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.
And a lens hood on this shot would do absolutely. I consider buying a new lens. My less than $1000 dollar lenses don’t have this problem
Proving that the 12 Pro Max is an excellent, high quality camera, unless your photo stream is dedicated to people complaining about lens flare.
Good for you.
Anyone knows if this kind of lens flare is normal?
Google Pixel 4:
Canon DSLR:
Galaxy S21 Ultra vs. iPhone 12 Pro Max:
I forgot this thread and see I was battling this subject way back then too!
Yes you did; thanks for that.
What can I say. I'm a gluten for punishment.
I’ve no idea what to do with this phone…
Yes, my thoughts exactly. Those lens covers are causing that internal reflections.
As they increased the size of the lens, the problem became more accurate.
The images are otherwise great, especially the long exposure shots.
Neither the Xiaomi Mi10 ultra, or any if thr Galaxy phones (tried the FE 20 5g) have this problem.
This is actually just evidence that not all lens 'flares' are created equal. This is a typical, aesthetically pleasing flare on a light source that is reminiscent of film and SLR photography. The ghost reflections and multiple green dots all over the place are aberrations of a different character. That this is the type of lens flare you get on a M10 shows that it's not just 'physics' and that it's a lot to do with lens design, coatings etc. it would be nice if the iPhone hardware/camera implementation could be refined to produce this kind of smartphone photography result.
Short of discoveries in optics or physics, it can't be.
Even Leica, who has been making lenses since 1914, can't solve the problem in the smartphone space despite working with Huawei to do so.
That M10 flare is just plain obnoxious to me - across the entire frame and something typically only obtainable with a star filter.
The dots and ghost images you complain of are very easily avoidable using basic photographic techniques.
The normal iPhone 12 has the same problem. This should definitely be classified as a defective. The light reflection/ghosting is why more prominent and distracting than it should be. Apple should fix this issue, not on Next year's phone but now. the lenses do not have the proper coating to reduce the reflection.
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the flare on a light source is typical, what the **** is going on with all of those dots on the wood on the photo above?! That's not even lens flare, we need to start using the right terminology. Flare from a light source is just completely different from random dots covering the screen
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