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21 pointsjakewalker10 comments

I was pretty shocked at how noisy the 100% images were. That much noise[1] in broad daylight (in spite of some very aggressive noise reduction) is surprising.

[1]100% crop from the photo on the landing page http://i.imgur.com/2lbzB7G.jpg

With a heavy duty tripod, probably studio quality lighting and diffusers by a professional photographer with ISO at 50. None the less, the crispness is great.

I will never trust photo shoots done by the manufacturer. They could be shot under ideal conditions and picked out of thousands of photos. Or even faked like Nokia did with their video.

The picture of the jellyfish seems to be underwater. Do you think this means it is waterproof, not actually taken with it, or something else?

It was taken at the Monterey Bay Aquarium: http://montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com/post/59698680553/heade...

I'm looking forward to some high quality bathroom mirror self shots!

by a professional photographer

The one thing to note here is that an iPhone doesn't have any UI to manually control settings a professional photographer might change like shutter speed, aperture and ISO. It only has a rudimentary interface to change the focus and most of the times I've seen people take photos won their iPhones, they rarely tap to set the focus and rely on the autofocus.

The iPhone camera is definitely not holding anyone back from shooting pictures of "professional photographer" quality and I for one am glad to see so many people have access to something that allows for great photos to be taken without needing to know anything and everything about how cameras work.

> It only has a rudimentary interface to change the focus and most of the times I've seen people take photos won their iPhones, they rarely tap to set the focus and rely on the autofocus.

The "interface to change the focus", AFAIK, is just an interface to change the reference point for the autofocus, so even if you "tap to set the focus" you are still relying on the autofocus.

Using a professional-level camera won't make you a professional photographer either (i.e. your pictures won't be this good if you're not good at taking pictures either way.) Comparing how the pictures look when taken by someone who knows how to take pictures is really the only way to... compare how pictures look.

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