It has been a full week because the new iPhone 16 fashions launched, and we have now had sufficient time to provide the Digital camera Management button and the digicam setup a extra in-depth look. We examined the iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max, which have triple-lens rear digicam setups with 48-megapixel Fusion lens, 48-megapixel Extremely Huge lens, and 5x Telephoto lens.
The Digital camera Management button has turned out to be nice for rapidly launching the digicam and snapping images and movies, however the extra in-depth changes that require gentle presses and swiping are tougher to get used to.
It is nonetheless faster to get to those controls within the Digital camera app itself by tapping on the show. Perhaps that is a matter of getting used to the brand new setup, nevertheless it’s additionally tougher to make use of the button in portrait orientation than panorama mode, and lots of people take images in portrait orientation today. On the iPhone 16 Professional Max particularly, the button is simply too low to be comfy to make use of when holding the system vertically.
New this yr is the 48-megapixel Extremely Huge lens, and it is a huge enchancment over the prior 12-megapixel Extremely Huge lens. Apple is utilizing pixel binning to mix 4 pixels into one, in the end offering a 12-megapixel completed picture, however merging pixels permits for extra element and improved high quality in low gentle.
The 5x Telephoto lenses have not modified, however you will get 5x optical zoom on the 16 Professional along with the Professional Max, which is new this yr. The “Fusion” digicam can also be mainly an identical to the “Foremost” digicam from final yr, and you continue to have the settings to decide on between 24mm, 28mm, and 35mm lenses.
Photographic Kinds are a fantastic addition for tweaking the look of a picture, and the pad for changes is helpful to get a singular temper with minimal effort. Ensure that to take a look at our video above to see it in motion.
For videographers, the choice to shoot in 4K 120 fps is tremendous helpful, particularly as a result of you possibly can sluggish it down or velocity it up in publish manufacturing. The Audio Combine characteristic for altering the audio additionally actually makes a distinction for capturing video.
We have now some iPhone 16 Professional digicam comparisons coming, the place we pit the iPhone 16 Professional in opposition to another flagship smartphones. Keep tuned to MacRumors to see these movies subsequent week.
