Love the cameras. But horrible lens flares.
And it seems it’s defective:
One the right, above the window. Green flares from tube lights to the left.
In the middle of the picture:
On the TV screen:
Will try out during the day and post
I can't remember if I showed these two photos here in this thread or in another one on this topic.
Here's a picture I took with flare. I could easily see the flare on my iPhone 12 Pro Max screen before I took the photo, which you could have seen if you were holding my phone as well:
Is my phone defective? No, of course not.
Without moving my position at all, I moved the angle of the camera relative to the scene and took this photo seconds later. Notice anything different? The flares are gone.
The way I'm awarded points is by actually helping users solve issues they can't solve on their own. It is users who give us points when they ask a question and we give them the right solution. Apple doesn't give me points. I actually help people here on lots of topics and I enjoy helping people. But that's with things that can be resolved. This thread is about something no one can resolve other than to tell people to be more careful when taking photos. I'm not defending Apple in this thread. I'm offering WHY these flares occur and what we can do to reduce or eliminate them.
So if you were helping the person who shot the image I just posted, what specific advice would you give to eliminate the flare; and telling the person to put the sun in the directly in the middle is not good advice. That would alter the composition and make it a different photo. It would also violate the Rule of Thirds.
And that would be bad advice how? Either they do that or they capture the flare. Do you still not understand that the photo you posted presents challenges even to High End DSLR camera systems? What advice would you offer this person, since you don't think my advice has merit?
iPhone 12 MaX 2. Huawei mate 10 and 3. Max how to avoid flare , but again this is sigle point situation , more light more flare more time to play with it , sometimes not possible, Xr later this week.
When did pictures taken with phones require post production? so much for ease of use. I of course can use post production software on all my photos for many purposes (replace the sky anyone?) but do you think purchasers who buy a phone (camera) buy it knowing now that they will need to do this. And how are people going to solve the green dots and ghosting in videos.
Okay, let's finally all agree that we will be spending time to heal the image. how about video? should I work on premiere pro for 2 hours to fix the entire video? People, please..! This is clearly an intense problem that no other high end mobile device has it.
Other phones do have flares BUT normal, expected flares ... the beautiful ones....not 300 dots on a photo and terrible reflections. .
the phone is powerful fantastic and I love it. The lens are also great BUT they restrict me. I cannot shoot in light, I cannot shoot in the house as I get ghost, and honestly I have not yet tried to shoot video at night ... I think I will be crying tears there!
keep in mind that I ve been using since iPhone 3g and have never changed ever since.
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.
It is not normal nor expected.
Apple ***. My next phone will be a Samsung. Apple products are defective.
Low quality. People also complained they had troubles hearing me when I put my iPhone 12 Pro on speaker.
I would not buy any more products from Apple. Good luck with their EV development LOL.
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Well, I just sold a Galaxy S20 Plus to buy this POS and I never had lens flare with it. How kind of you to give your permission for me to go back to Android. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Since you feel iPhone is a ***, no one here cares if you go back to Android, to be honest.
Hey Dogcow-Moof 👋
I didn’t see any references on other phones like we have here. Your links only lead on dot glares. But we have here full mirroring of light sources. It ruins the whole video shooting and it cannot be avoided.
I have never seen such a defect on the video, either on DSLR cameras or mirrorless or on the phones of other companies.
Will be glad to see exact the same level of video defects on other devices.
Terrible 😕
To prevent this you should aim your phone directly towards the light source in order to cancel out the glare as you move your phone you can see the glare moving in the screen move the glare towards the light source in order to cancel it out of your photo it will reflect into itself when the picture is taken and it will not have a glare
Seriously? After all your posts you think the problem is with common glare that is a result of light hitting the front element at a sharpe angle. Say it isn’t so. What everyone has been talking about is the green/blue/white dots. You know better.
this is taken from my iphone 12. im not a professional photographer but this seems to be disgusting. even the iphone 11 has much lower lens glare but why they cant fix this issue with software update at to a certain point ?
Unfortunately it’s not defective this is just how they are, I’m working with the 12 pro and 12 pro max and both are like this. I’m guessing the only fix would be with the next iPhone model?
IPhone 12 Pro Max Lens flare
