{"id":34159,"date":"2019-10-17T09:34:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T16:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=34159"},"modified":"2019-10-31T07:52:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T14:52:02","slug":"iphone-pro-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2019\/10\/17\/iphone-pro-part-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Pro – Part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"

The standard lens.<\/i><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for an index of all iPhone articles.<\/i>
\nHere’s an index of the iPhone 11 Pro pieces:<\/p>\n

Part I<\/a> – The revolution realized
\nPart II<\/a> – Upgrading
\nPart III<\/a> – The ultrawide lens
\nPart IV<\/a> – The Normal lens
\nPart V<\/a> – The Telephoto lens
\nPart VI<\/a> – The Focos app
\nPart VII<\/a> – Quirks and anomalies
\nPart VIII<\/a> – HDR and the Night Mode
\nPart IX<\/a> – The digital zoom function
\nPart X<\/a> – A lens correction profile for the ultrawide optic<\/p>\n


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When I was a lad, happily snapping away with my Leica, a 35mm lens was the street lens to have. Not too wide, not too long, small and fast, it was just the ticket for my preferred genre. Times have changed as the ‘standard’ lens for the iPhone Pro is just 26mm long in Full Frame Equivalent terms. That used to be seriously wide, meaning close subject distances, but with the inherently stealthy nature of a cellphone it works well for street action. Pixel peeping imports from the three iPhone Pro lenses in Lightroom, it’s just about discernible that the 1X or Standard lens has the best micro contrast of the three, but that’s barely distinguishable on my 30″ Apple Cinema Display (yes, old tech, but still superb).<\/p>\n

I find that just a tad of sharpening helps matters along with all the lenses when importing images to LR, and here are my preferred settings:<\/p>\n


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The definition, even in big enlargements , is extraordinary. Easily equal to anything from FF or MFT hardware.<\/p>\n

Here’s an image from the full frame:<\/p>\n


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And here’s a 1:1 enlargement, meaning a 30″ wide print – straight out of camera, no post-processing:<\/p>\n


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There, in one prosaic image, you have the story of the demise of MFT, APS-C and most FF writ large. The iPhone effortlessly equals what they can deliver, and in high contrast situations its ‘always on’ HDR processing is streets ahead of the big hardware. Add a little sharpening on import to LR and the resolution in the image is breathtaking.<\/p>\n

Here are some snaps taken with the standard lens:<\/p>\n


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\nNo flare with the sun in the image. Auto HDR does its magic here.<\/p>\n

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\nGatorade man. Using the 1X lens with 2X digital zoom.<\/p>\n

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\nBabe. Outstanding control of dynamic range. This is what ‘computational photography’ is all about.<\/p>\n

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\nAnother high dynamic range image, tamed by the iPhone’s processing.<\/p>\n

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\nArtsy fartsy with color removed and grain added in LR.<\/p>\n

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\nStraight out of camera. No need for those shadows and highlights sliders in LR.<\/p>\n

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In the iPhone 7, HDR was a switchable option. It’s on all the time in iPhone 11 Pro, there when it’s needed. Washed out highlights and heavy post processing, like you are used to with your traditional hardware, are things of the past. You can spend all your time on clicking the button, wasting none stuck in front of a computer display trying to get Photoshop or whatever to fix the issues. The standard lens in the iPhone 11 Pro, along with the brilliant on board image processing, are wonders of the designers’ art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The standard lens. Click here for an index of all iPhone articles. Here’s an index of the iPhone 11 Pro pieces: Part I – The revolution realized Part II – Upgrading Part III – The ultrawide lens Part IV – The Normal lens Part V – The Telephoto lens Part VI – The Focos app … Continue reading iPhone Pro – Part IV<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone-4s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34336,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34159\/revisions\/34336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}