These selfies are among the most natural ones we've seen, and we like the iPhone's processing on this camera.
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The HDR isn't as aggressive on many of the Android phones, and it does help for the rather natural and balanced look.
The 12MP selfies are exemplary - high in detail and contrast, with great colors and well-handled noise. You can also switch between those two modes manually. If you hold the phone in portrait orientation, selfies are cropped to 7MP to provide a tighter framing but rotate the phone horizontally, and you get more of the scene with the phone automatically switching to the wider 12MP mode.
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Selfie qualityĪpple offers two Field-of-View modes on the selfie camera - the slightly zoomed-in 7MP crop that is equivalent to a 30mm field of view and the full 12MP mode, which has a 23mm equivalent FoV. You can get similar photos with the regular iPhone 12, and the only thing you need to add is some Auto Enhance magic in the Gallery app. Yes, Night Mode for Portraits is a powerful new feature, but it's not enough to sell you the 12 Pro over the iPhone 12. Put those default portraits to Photo's Auto Enhance feature, and you'd end up with a pretty similar image to iPhone 12 Pro's Portrait Night Mode. Pixel peepers will find holes in the iPhone 12 depth map, but not as large as you would have guessed, and for the average user - they are relatively indistinguishable.īut here is the kicker.
The photos are obviously a bit darker and somewhat desaturated but are mostly on par as far as detail and separation are concerned. While it indeed uses the scanner, we believed the iPhone 12 and "its A14 computational photography" should be able to do similar photos with the main camera even if Night Mode is not available.Īnd well, the iPhone 12's Portrait Mode really puts up a good fight. We were skeptical about the Portrait Night Mode dependence on the LiDAR Scanner. Both are good but don't expect miracles when the light is really scarce. The brighter one has an additional light source from the side, while the last one has only the Christmas lights and nothing else. The next two photos are taken indoors but with different light sources. The separation is also quite competent, and the iPhone 12 Pro will take great portraits shots with the right background. In the first photo, you can notice the restored highlights in the background, which were then proficiently defocused. Overall, some good portrait shots, indeed.Īnd here are some more portraits. The separation is very good given the conditions, the contrast is nice, and the colors are very well preserved. When using the Portrait Night Mode mode the way it was intended, the photos turned out great. They may not be super detailed, but they do impress with separation and bokeh. And it turned out pretty good - the first three photos are excellent. We wanted to test its depth map complexity. You can tweak this up to 10s, but we don't think your subject can stay still for that long.Īnyway, first we tried the Night Mode Portrait on non-human subjects, plants in this case.
As we mentioned, those are shot on the primary camera, and the phone usually chooses 1s or 2s exposure.
Now, let's look at some Night Mode portraits. The last portrait was taken with the primary camera, and while it is more detailed, the separation isn't as impressive as one would have thought given the promise of the LiDAR tech inside the phone. For the first time ever, these artsy photos don't look good just on the official samples, but we were also able to shoot some by ourselves, from the first attempt at that. The improved depth map does matter a lot when applying portrait effects, though.
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And once the light becomes less than ideal, the resolved detail drops dramatically (see the last photo in the series below). While the subject separation is outstanding and the defocused parts are quite appealing, the photos aren't that detailed, and they are even a bit noisy. So, the portraits shot with the tele camera are good, but not great. But once you tap on that, the camera will switch to the primary one. If you switch to Portrait mode - it always defaults on 2x zoom - and if it's dark, you will see the Night Mode icon appear. Also, thanks to the LiDAR being independent of the available light, the iPhone 12 Pro can again do Night Mode portraits.Īnd before we go any further, one thing should be very clear - the Night Mode portraits work only on the main camera. The LiDAR Scanner is of massive help here as it creates an incredibly detailed depth map for the camera to use, and subject separation is supposed to be class-leading. The Portraits on the iPhone 12 Pro are shot with the telephoto camera by default, but you can switch to the main snapper if you need a wider photo.