode is interesting to nerds like me, but will likely go unrecognized by most people. The 2x crop will become the new normal view for portrait mode photos if Apple makes its 48-megapixel sensor standard. It is possible that people will notice that they don't have to back away from their subject as much as with the 3x, but mostly, they will just go on and take photos.
That is wonderful! A lot of complex processes are hidden from view to give you the best possible photo when you press the shutter button. Over the next few years, you will see a lot more mid-tele photo portrait mode photos in your social media feeds. I know I will post a lot of them.
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