![]() Think about that for a moment, iPhone pics have been fine for many needs for years now but the new features and HEIF format raise the bar to a point where many more photographers will see the iPhone as “perfectly sufficient”. Next holiday the DSLR won’t even make it to the front door! I can also imagine a lot of folks will still take their DSLRs on holidays and then faced with the choice of carting the gear around some foreign city for a day will decide…nah….leave it in the motel room, I’ll just slip the iPhone into my pocket. That improved shallow depth of field effect will be enough to sway the choice for many casual and semi-serious users, most folk care little about how the result is achieved and just love the fact it can be done at all, much to the chagrin of many old-school shooters. I reckon a lot more people are going to choose the iPhone as their only camera, I can easily see DSLRs and Mirrorless cameras being left behind sulking in cupboards while owners pop off for two weeks of R and R. Now that might sound an odd thing to say since traditionally we shoot RAW/DNG to overcome the limitations of JPEG capture but bear with me. I actually think the iPhone 8 Plus DNG files have more relevance to the new iPhones that the previous versions because the general capabilities of the new cameras are much better all around. ![]() This test is just about the potential of this DNG files but later I intend to explore the other options in depth, once I get my own iPhone X in a couple of months. Wendy gave those headline features a big workout over the weekend with our 8-month-old Grandson Milton and apart from having a lot of fun she found the results were actually pretty good most of the time. This review is not about the fancy schmancy modes that the standard app offers, you’ll find plenty of info in other places if you want to know the ins and outs of the portrait mode or that cool photo lighting mode, suffice to say I reckon they are pretty cool. But Wendy, being a lovely lady and terrific wife, agreed to let me have a little free time with her new 8 Plus baby. Frankly dragging any new Apple device from Wendys’ hot hands when she’s in the first blush of Apple love is harder than getting our Border Collie to give up a bone. First off, consider this a preliminary test: it’s my wife’s iPhone and it only arrived Friday morning, so my time with it was a very limited, basically an hour or so on Sunday afternoon. Nothing is clipped either.Īnd so here we are just a few days after the iPhone 8 release with a peek beneath the DNG hood. Anyway it shows how the deep shadows (under the bridge) hold up pretty well. Sometimes test shots work out nice in themselves and quite like this one, perhaps it is the layered effect. ![]() For comparison the shot below is one of the test images I took with the iPad Pro converted to monochrome, the overall quality is rather nice. Anyhow, I’d have been happy if the iPhone 8 Plus DNG files were as good as the iPad Pro since it seems they’re actually a bit better I’m pretty chuffed. As far as I can tell the modules on the iPad Pro and iPhone 8 plus are pretty similar, save for the lack of stabilization on the iPad, but like all things Apple it can be quite difficult to get any definitive answers on what’s going on under the hood.
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