White Balance on iPhone 4

This isn't with taking pictures, this is just the display in general. Has more yellow than my 3GS did. it corrects itself if i put it at nearly the brightest it can go, but if i have it at half way it's definitely more yellow than my 3GS.

250jay wrote:
This isn't with taking pictures, this is just the display in general. Has more yellow than my 3GS did. it corrects itself if i put it at nearly the brightest it can go, but if i have it at half way it's definitely more yellow than my 3GS.

I think the warmer white point is intentional (just as it was when moving form the 2G to the 3G).... we're all moving to cooler, more energy efficient forms of lighting (CFL, LED, etc.)... so I think you'll begin to see all screen devices start taking this into account when setting their native white points... look at your screen under different lighting sources and you'll see the "whiteness" varies with the lighting source...

@250jay - If your display has a more yellow tint I'd send it back.

My girlfriends had the exact same problem, when held next to mine on the exact same settings it had a yellow tint to everything.

I think this is a different issue to the white balance on the photos.

We contacted apple and are sending hers back to be replaced.

when i use my flash every pic is white. other than that my phone works perfectly. i'm one of the lucky ones. i am so surprised that Apple would make a product with this many issues though 😟 I hope they fix them soon.

I guess it's too much to ask for this phone to have the option of shooting RAW, or allow us to set white balance ourselves. I'm experiencing some white balance issues with my snapshots, too.

It seems like the phone would set exposure and white balance when you click the square to focus. It's probably a result of Apple dumbing down the camera setting so anybody can use it. I'll bet we're the vocal minotiry who even notice (or care) that our photos are sometimes yellow-orange. It's a little annoying, but I use my Canon dSLR when a photo really matters.

On video, my white balance can range all over the place, changing constantly.
Other times it's fine. Seems as though the iPhone software is checking white balance too frequently on video.

/slap

You were starting to snore in that dream you were having there. :P lol

I thought I was going crazy. All my indoor shots (on iPhone 4 32gb) were bright yellow and super saturated. Pictures taken with wife's 3GS under same lighting were white balanced properly. I'll wait a few more days for a software update, then back to the store I go.

Chris, you won't get any better results with a replacement. Until a software fix comes, just expect a yellowish picture under indoor, tungsten lighting.

I spent a whole lot of time at the apple store yesterday and got in a big argument with some of the apple techs who by the way no didley about their products..After all that basically it has come down to that they know the white balance $uck$ and was told that its not a high end camera just a phone camera. The new update may fix it or not. I tested a few of there display phones and was once again told that those phones are loaded with different software. They had a few employees show me their phones to compare to mine and they all varied in white balance. They all admitted they have been reading these forums and concur that there is a difference but it got to the point were I had to make a decision to return the phone of keep it. I did not have time to go through the process of a return as I was already late but I will be taking the phone back just before my 30 days is up for a full refund if there is no software update.

Truth is all iphones will have a white balance problem under artificial lighting especially when using video its worse. It just depends on the lights and colors around that will effect it. Out doors there is absolutely no problem which in their defense it could be software problem.

Either way all this should have been worked out....if you notice most all the pictures on the apple website show great outdoor pictures. I looked at the tech specs to regards to the camera and the have sold us on a a brilliant 5 mega pixel high quality camera.....and yes outside in day light

look at this picture of the black man a oriental lady on this link below. Look at here face it looks like it has highlights that are yellow and they both have an orangeish hue.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/camera.html

it is what it is and I have come to just try to except it....shouldnt have to but what other option besides returning it do we have?????

Actually you're right. I never noticed that their own indoor picture was much too yellow/orange. I do think this should be something addressed in software and I see no reason why it can't. Even if the camera did nothing but apply an offset toward the blue for all indoor pictures, that would help.

How would you expect the camera to know when you are taking an indoor photo?

Picture colour balance and saturation can easily be adjusted using various editing Apps. The default iPhone4 camera colour balance and saturation settings are incorrect and should be fixed. Another nail in the coffin for this jinxed phone.

pberk wrote:
How would you expect the camera to know when you are taking an indoor photo?

That's what auto white balance does. The same mechanism is in all video cameras and most still cameras. It measures the color temperature of the lighting where you are and adjusts accordingly. If it didn't know the color temperature, your outdoor pix would look just as bad.

The fact that it can take pix outdoors with good white balance, shows the camera is capable of reasonably accurate colors.

kinura wrote:
Picture colour balance and saturation can easily be adjusted using various editing Apps. The default iPhone4 camera colour balance and saturation settings are incorrect and should be fixed. Another nail in the coffin for this jinxed phone.

try out adobe's photoshop.com mobile app. works
great to de-saturate those yellow pics this camera
takes.

http://mobile.photoshop.com/iphone/

personally, i never use a point and shoot or camera phone to
take indoor pics, but if i'm in a pinch, this will
help correct white balance issues.

Adobe is OK....Photogene is my preference for editing....has more parameters the Adobe.
Not sure it's free though! We shouldn't have to be correcting photographs taken on the iPhone4....