{"id":12318,"date":"2024-09-30T21:10:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T01:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=12318"},"modified":"2024-09-30T21:10:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T01:10:41","slug":"technology-iphone-camera-is-too-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2024\/09\/30\/technology-iphone-camera-is-too-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: iPhone Camera is Too Complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:205,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/thetalkshow\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/26\\\/ep-409&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251103164915\\\/https:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/thetalkshow\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/26\\\/ep-409&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-09 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When I listened to NIlay Patel and John Gruber talk about photographer on<a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/thetalkshow\/2024\/09\/26\/ep-409\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> episode 409 of The Talk Show<\/a>, it became a must that I share some thoughts on where photography has gone after 17 years of iPhone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iPhone Photography has become too complicated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This coming from someone who calls their primary camera a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/canon-eos-r5-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canon R5<\/a> and the every day carry in my messenger bag a <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.hodinkee.com\/products\/leica-q2-ghost-set-by-hodinkee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leica Q2<\/a>. However, I have a dirty secret. As soon as I became fluid enough in photography to understand how to take a photograph, I gave it up and switched my camera to auto. I\u2019ve been shooting full frame manual cameras for 15 years and taking photos for 25 but I turn on my $3500 Canon R5 attached to a $2500 lens and I press the shutter button. I\u2019m not leaving much on the table. Modern auto focus, white balance and sensors are really good. I sometimes regret not dialing aperture up a bit and boosting ISO or matching shutter speed to the race car or using the amazing AF zones on the R5 but<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> I don\u2019t need to<\/a>. I rarely miss the shot and photos are good enough for my scrap book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>iPhone is not my lifestyle camera. It\u2019s the camera I use to send a selfie to my wife, a photo of my dinner to a friend, a barcode of an item I\u2019m price checking or a picture of a <a href=\"https:\/\/untappd.com\/user\/adamchandler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can of beer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Camera Control is great because I didn\u2019t have an action button last year so I click a button, camera opens every time and I use that same button to snap a photo. iPhone usually gets the shot I want no matter what setting I\u2019m on and auto focus Is fast and rarely makes a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>iPhone takes great photos when those photos are viewed on a smartphone sort of like MiniDV footage looks awesome on a Sony Trinitron CRT but looks like garbage on today\u2019s 4K televisions. I don\u2019t like iPhone photos but I never had to like their photos because these are throwaway images that I never look at again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The issue with iPhone 16 Photography is the entire experience is too complicated. A few highlights:<\/p>\n<p>There are 4 ways to open camera on iOS 18 (Lock Screen, action button, camera control, swipe to left)<\/p>\n<p>Camera Settings in iOS Settings has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>21 Options \/ Settings and hundreds of nested settings that are completely overwhelming to anyone that is not an uber nerd<\/li>\n<li>15 Photographic styles<\/li>\n<li>5 Cameras (4 rear + 1 selfie)<\/li>\n<li>RAW, HEIF, JPEG, ProRAW, ProRes, JPEG-XL and more image formats<\/li>\n<li>Hundreds of combinations of resolution \/ frames per second and formats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then the camera app has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Depth of field<\/li>\n<li>Auto focus<\/li>\n<li>White balance<\/li>\n<li>Aspect ratio<\/li>\n<li>Tone control<\/li>\n<li>Delay timer<\/li>\n<li>Live Photos<\/li>\n<li>Flash On\/Off\/Auto<\/li>\n<li>Personal \/ Shared photo libraries<\/li>\n<li>Editing functions for compressed and raw images<\/li>\n<li>Grids<\/li>\n<li>QR Code scanning<\/li>\n<li>Text Detection<\/li>\n<li>Visual Lookup<\/li>\n<li>Slow mo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2026okay I\u2019m going to stop there but you get the point. It\u2019s incredibly complicated to take a photo today on iPhone. One may argue that sure you can still open camera and snap a photo but the issue persists that this is a very tiny sensor. In order to get decent photos (even by smartphone screen standards), you need to fuss a bit with it and that means missing the shot and mastering all of the modern controls. You need to frame the photo (sure) but then setting your style, depth, tone, what lens to use and if not in ideal lighting conditions, having some off-camera flash or using the built in flash or making everyone sit still for 1-3 seconds while a night image is captured. You could also just use ProRaw and do editing in Lightroom to \u201cenhance\u201d and denies then do some edits but you\u2019re still fighting against the small sensor even with all of these things considered.<\/p>\n<p>My iPhone point &amp; shoots look like this:<\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  title=\"IMG_0240.jpeg\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  width=\"640\"  height=\"480\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_0240-jpeg.webp\" ><\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  title=\"IMG_0239.jpeg\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  width=\"480\"  height=\"640\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_0239-jpeg.webp\" ><\/p>\n<p>I can take my time and make them look better but I shouldn\u2019t have to especially when I\u2019m wearing a camera that takes point and shoots like this (unedited and literally no staging or anything fancy just click that power button on and take a photo):<\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  title=\"Matilda 11 Months Old- September 29, 2024- 20240929-L1011625.jpeg\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Matilda 11 Months Old- September 29, 2024- 20240929-L1011625.\"  width=\"428\"  height=\"640\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Matilda-11-Months-Old-September-29-2024-20240929-L1011625-jpeg.webp\" ><\/p>\n<p>Adam stop\u2026you\u2019re comparing a $1750 smartphone (with tax) to a $5900 Leica Q2. Yeah, so? You guys keep saying how amazing the iPhone is at photos and in \u201cauto\u201d mode on both of these cameras, I\u2019d pick the R5 or Leica any day and they\u2019re always with me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m getting off page a bit (sorry).