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iPhone 7 Camera Review: Rwanda

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39 pointsdavidbarker9 comments

> Note: It does find “dog” with no problem, but it does not yet find “gorilla.”

This is probably intentional, to avoid embarrasing false-positives: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33347866

This is a great review to see how pictures turn out in real-life but there is absolutely no scientific method or objective measure in their efforts.

You need a standard to compare things.

I stopped watching at "With the new release of telephoto lens, what is the best location to test it? Africa". That makes zero sense to me.

There are and will be plenty of reviews with in-depth comparison shots. Ars Technica already has a few and I'm sure there will be more to follow. This however is something quite different which makes it a great review.

They could have done iPhone 6s vs. iPhone 7 photos, side-by-side but they didn't.

I can't tell if the camera is great or the pictures look great because of the location. What is the point of this review?

It should be titled "iPhone 7 sample photos & videos taken at a spectacular location."

The point of the location is to make it interesting. Sure, he can go out in any local town and take a bunch of photos of normal stuff, but that would be pretty boring. This type of review is meant to both test the hardware, and be an interesting adventure / trip. You see them frequently switching between 1x and 2x, which I spent a lot of time rewinding and re-watching as someone who does a lot of travel photography through only my phone.

Let them have some fun...

> I stopped watching at "With the new release of telephoto lens, what is the best location to test it? Africa". That makes zero sense to me.

That was likely an opinion rather than an authoritative statement.

Presumably the trip was planned ages ago, and there was a talk with someone from Apple marketing about sponsoring the trip. Apple needs some good news after the jack event.

That is some seriously seriously ugly bokeh in the image of Mariyane. As someone who has won three emmys for production, I would never present an image like that. The dynamic range however, is really great.

Agreed. That's the kind of image that will be greatly enhanced by the faked software bokeh coming in a software update soon.

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