Zooming in furtherĪs I mentioned earlier, I don't like ultra-wide snaps - no, I love using telephoto or periscope snappers to close the distance. If this was the end of the camera test, there would be a clear winner - but unfortunately, Apple's offerings don't go the extra mile. So there are good and bad things about both snaps, though if push came to shove I'd have to pick the iPhone 13's snap as being my favorite. It's weirdly yellowish on the Pro Max snap, more so than on the S22 Ultra shot (and compared to the real house). However when you zoom in, an odd iPhone niggle rears its head - look at the house on the left.
The pictures make this clear - you can't see any of the non-cloudy sky on the Pro Max snap.įor the picture of this tree, the iPhone snap works - it frames the branches up well. But note, that this doesn't mean they zoom in the same amount - that's 3x from their own respective 'standard' modes.īecause the iPhone has a longer focal length for its main camera, that means 3x its zoom gets it further in than on the Samsung.
Going wideīoth the Samsung and Apple phones offer 3x optical zoom on their telephoto lens (though admittedly the Galaxy has a second zoom camera, that we'll get to later). Both phones lose points here (as neither has a dedicated macro camera, like some other mobiles), though the iPhone loses more. So the images you see aren't actually taken in macro mode, purely because I couldn't wrangle the iPhone well enough to ensure it'd take right. And sometimes when this mode did trigger, the completely wrong thing was in focus. The device would flicker between its lenses seemingly at random when near the leaves, and there was no consistent way of getting the right level of focus, or keeping the phone in macro mode. While it was annoying on the Galaxy, though, it was downright impossible on the iPhone. I had to hold the phone really still and manually adjust the focus using on-screen controls. When I held the Galaxy S22 Ultra near these leaves, hoping to get the nearest few in focus and the rest of the leaves slightly out of focus with the background a nice puddle of blur, it took quite a lot of coercion to get this to happen. However, the results weren't perfect on either. You see, both use their ultra-wide cameras to take macro photography shots, and both automatically switch to these when you put the phone near a subject. but apparently neither Apple or Samsung do, or they would have made taking close-up pictures much easier.
I like a nice macro image as much as the next person.
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