foreign look at this this is the three camera
cluster introduced first on the iPhone 11 Pro this is the camera cluster on the
iPhone 12 Pro here's the 13 Pro and this
is the camera cluster on the new iPhone 14 pro it's so big
you know at this rate Apple's going to be making that Samsung phone the failed
one the camera phone with the zoom lens remember that thing
but the camera bump isn't the only thing that got bigger on the iPhone 14 pro the
notch did too in a way so that means that the most significant updates for
the premium phone are the camera and the display let's try them out and see if
they're a worthy update for the Pro
While most people care about the cameras on their iPhone the thing I'm most
excited about with the iPhone 14 pro is the display it's actually a major step
forward in a whole lot of respects
firstly it's a way better phone to film videos like these Outdoors typical Max
brightness remains at a thousand nits but HDR brightness has gone up to 1600
nits and if you go outside on a bright sunny day like today the ambient light
sensor can boost this OLED up to 2 000
nits though this will definitely eat battery but there's no more squinting at
the screen keeping it clean so emails remain legible look at it compared to an
iPhone 13 Pro wait why is it that every time I try to do a brightness comparison
it always end up looking the same seven last year too
but we'll also eat up the battery is the brand new always-on screen along a
feature on OLED equipped Android phones Apple's finally brought it here too
which is perfect timing thanks to the home screen improvements added to iOS
16. clock notification weather and
calendar widgets are all visible without having to touch your phone
what I love the most is the fact that it shows Apple Maps turn-by-turn navigation
usually when navigating the screen is completely black until your next
Direction prompt after which it stays on for a long time be always on screen
however still shows direction information that's really handy and
could save battery on a long trip even though unfortunately uh it won't
because Apple went all the way in their
implementation of the always on screen when active or asleep it looks as if I
dimmed the screen all the way to its dimmest setting in dark mode and then
just left it on it's quite jarring but because alongside the information the
wallpaper remains on of course there's more going on underneath to reduce the
impact Apple slows down the screen to one Hertz and they claim to do some
trickery to make skin tones and portrait wallpapers stay accurate it kind of
looks like an unlit slide photo now the penalty in my usage is almost a day of
use and that makes me think that Apple may have gone a bit too far Android
phones let their screens go completely black showing only the pertinent time
widget and notification information when it's sleep that goes a long way at
making the phone appear off allowing you to be more present I think the easy
solution for the iPhone is a wallpaper on offsetting
foreign I've long thought that software these
days isn't magical I largely blame flat design for that but out of the blue
Apple has given us the dynamic Island it's one of those features that when you
see it you wonder why nobody's thought of it before
conceptually it's a software Embrace of the face ID system cutout we were first
introduced to with the notch on the iPhone 10. now though the sensor array
and front camera remain in a black monolithic pill then depending on what
background task you have running on the phone the island expands and splits to
give you increased information and access this speaker girl is just gonna get
filled with lint it's so thin
it's very lovely and Lively but also a
start I think it's slow kind of reminds
me of the iOS 7 animations that made people sick I do really love how alive
it feels and looks but I'd rather not
have to wait to use it the dynamic Island should make something
as simple as changing a song easier but it doesn't there are two methods of
interaction simply tapping on the island will open the associated app but long
pressing inflates the island into a widget I think this is backwards because
most of the time I don't want to leave what I'm doing and tapping is easier I
love how face ID registration is integrated into it which makes sense and
I'm hoping they use this for more in the future for example notifications still
appear as blurred rectangles below the island and airpod pairing is still a
white panel at the bottom of the screen I do worry how long the dynamic island
is going to remain exclusive to the pro iPhones because that might prevent it
from expanding its capability as much as I'm hoping developers are not going to
look for new ways to use this feature if the install base is a small exclusive
group of wealthy iPhone users now to be
fair face ID did get introduced into the mainstream models after only a year and
they should do that here too so I guess the dynamic Island on its own isn't
