iPhone 13 Camera is blurry

We all got used to such great quality images with iPhone versions up to iPhone 11 that yes many of us professionals actually used iPhone images in professional setting. Me location presentations, some small sized marketing, web images etc. Now I would not use my iPhone 13pro images for a kindergarten photo shoot. They are *****. Plain and simple.

I have ordered a new Point and shoot lumix LX100 ll As I sold my other one after getting the iPhone 11 Pro.

13pro is so erratic in how it decides to process anything. It’s like a toy camera now.

That's for your use case; for me it has my Nikon D850 staying in its case most of the time as the 13 Pro Max can replace my Nikon for about 75% of my stills, the exceptions being when I need more optical zoom or the Nikon's resolution.

I don't even know how I would take the black light photos above with my D850; it would require extremely long exposures that would blur the subjects.

I guess we all have a different standard of what constitutes a quality image. For me (and obviously a huge amount of dissapoited iPhone 13 pro users) it is sharp details, well-exposed shadows and highlights, good color balance, and consistent results and a clean image we can filter later if we want to. None of which the iPhone 13 Pro gives me. I get oversaturated, blurry over-processed images. My iPhone 11 Pro was really amazing and I am looking for another 11pro. I do like the lidar on the 13 pro so for my set design work that is a plus. but camera/image wise it a total bust.

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The image is still processed EXACTLY like the examples shown here in bright light or low light... doesn't matter... and they look exactly the same in ProRaw and with the top rated third-party camera apps I've tried. THIS IS DEFINITELY something wrong with the way the cameras process the image prior to saving the file.

This was the same on the 12 Pro Max as well... I unfortunately had to move back to android for now.

So I did exactly that what you said and I can confirm the processing of the pics that cause this issue looks exactly the same with ProRaw. It's definitively something in the camera's hardware that it's doing prior to saving the file or even processing the file (obviously if it's happening in ProRaw).

Then use a third-party application that has access to the raw camera sensor like Lightroom Mobile, Halide or Snapseed to take a true DNG RAW shot.

Those applications have access to the sensor before even ProRAW processing is applied.

I just purchased a iphone 13 and also noticed that my pictures are blurry. I have made the adjustments but its still blurry and lower quality than my iphone 8 pics. I also notice that the camera does not focus in the square.

one trouble could be many people traded their older phones and they have no second iPhone to send compare images.

I still have the 8. here is an indoor lighting compare, along with a mirrorless aps-c 18mm. all on tripod and focusing in the center.

originals with exif available at https://emma.cloud.tabdigital.eu/s/sjLAkfTNmqL3CWN

Not sure how that helps w/o the same image taken with the iPhone 13. I understand what you're saying, but it's not difficult to do a web search and find images by any older iPhone or DSLR. Direct comparison of the same scene would be more relevant.

It's a false perception probably because of obvious superior colors of 13 sensor and ios software.

If you do a 100% crop on the letters of books you will notice that details are best preserved by the aps-c camera, then the 8, with 13 showing the most miserable details.

I am not good at color editing but if you manage to edit the aps-c and 8 colors/white balance to match the result of 13, you will definitely notice the 13 is the poorest detail preserving image.

ItWasBetterBefore wrote:

Sadly I've had zero success with neither methods.

Local service has replaced the camera without any change, Apple Support did not give a solution.

Then your camera is working as designed.

You should be able to bypass image processing using a third-party camera app such as Lightroom Mobile, Halide or Snapseed that has direct access to the sensor data and can produce a RAW DNG file you would need to process after the fact in software that can read DNG files.

Anyone looking at the small images in your screen shot would declare the iPhone 13's to be the best photos of the three based upon the overall image.

>Then your camera is working as designed.

How do we know for sure this isn't instead a small percent of manufacturing defects?

If is working a designed and the majority of iPhone 13 users are satisfied with the results, but there is a small percent dissatisfied, how do we know the cause is "working as designed" and not "a small batch with manufacturing defects"?

I mean, Apple managed to anger and frustrate photographers, not just regular users. At least from what I've seen commenting here.

ItWasBetterBefore wrote:

>Then your camera is working as designed.

How do we know for sure this isn't instead a small percent of manufacturing defects?

The comment "Local service has replaced the camera without any change."

Granted, that sounds like a service provider, not Apple, so it could still be a lens issue, but I am going with the assumption it was a provider that knew what they were doing.

If is working a designed and the majority of iPhone 13 users are satisfied with the results, but there is a small percent dissatisfied, how do we know the cause is "working as designed" and not "a small batch with manufacturing defects"?

See above and the fact that it was serviced.

I mean, Apple managed to anger and frustrate photographers, not just regular users. At least from what I've seen commenting here.

Actually most photographers and regular users are happy.

Apple has frustrated some who want a more raw output from the sensor, but as computational photography becomes more of the norm, what all smartphones is providing is fully processed, filtered images ready for one button posting to social media.

Apple provides ProRAW on the 13 Pro/Pro Max and unfiltered RAW mode access to third party photo apps for photographers and those who want the capability.

>The comment "Local service has replaced the camera without any change." Granted, that sounds like a service provider, not Apple

Sorry I rushed typing. It was a local AASP. Which pretended they replaced the camera (and it shows in About that is genuine replaced), but I use a publicly available software that can read serial numbers and it shows the same camera serial numbers before and after "replacement".

I then contacted Apple support to complain and best they could do was to advise to go to a second opinion AASP. I went to the only available second AASP and they refused to ackowledge the issue.

Went back to Apple support and they again left me with no options other than recommending to proceed with local laws about customer reglementation authority, which is notorious for being mostly unhelpful in my country.

Good to see that now that Lightroom mobile, Halide etc are indicated to bypass the processing that still lies in the apple pro raw files

it took time but at least we agree on that ;))

I also noticed that now (not sure if after updates) oil-painting effect on iPhone 13 pro is not there if shooting in portrait mode (x3) but only using normal telephoto x3.

I tried shooting same subject with x3 versus x3 portrait mode and the result is very different .

in telephoto x3 without portrait mode text look “oil-painted” as well as people skin, especially faces etc.

are other user experiencing the same?