iPhone 13 Pro Camera Review - Photography & Video

[@iim_human]

Great review. Concise and informative.

[@ShaneBethlehem]

Glad it was helpful!

[@DanPetru.]

Great video! I found that iPhone 13 Pro image quality hasn't improved that much. Photos and videos are still over sharpened, the colors are dull, skin tones are weird(like plastic), white balance is always too cool when shooting indoors. Still no WB adjustments, Photographic Styles are only available on normal photos, not even on portrait mode. The strongest feature is still Apple Pro RAW, which is great, and it's the only format where you can dial the sharpening down(in Lightroom). Cinematic video is cool, it's still gimmicky, but sometimes the results are impressive. ProRes RAW it's nice, as you said, the difference isn't too noticeable when you don't have a lot of movement in the shot, it has that horrible sharpening, but the file size is too crazy for this feature to be useful. I would prefer to have an option to record in a higher bit rate(just like on Filmic Pro). I'm not an Apple hater. I buy the newest iPhone every ear, because I shoot a lot of photos and videos on mobile, so I want to see real upgrades in the image processing department, because the information is there, I see what color data the Pro Raw has. It's ok not to praise Apple on every decision that they make on their new iPhone models. GG, Shane! I've just subscribed.

[@ShaneBethlehem]

Heyo Dan, thank you very much! I very much so agree that Apple Pro RAW is the saving grace for the photos, I find it strange how apple doesn't let the photographic styles integrate with it as all they seem to be is a contrast/sharpness/WB shift which are all super simple in terms of processing unlike the portrait mode. Thank you for such a thorough comment though, everything you're saying is super reasonable. Also thanks for the sub!

[@motebike]

Give it another 5-7 years, then serious camera artists might take notice.

[@ShaneBethlehem]

Well the sensor in this camera is better than many of the point & shoot cameras in the early 2010s, so I can definitely see phone-cameras taking over a bigger portion of the market in the next decade as they near APS-c level quality potentially