IPhone 12 Pro Max Lens flare

Yeah. Someone said earlier that they stand out more because of higher grade glass lenses. Maybe. I don't know. I just know I don't see them in my library's images or videos from past phones. And with my new phone, it's so pronounced it's outright silly, and it's not even occurring when just in night mode or at night or in the dark. It occurs always when there are light sources. I've got the same setting shot in my living room with older iPhones and taken videos and pictures in all different modes. My old phones were fine, the new one is like watching a green spaceship fly around. (Sorry, I mean green rubber ducks. I'm going to start calling them that now. They're as undesirable as any kind of artifact, but so obtrusive they make images and videos as ridiculous as any image or video littered with green rubber ducks)

bobneedham wrote:

It can not be tied to Apple’s using a better lens. I shoot with m.Zuiko lenses, and I can assure you that the quality of iPhone lenses aren’t in the same world as them. I don’t have this problem with them. If it was about the quality of the lens they should be far worse by far with my m.Zuiko lenses.

So you use m.Zuiko lenses which are the same size as the lenses on iPhone? Of course you don't. And I would expect those lenses to be appreciably better. They can cost more $$ than an iPhone. And I imagine if you have a camera with dedicated lenses, you likely use filters on those lenses? For the money, you not only get a camera system, but you get a phone that makes and accepts calls, which runs all sorts of apps, accesses the internet, and can do far more tasks than a dedicated camera system. You need to compare apples to apples, not apples to pears.

Good point. They have optic metrics as a factor as well, which would locate precisely a whole range of pixels to correct. I read research papers on image processing to remove flares last night, algorithms for that already exists. Could be that patent costs block them.

I doubt if the next iPhone will have a fix, apparently this has been an issue through a number of previous versions so Apple are aware but just choose to do nothing about it. Absolutely ridiculous IMO considering the price of the phone. I have the 12 Pro Max, it’s my first iPhone since the 4, back to Android for me I’m thinking. No issues with them.

I am having the same issue with my iphone 12 . The lens flare issue is very terrible in night mode pictures. Will they fix it by ios 15? im not sure because it is a hardware problem. In fact all iphone 12 models having same issue.

I have the same problem, just on iphone 11. The thing is, when taking pictures at night, ok, I get it, it's a lens flare, it can happen with other cameras as well. Maybe not as noticeable as on newer iphones, but still. What I was really surprised about, that it happened, and looked even worse than in a night time, in the morning taking a mirror selfie in a room with no lights on or anywhere near and no direct sunlight. And it's not the brightest room either. None of my other phones did that, not even a dslr camera in the exact same position. The lense was clean and the picture came out with green sort of stripes in various shapes and sizes. Is that also considered as a normal lens flare? We're all talking how the camera is still a great one, but can we really say it's so great when we cannot even use pictures taken in certain situations? Pictures might be sharp and great quality, but the point is that we still cannot use them because of the excessive lens flare even when there is no strong source of light.

Actually, a quick Internet search shows they do and have other flare issues of their own.

For example, this is a shot taken with the M10 Ultra:

For those of you claiming these dots are “normal,” this is NOT normal.

see everyone having same issue . apple is not responding even i made few complaints the senior desk will answer the phone and said it’s normal they cannot do anything for this .

I’ve posted several iPhone 8 Plus photos showing yes, it did experience similar issues, resulting in the green dots; here’s one:

Agree they did a poor job with the camera flares on this years models. It's sad cause I really like the phone in generel, just the green dots / flares is too much.

Returned mine.

I get it, but you think there is a problem here; I do not.

It's trivial to work around any flare issues that do occur, the same as with any other camera.

You were just lucky; there are many examples of green dot flare on photos taken with a 6+.

Can u send pics of how the lens flare looks now with the replacement phone? Have it in a setting where it’s night out and there’s different bright lights and check if you see green dots.