IPhone 12 Pro Max Lens flare

These are not flares, these are reflections of images with light sources. I discovered this while taking pictures of shop signs. I have had iPhones for over since iPhone 5 and never saw such refections. Pictures below say it all.

Is there a chance the shiny rings around the lens cause this issue? The iPhone 12 has a matt lenses rings and seems to produce less or non light dots. , I know you are talking about the glass itself but anyway, just giving my thoughts

iphone 12 black, taken through car window

I have the same problem with an iPhone 12 Mini.

First of all I can't understand why so many Apple defend here. It’s a great telephone but....

No, it is not normal for a mobile phone camera to reflect a light source this heavy in the picture, be it on a pole, in the sky or anywhere else in the picture. We are not talking about a simple lense flare...we are talking about copying the light source randomly anywhere in the Foto and make it useless.

This was also confirmed by Apple support when I showed photos.

I was connected up to a higher ranking technician who said it must be defect and the device needed to be replaced.

What do I say... the new one of course has the same problem since it is obviously a problem of the whole 12 series.

I'm sorry, a single point in the picture may be normal but not what is happening here. I also find it hard to believe that no one in any product quality tests notices something like this before so that FOUR new models are are launched this way and are almost useless at night. (I know it sounds drastic but it's really like this... the ones, that film with their phone will confirm it). And this ,with a product that is often bought because of the good camera.

by the way... the problem completely disappeares with the ultra wide lense.

In my opinion, Apple must react with a solution...

This was one example.

There are several Android photos with multiple dots posted to this very thread if you really want to view them; generally its one reflection per filament for multiple bulb photos or per intense reflection for sun photos.

Here's a photo from a Google Pixel 4:

If you look around for Samsung flare examples, there are many.

Every other premium smart phone shows the same "green globs"; here are two Android examples:

Likewise, Tokina glass shows something similar; again the top image is from an iPhone 12 Pro Max, the bottom from a $5000 Canon DSLR with a Tokina wide angle lens.

I think the cameras on the 12 pro max are quite good, but if you can’t shoot into direct light, you won’t be able to shoot sunrises and sunsets if the sun is above the horizon. Shooting at night directly into a light source is not something I do much, but how would you feel if you shot a total eclipse of the sun and it had green spots and ghosting?

This is so disappointing, I spent big money on 12 Pro max just for the camera and its low light night picture capability and this happens? completely ruined all my kids birthday pictures, anyone here saying oh it is a common problem for all cameras is nonsense. I have all other phones and SLRS they do have minor flare problems but none of them are this worse, especially when apple is touting that is low light genius. I have contacted apple for a replacement and see if this problems still exists, if it does, I will ask for a refund. stop saying that this is a common problem and you should bear with it crap!

Guys

the lense flare is terrible and horrible it is all over the face when you trying to take picture ! I swapped my pro max with a new one with APPLE and same thing happened ! I always been using iPhone and this never happen before . My husband is using Huawei also great camera and his phone doesn’t have these green dot

this is unacceptable quality of phones I will call Apple till the end of it

linyu144 wrote:

My husband is using Huawei also great camera and his phone doesn’t have these green dot

Huawei P30:

This is normal for all high end smart phone cameras.

If you believe the 12 Pro Max is worse than others, return it for a refund and purchase something else.

From Apple’s beautiful short film. One example when you see it (not easy) is in this picture it’s obvious even when watching the film at normal speed. There are a couple of other very small dots in other scenes. I suspect filters were used to reduce the brightness of dots and ghosting. Still “shot with an iPhone”. Even world renowned professionals couldn’t eliminate the behavior of the lens, even with post production efforts.

A FB friend posted this picture, and it came through my feed. After seeing the spot I asked if what equipment did he use? There was no indication if it was a camera or a phone. His response was that it was shot with n iPhone 12 PM. It’s so obvious that I could identify it as being shot with a 12 PM. I am a member of a number of photographic FB pages and never have been able ID the equipment used.

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.

I personally have posted photos from more or less every other phone on the market showing “multiple dot” flares, and it all depends upon the source of the reflection.

Point sources lead to “dots,” multiple sources multiple dots, and large bright objects ghost images.

Apple can't do anything about it because it's a limitation of optics.

Feel free to choose an Android next time.

Oh, and once again, here's a wonderful comparison of flare on the iPhone 12 Pro Max and the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra.

This photo came through my FB stream. Because of the ghosting I suspected it to be a 12 PM. This is the 3rd time I have identified a potential 12 PM because of the obvious ghosting. This could have been shot with any camera or phone. It was a 12 PM. I’m 3 out of 3. So if I move the sun in multiple positions following the Rule of thirds the ghosting would go away? I think not - I tried it and it didn’t. Maybe I should have moved down the beach a mile. Sure, that’s the ticket.