enough to Warrant an upgrade but I do love it and you will too if you get one
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its camera because I I can't go over how huge this is I mean it extends all the
way past the halfway point of the back of the phone now what's driving this
change is an all-new much larger 48
megapixel sensor Apple uses the extra pixels for many
different things because Apple now employs pixel binning for the first time
it takes 4 pixels and combines them into one so normal compressed photos from the
camera are still saved at 12 megapixels second the extra pixels enable a two
times Zoom option by cropping 48 megapixels into 12. third the extra
pixels allow for a gimbal-like action mode for video resolution drops to 2.8 K
but footage gets more stable and finally the extra pixels are accessible if you
shoot in the 48 megapixel Pro raw mode though those files can balloon past 100
megabytes in size so if you only get a
128 Gigabyte version that comes to about a thousand photos and that's including
no prores video either oh yeah and then try getting all those photos and videos
off it
so how is it I compared the 14 pro to a
bunch of different cameras the 13 and 11 Pro a pixel 6 Pro and two real cameras
here's what I've learned the low light improvements on the new iPhone help
shorten the shutter speed not reduce noise in daylight compressed photos of
all the iPhones look heavily sharpened and it's hard to tell the difference
between the newer and older phones I really found myself preferring the
processing that the pixel 6 does photos taken in Pro raw are much better
especially if you do the adjustments yourself if you are getting an iPhone 14
pro for the camera use prora especially
the 48 megapixel mode if you can
they do look so much better I took
photos alongside the Sony zve E10 and
Ricoh gr3 they are very nice compact 800
aps-c cameras certainly they're more cumbersome to Lug
around than simply an iPhone in your pocket but I noticed holding these that
they're way more fun to photograph with the camera ergonomics compel you to find
and snap that next photo that's something I have yet to feel with the
iPhone like I never take iPhotos
I'm still impressed with the photos you can get on the iPhone 14 pro now it
takes great video but a dedicated video camera is better it takes great still
photos but a dedicated still camera is better it takes great action video but a
dedicated gimbal is better it's a jackable trades and a master of none
really really great if you're in a pinch but unless Apple starts putting in
lenses like these we're getting to the limits
if you have an iPhone 12 in newer though I don't think you should upgrade as
you'll still be getting the benefits of prora the 48 megapixel photos Aren't
Enough unless you're a glutton for selfies because the autofocus on the
front camera is a game changer though I think of regular 14 gets that too the
other Improvement the iPhone 14 pro gets is the a16 chip in my tests it's not
significantly more powerful than an a15 powered 13 Pro shaving only 20 seconds
off a Lightroom export and showing mild improvements in geekbench It's not
nothing and it still miles ahead of the 6 Pro and if you want the best
performance in genshin Impact get an iPhone 13. so it's not worth an upgrade
if you're coming from anything newer than an a13
every iPhone release at least I'm reflecting on my waning enthusiasm it
feels like gone are the days of truly Innovative and exciting updates and
changes to the phone but it's actually not true there have been really sizable
jumps between each generation even taking photos on this old iPhone 11 Pro
feels like a trip back in time with the absence of prores and pro raw options if
you are upgrading from one of these you are going to notice a lot of differences
can be attributed to the premium iPhone's increased price used to be that
all the Innovations added to the iPhone get added to the latest model that
everyone ends up buying and that used to cost 650 dollars to get the best the
iPhone has to offer today you have to pay significantly more in this case a
thousand dollars and it's not clear anymore when those Innovations will
trickle down so far I haven't thought any of these features are worth
operating to alone but what if you put them together well compared to the
standard model the pro gets a lot more features this year and the price
difference between it and the standard model is only two hundred dollars every
year is a good year to get a pro but you don't need to get a pro every year if
you're coming from an 11 Pro then yes this is a great option if not maybe just
replace the battery thanks Andy for taking high quality photos of this Mac
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I'm curious are you the type of person who just takes photos exclusively with
an iPhone comment low what that's like why do you do that
do you miss having a camera