Iphone 11 Pro Extreme lens flare

Your opinion.

Reviews by numerous web sites specializing in photography say it is normal for phone cameras of this size and resolution.

If you feel differently, feel free to purchase a different device of similar capability without this issue; all comparable products including the Samsung Galaxy 10 series and the recently released Google Pixel 4 do.

Web sites specialising in photography don't write reviews out of broken phones. Have you tried one of broken ones? I guess you haven't. I tried mine(bought in September in AU) and my brothers(bought few weeks ago in EU) and brother's phone takes some beautiful night photos, but my phone takes s*it ones. Some lens flare is ok and is expected, but the ones where you have a whole building, tree or whatever ghosted over people faces is for sure not normal and expected.

I do feel differently, my phone is horrible, the pictures I am achieving are not of the quality expected by Apple. Have you looked at the photos that Apple has released, everyone of them are stellar. The review sites I've looked at, the pictures are 10 times better than what I am achieving. I have pictures of the same places, with my iPhone X in my iPhone 11 and I never have these issues.

https://youtu.be/HAUb-gKR34A

I disagree, I think everyone is experiencing different results. The review sites I've looked at, the pictures are stellar, they're not like this.

Some of the complaints aren't warranted but some are.

In your opinion, do you honestly think these photos live up to Apples brand promise?

https://youtu.be/HAUb-gKR34A

People like William and some other "professional photographers" with perfectly working iPhone 11 would say that its an user error. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=iphone+11+lens+flare&sp=CAI%253D

While some is user error, it's mostly just a limitation of the device thanks to properties of physics and optics when dealing with a camera lens this small and this size of imaging sensor.

For example, the "green dot" flare is an issue with most every smart phone camera, and has been present on iPhone models since at least the iPhone 7.

It would be, the problem there is it's virtually impossible to tell the difference between flare and real data.

If the hardware or software got rid of the flare most of the time but fuzzed out the beads on the detail of a wedding dress, that wouldn't be good, either.

Examples from these sources are not even similar to the video attached in by the creator of this thread. Its not even similar to what I posted or its not even similar to what most people are reporting on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kCu9v7_AGE.

I would love to get rid of that protective glass! I'll do it! They would have to replace the plastic objective lens with a glass one and weatherize the system.

I think some of the night defects I see in my 11 Pro as compared to my SE is that the sensor is capturing much more faint detail which makes it look worse. Its the same defects as the SE just magnified.

I would also love to see a model just for photo enthusiasts. I would be willing to give up some stuff to get a camera that can work in a wider range of circumstances.

I agree the SE is toy like compared to the 11 Pro. No real comparison. It still irritates me that the SE easily outperforms the 11 Pro in sunset photos when the sun is still high. I was not expecting this. My iPhone 7 did not bug me with excessive flare, (excessive according to my expectations).

There are no pocket sized weatherized cameras that can match the Pro. Which is what I really want. Sooooo...I have to find a way around some of these issues or return it. But then what? I see no other choices.

JJoe15 wrote:

Apple should give an explanation and redesign the lenses. I already had 2 iphone 11 pro and both hade same problem.. comparing to Osmo pocket, there is no flare.

Perhaps they will on the iPhone 12.

They will not redesign anything for this generation of phones.

KeithCHARLES wrote:

There are no pocket sized weatherized cameras that can match the Pro. Which is what I really want. Sooooo...I have to find a way around some of these issues or return it. But then what? I see no other choices.

It's common throughout the industry, and once again is basically due to the constraints of current optics. If you do an Internet search you'll find flare complaints about the Samsung Galaxy 10 family and the just released Google Pixel 4 as well.

Coatings to reduce glare also reduce light transmission, so it's not as easy as introducing an inner lens coating either.

I hope so with the redesign. I'm sure there is something out there that no one has thought of yet. They just recently found a way to get rid of chromatic aberration without the use of exotic glass. Whole new process. Somebody can fix this reflection problem.

https://petapixel.com/2018/11/23/harvard-makes-nanosurface-that-fixes-chromatic-aberration-in-lenses/

William Kucharski wrote:

It's common throughout the industry, and once again is basically due to the constraints of current optics. If you do an Internet search you'll find flare complaints about the Samsung Galaxy 10 family and the just released Google Pixel 4 as well.

Yes, I saw that every single phone for sale in a Best Buy had at least the green reflection issue.