iPhone 15 Pro Max Lens vs Pro Lens
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2023
- How does the new iPhone 15 Pro Max's 120mm Lens compare to a full frame professional lens? In this video we do some side by side comparisons to find out the answer to this question. I review the images in Adobe Lightroom and give my thoughts on the performance of these two lenses. I hope you enjoy this iPhone vs Pro lens comparison!
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Really impressive comparison! Hard to ignore how close the phone is to the camera.
Nice comparison! It's fascinating to see how far phone cameras has gone with those tiny lenses
The actual camera has not improved much.. it's all a lie. The phone adds fake AI optical effects, and actually has an extremely low resolution anywhere outside of the set focal length for that lens. It's complete trash.
@@ninerlivesFor social media is good enough
Would like to mention the photos of the moss and leaves were a digital zoom off the main sensor as evident by the f 1.8 fixed aperture. This is due to the objects being too close for that lens so the camera app switches to main to compensate.
Good call... I didn't realize it was doing that. Now I know, thanks!
@@ZJMichaels Would love to see a comparison of the main iPhone 15 pro lens vs Sony camera.
thats even more impressive, i hope androids get a zoom as good as apples, rivaling actual cameras is an achievement
@@nexuhs. Hm? Android has been beating Apple when ti comes to zoom for years. Pixel 8 pro has a 48mp 120mm and Xiaomi also has great zoom cameras.
I think using the f/4 lens was a good decision as the small sensor sizes in smartphones mean they aren’t actually 1.8 or 2.8 apertures. On face value all the photos look decent but when you start your post process, that's when the real camera shines as those files will have way more detail to play around with. None the less we are comparing phone cameras with actual cameras and lenses here and that in itself is commendable.
Yeah the Sony files definitely have a lot more leeway when it comes to editing. Might be interesting to do an editing comparison at some point
@@ZJMichaelsI think it would be a good video and part of it shooting and editing proraw with the iPhone.
Great review and useful comparison, thank you
You should used the 48MP max HEIF on the iPhone 15 pro max.
Great video. Just picked mine up. Thanks for your comparison!
Awesome, enjoy the new phone!
It's amazing what a smartphone can do. Nice video.
Wow verry nice video, thankssss
The fact that people are even comparing these two is incredible in itself. They have gotten to the point where even professional photographers would struggle to tell the difference.
You always bring the best comparisons, Mr. Michael! Truly amazing! It would be great if you could do a main lens full resolution comparison in the future if you want to.
Also, I believe in this 6:20 moss shot and the leaf shot 7:06, the iPhone didn’t switched to the telephoto lens and zoomed in digitally due to the subject being too close, that’s why those shots looked mushy.
nice video! we'd love some camera reviews with the sandmarc lenses pls
I currently have a review of the Sandmarc macro lens on the channel. I do plan on reviewing some more of them at some point
You are amazing. That's a true pro-level review. Thank you. But I would love also to check for us some RAW from the main camera, the reason is the main sensor seems to be much bigger.
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Nice comparison!
iphone just over brightens & adds temperature on everything. I feel like it's just good for sharing photos/videos on social media.
Great video! I noticed in LR the iPhone moss and leaf photos had the 6.86mm (1x) lens, compared to 15.66mm (5x) on the others. Explains why there was such a stark contrast in quality for those images!
Good catch! I didn't notice that when going through the images. I had it set to the 5x lens when shooting, but I guess it auto switched due to the focus distance or available light... annoying that it switches lenses like that without any indicator
@@ZJMichaels I hate this ”feature”. You should be able to at least switch it back or turn off automatic switching on a pro phone. Imagine you were shooting these pictures for print and now the detail is not there.
@MarkusAT I totally agree. There should be an option to turn it off. There should also be some warning or indicator on the screen when it switches
Came here to point the same. These two shots were not on 5x iPhone optics. I hate when iPhone auto switches the lens like this. Also there are other pro camera apps that would allow you to dial down f-stop and shutter speed. I noticed Sony has shots with 1 sec shutter open, gathering much light, while iPhone seems like struggling to put more light in with shorter exposure.
There is a preserve “Macro Control” option in Setting > Camera > Preserve Settings. I would assume that would stop lenses from switching during macro shots like the moss shot.