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Instead of Apple making iPhone a better camera, they continue to push more and more complicated ways to take a photo and ask the user to figure out the details and it\u2019s the user\u2019s fault if skin tones are off or if there\u2019s a lot of white noise and then just letting 3rd parties like Adobe fix the small sensor problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What I want from Apple is to be the best point &amp; shoot camera in the world. Get everything perfect and don\u2019t require me to mess around in editing to make a photo usable. I want to spend as little time as possible on my phone. I want to check an email, reply to a message and snap a photo and get back to life using my laptop and every improvement to photos on iPhone requires more time on iPhone to make the photos usable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s unpack that a bit more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When Apple introduced slow-motion videos, I would shoot one of these, plug the iPhone into my Mac and import the video into Final Cut Pro and the video was no longer slow motion. If I export an image from iPhone and AirDrop or Image Capture it to my Mac, the photographic styles, the Live Photo, the hidden details and edits they\u2019re all gone. I just get the original. What about the new post-shooting video modes where you can adjust the audio to be more studio quality? Same thing, it\u2019s something you have to do on iPhone. You can\u2019t export the video and adjust the audio with these same controls on the Mac or in Photos for Mac.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The amount of time I want to spend looking at and manipulating photos on a smartphone screen is 0 seconds. I can\u2019t see the details well enough to know if the edit I\u2019m doing is good or not. I want to see it on a larger screen and while some things like photographic styles have made their way to Photos for Mac in Sequoia, many features have not. So all of the extra features Apple has added to Camera + Photos on iPhone to try and give the user more control and fix the shortcomings of these tiny sensors has become limited to \u201cedit and publish on your smartphone for other people to consume the content also on smartphones&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think the whole industry has moved past anything larger than a 6 inch screen being used to view anything so if I want to master a video for viewing on a 65\u201d 4K TV, I can do that but all of the new stuff iPhone can do to video it shoots is locked into the photos or camera app and 90% of people who look at my Flickr, Blog and YouTube are doing so on mobile phone screens.<\/p>\n<p>So screw me for wanting good photos and videos simply because I like looking at photos and videos on a 32\u201d 4K display or 65\u201d Television?<\/p>\n<p>But Adam, what if your\u2019e just a bad photographer?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I never claimed to be a good photographer, that\u2019s why I take photos with $6,000 cameras in Auto mode but what I want is to grab my camera, snap a photo, import it into Lightroom on my Mac, click \u201cauto\u201d adjustments on the edits screen and export to JPEG that\u2019s my entire workflow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apple hasn\u2019t done much in the physical sensor department to get close to the photographic capabilities of a full frame sensor with a nice long piece of glass attached and, in the computational photography space, they haven\u2019t done much to make the iPhone so good that I can shoot it in auto mode and not feel like I have to pixel peep on a 6\u201d screen to make edits so that I can upload photos to Flickr.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I find the entire iOS 18 + iPhone 16 Pro photography quality no better than any of the iPhones that came before it and the experience of shooting, previewing, editing and publishing photos is harder than ever.<\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  title=\"IMG_0049.jpeg\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  width=\"640\"  height=\"480\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_0049-jpeg.webp\" ><\/p>\n<p>Like, could I make this photo better? Sure but it is a good photo straight out of the iPhone? Not at all. It\u2019s flat, lacks any depth, has pretty muted colors and very little detail unless you\u2019re reading this on a phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t have buyers\u2019 remorse about the iPhone 16 or iOS 18. They\u2019re great together and my email and messages load faster than ever. I am looking forward to diving deep on the video features when I can but every year I buy a new iPhone and every year I hope that photography finally got good enough to leave my Leica at home and I\u2019m continually disappointed. I just want a pocket camera that takes the best photos ever without any fuss and Apple hasn\u2019t cracked that yet. One day they will but it\u2019s been 17 years. Maybe when I\u2019m old?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s disappointing to me is that a billion people think iPhone photos are good. I feel like I\u2019m taking crazy pills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I hope iOS 19 creates a camera mode that is much simpler because the iOS 18 interface is way too hard to use for how little value it adds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what Auto Mode on my Canon R5 can do:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;Eiffel Tower at Night + Tour and Summit&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/53945759707\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  title=\"Eiffel Tower at Night + Tour and Summit\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Eiffel Tower at Night + Tour and Summit.\"  width=\"683\"  height=\"1024\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53945759707_72f1be0f32_b.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>..and here\u2019s iPhone:<\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  title=\"IMG_2617.jpeg\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  width=\"480\"  height=\"640\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2617-jpeg.webp\" ><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m so glad I didn\u2019t spend hours walking to the Eiffel tower and had to deal with that as my photo but looking around, everyone else was taking photos on a phone so either I have exceptionally high standards for what a good photo is or everyone else is completely ignorant to what good photos look like.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have been thinking about this topic since the iPhone 16 Introduction and and it became more solidified&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-3cG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12951,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2025\/07\/30\/photography-adobes-project-indigo-is-amazing-and-hangs-on-my-iphone-16-pro-max\/","url_meta":{"origin":12318,"position":0},"title":"Photography: Adobe&#8217;s Project Indigo is Amazing and Hangs on my iPhone 16 Pro Max","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I never thought I'd be reviewing an iPhone Photography App on this blog but here we are. 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