Thanksgiving is coming.

iPhone 6, the first and last at ISO 32, the middle one at ISO 125. I have no idea how the iPhone determines the ISO to use, but who cares with image quality like this? These easily print 13″ x 19″, as the below illustrates, and are straight out of the phone, with no processing.

These beautiful pumpkins and gourd were snapped at the local grocery store. Apple’s thorough design attention makes a nonesense of all the high pixel count sensors in regular cameras. The sensor is but 8mp, but you would never guess that from the outstanding image quaity. Too bad Apple does not make cameras.

Even at ‘nose in print’ distances the original print is tack sharp and, quite frankly, an image from my massive Nikon D3x FF DSLR could not be any better. For that matter, most people are not serious photographers and care not one whit for such technical mumbo jumbo in any case, and this image needs no gear excuses. Tell a ‘photographer’ viewer it’s from an iPhone and the reaction will be one of incredulity. The print was made on the HP DesignJet 90 dye printer on HP Glossy paper, still the best printer/paper combination out there if you care about deep blacks and lustrous colors.