For social media the iPhone does well with landscapes and general street/travel photos for viewing images on a small screen at arms length.
The difference of the DSLR/Mirrorless cameras comes when you fit a sports lens, e.g. 200-600mm, and use focus tracking for birds in flight, sports events, race cars, or planes/jets, where iPhone photos are a pixelated, out of focus, blurry mess with a subject that’s indistinguishable.
Apparently you don’t know how to take those types of photos with an iPhone then because you are 100% wrong.
@@robhughes8516His points are 85% right actually. When push comes to shove, every photographer knows that a mirrorless is in a different league to ANY phone, but phones can be brilliant tools in their various Pro modes, and open to excellent editing potential. The key point is this though. When did anyone last put a mirrorless camera in their pocket and carry it around with them all day for any photo or video opportunity that arises?. Some pro photographers do carry phones around with them for sure. Not to replace their mirrorless, but to fill in those spontaneous shots gaps. Both can be incredible devices nowadays in their own way. They can compliment one another.
Thanks.
Really onest comparison. 👍
Good Job mate.
P.S. Price of the Sony and Lens?
Nice comparison! If anything adjust images for similar brightness before comparing?
Good suggestion, thanks!
Great video. I'd actually disagree with some of your assessments but ultimately it doesn't matter - it shows how far did the iPhone camera go.
Same. Phone was actually a lot better in a lot of those where he leaned towards camera. 🤷♂️ maybe it didn’t translate well in the video, but…..none the less, still a great video.
Thank you for your time and your video. That being said. The shots where you said they looked a little soft. You were shooting at f8 and the iPhone is a 2.8. In that regard I can’t agree. Of course the f8 is gonna have more detail
I noticed with the vine/leaves shot the iphone switched back to the 1x cam based on the LR metadata, probably should use LR mobile to manually take the shots since the stock camera app usually preps images for the everyday shooter (even when shooting RAW).
Yeah some other folks mentioned that as well. I had no idea it was auto switching lenses like that, but at least now I know to look out for that.
классное видео, а у вас есть возможность сравнить пиксель 7 про?
It’s crazy to see what a phone can do these days.. I’m pretty impressed with the iPhones camera, honestly I expected worse results from the iPhone. Now imagine if Apple increases the size of the sensor in a few years like other Chinese phone makers do today. It’s gonna be a game changer.
just a thing I noticed - on your second two with the tree and the moss, the phone actually cropped into its main sensor (focal length diff between the first shot and second one in Lightroom info) . Hence the lower sharpness .
Yeah I’m not a fan of the auto switching feature. I had no idea that was even happening at the time! Uggg
To see those lens and filters. Do a video using them vs not using them. For each shot use the best which the accessories have even if it means using multiple accessories at the same time as compared to just the phone.
Great review! But I would like to see a comparison of this zoom for portraits between the Sony camera, iPhone 15 pro max and s23ultra. Could you do this?
Thanks! I don’t really do a lot of portraiture shots… mainly just shoot landscapes. I am planning to compare the 15 pro max and s23ultra soon though
While you did shoot in ProRAW, and the file does say .DNG, it's not pure RAW. It's edited. If you want to make things fair, you have to disable all the additional edits the iPhone made on its pictures, that way it would be a true RAW vs RAW comparison.
Do comparison with Samsung 23ultra 10x telephoto with pro camera
can you edit apple color to be close to sony color.
Now try this with a Sony A7R5, in low light, zoomed into 200%. Then try pushing and pulling the files around in LR and then I think we'll see how phones still have a way to go. Saying that....the number of situations where a phone can compete is getting higher each year. I wonder how long it'll before you basically can't tell at all. Perhaps another 3-5 years?
using a third party app like lightroom for iPhone stops the lenses from switching automatically without you knowing. it also lets you shoot regular RAW which would be a much more interesting comparison than ProRAW imo!
3:41 pilot fly is like “what in the world wide sports is this?!!?”
Haha!
Thanks for the great video - the YT Algo brought it to me.
Better than the Video about the iPhone is that we'll be at your location soon to see the trolls, the seahawks, pike place and so on...😁
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Apple should make a camera too
Did you shoot raw on the iPhone?
