blurry pictures on camera iphone 12 pro

I’m beyond disappointed with the camera on the 12 pro Max. I hate this phone! I wish I never upgraded. I am going to see if I can get a new one as I use the camera for work.

Exactly! Because the camera is so crappy I have to go out and buy a digital camera with video because I need it for work.

Exactly the same thing for me !

I did some further testing indoors. I took an image of a color chart and at all three settings .5, 1.0, 2.0 the colors matched. What I did notice was that upon closer look at focusing "square", on the.5 setting that it was "pulsating" trying to seek focus. I had to hold the focus area to lock focus. " firmware" issues or "operator " issue ?

I have this issue, but the photos from all lenses appear to be soft on my 12 pro max. I had an 11 pro max before this and it was superb. I'm a pro photographer so this particularly irks me.

Lens flares are incredibly bad as well - bizarre, like there's some sort of coating on the inside of the lens.

I've been chatting with apple support, and they've suggested I try factory resetting the phone as a first step. Happy to try that but I suspect the only solution will be replacement...

Apple have run a diagnostic, and of course, it reported no issues.

That seems to be the consensus, make Apple replace the phones. Thanks for the comment, I hope more people on this thread take the advice.