Tuesday, October 8, 2013

iPhone 5S' camera praised by National Geographic photog - CNET

Photographer for the magazine — famous for its dramatic covers — gives high praise to the 5S’ camera, ditching a Nikon in the process.

Brooke Crothers
October 7, 2013 10:43 PM PDT

The iPhone 5S's camera has bigger sensors and an improved aperture, among other upgrades.

The iPhone 5S’ camera has bigger sensors and an improved aperture, among other upgrades.

(Credit: Apple)

The iPhone 5S’ camera has passed muster with National Geographic.

Photographer Jim Richardson of National Geographic — famous for its dramatic covers — traded his Nikon for an iPhone 5S in a visit to Scotland, according to a story posted on Monday.

“With intense use (I’ve made about 4,000 pictures in the last four days) I’ve discovered that the iPhone 5S is a very capable camera,” he wrote.

Richardson continued.

The color and exposures are amazingly good, the HDR exposure feature does a stunningly good job…Best of all it shoots square pictures natively, a real plus for me since I wanted to shoot for Instagram posting…What surprised me most was that the pictures did not look like compromises. They didn’t look like I was having to settle for second best because it was a mobile phone.

That’s high praise for a smartphone camera. CNET Reviews seems to agree.

“A suite of new and useful upgrades help make the already-good iPhone 5 camera into something even better,” according to CNET’s take on the 5S.

The 5S’ iSight camera has a 15 percent larger sensor and a better aperture of f/2.2, compared with the iPhone 5′s f/2.4. Both of those upgrades let in more light, among other benefits.

[Via MacRumors ]

Photo snapped with iPhone 5S.

Photo snapped with iPhone 5S.

(Credit: Scott Stein/CNET)


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