Yep!
Damn good for a 1400 phone vs a 4000 full frame setup. The Sony 70-200 Macro Zoom has a masterclass macro design.
this phone is insane! 🔥iPhone 15 Pro Max probably the best and the most powerful smartphone this year!
Apple always did a very good job. that pushed me and my friends switching from Android to iOS
amazing to see how a 1k phone camera competes with a dedicated 3k camera setup. Give it some more time and the AI might overtake these setups.
Don't get me wrong - I love my Sony a7 iv, but it's awesome to have another great backup camera in your pockets everytime! ;)
Great video!! Grazy results from the iphone!😨 oufcorse sony has a bigger sensor, but for a phone its the best you can get!🔥 keep on going mate!! Amazing content, comparing those gadgets is amazing!🔥
It is still not comparable but good enough for vlog.
NICE VIDEO? Why you didn't zoom in the picture way more?
100% zoom is enough pixel peeping for me :)
@@ZJMichaels for you, but not very obvious in the video. next time zoom in more in the editor so we can easily notice the difference
So given enough light. They are comparable
Nice video! One thing to note tho, the iphone automaticly switches lens when it's getting darker (annoying i know) to get a lower ISO and higher shutter speed since the other lenses have larger apertures. So both shots of the moss and plants are actually digital 120mm crops from the 24mm lens. So the resolution is wayyyyyyy lower than 12mp.
Thanks for the info! Yeah the auto switching thing is definitely annoying
Something is off with the iPhone shots, my 14 gets these shots a lot better but great video with details either way
Something else to consider with the iPhone is that the main lens can shoot in 24 and 48 megapixels. I really wish the 120mm did as well.
Maybe that’ll happen with a future iPhone
In photos iphone doesn’t come even close to real camera only in video, I’m designer when I open a iPhone photo there don’t even exist pixels it’s a mix of strange computing you can’t properly edit a photo like that, iPhone fotos ok for social media and that’s it.
Amazing video,I phone is the king of all telfon
Was expecting a much bigger gap Vs Full Frame Camera.
Only that lens is 2000€, 800gr .
Sony ❤
Nice video. However, shooting in RAW wasn’t such a good idea because of the post edit. How can you ensure that one edit is as good as the next? These photos should have been shot in JPEG WITHOUT any editing…
In final analysis, to keep and share souvenirs, the iPhone is more than adequate. What surprised me was the difference between certain photos, one being considerably lighter than the Sony…
nice
Nice🎉
Thanks 🤗
Для маленького телефона хорошие снимки.
phone camera never beat the any pro cameras
In the end in printed images - even big prints - it will be hard to discern a difference. Obviously bokeh will be a different story, but "normal" photos have become so good on phones.
I thought every iPhone picture beat the Sony. The troll was the closest. Truly amazing that you can carry that in your pocket. If you fall out in the forest and break your leg, the iPhone satellite SOS will save you; otherwise you’ll die clutching your precious Sony.
Keep in mind apple said their lens was F2.0 while your Sony was F4.5 which is probably why the closer images were more in focus. Still impressive considering you had to pixel-peep
Giving you a like for your mosquito bite 😉
Haha thanks
nice to know, but please turn on your grid
I will not buy a pro max anymore. Too big and heavy.
I hope they will add the 5x in the iPhone 17 or 18 too.
Right
The lense 200mm cost over $4000, that’s more expensive than the iPhone 15 pro max 1T, of course the Sony camera that have the best lens will win.
Carl Zeiss lens will blow the iPhone out of the water. Haha
iPhone looks better I won’t waste my money on the Sony thanks
Let's add an se23ultra 1tb in this
Sorry but the apple pics looked better in every pic. Just saying
I saw a video from two other pro photographers and they trashed the 15PM, clearly the phone doesn't really have a 120mm lense and it's mediocre compared to the 14PM.
I will not be upgrading my iPhone but since the 13PM, Apple is just using tactics to make people believe they're make their phones better, but in reality? They're worst. Worst back glass, not really that many lenses, I mean.......garbage, pure garbage. So, I'll keep this mediocre 13 Pro Max for another year.
My iPhone replace my Camera. So sad