iPhone Camera

PROFESSIONAL RESULTS IN YOUR HANDS 

- Benjamin Kerry & Gavin Lenaghan

Have you recently lifted your new iPhone X out of its box and started excitedly snapping selfies with it, only to be... put offby the results? No, not because the photos are too bad, but because they are too good. The iPhone X has made it easier to take visually authentic selfies with little fuss - and that’s made iPhone X users more self-conscious about their looks. The phone can excel better than its predecessors in capturing scenery photos, too; might we be looking at the best camera system ever?

A SHORT HISTORY OF iPHONE CAMERA TECHNOLOGY

iPhones have long been renowned for the quality of their cameras - to the extent that much professional video has been captured to impressive effect with iPhones much older than the X. However, this reputation did develop gradually; you might recall that the very first iPhone back in 2007 featured just one camera, a 2-megapixel shooter on the back. It wasn’t until the iPhone 4 in 2010 that Apple added a front-facing camera and the selfie generation beckoned...

Unsurprisingly given its age, the iPhone 4’s selfie camera doesn’t quite stand up to its successors’ today, producing a comparatively murkylooking image taken indoors by Mashable in a recent test. Low-light scenes are particularly taxing for iPhone cameras to capture accurately. To demonstrate, Mashable has posted sideby-side shots showing how successive iPhone cameras have become gradually more capable of dissipating graininess in evening photos of the Empire State Building.

THE iPHONE X PASSES THE TEST WITH FLYING - AND ACCURATE - COLORS