iPhone 13 Camera is blurry

I missed my 14 day return window so i stuck with a iphone that creates a poor version of the photoshop CS2 oil paint texture on all the photographs. And a useless telephoto lens. All images are too soft ti use. I guess this is great for all the point and shoot camera manufacturers as i am back to my dslr. Every other aspect of the iphone 13pro is top notch. But the cameras and processing software are a horror show.

Why is your telephoto "useless?"

The telephoto lens on the 13 Pro Max is excellent.

If "all" your photos are "too soft to use" you're doing something very strange with your technique; most of the time, especially in good light, photos are excellent.

MarcelDav wrote:

I want as well the possibility to turn off HDR effects :) so ruru-eng , you can use "we" ;)

Just remember posting about it here serves zero purpose; leave feedback at the link I provided.

Wow, I was thinking of buying a 13 Pro Max today, but I won't after reading this! Always a good idea to do a bit of research to uncover any issues/bugs with a product you're thinking of buying... glad I did! Shame, because the rear cameras seem to have great results. But selfies are really important these days.

I did my research but saw better reviews for the camera. This is the only forum I’ve found about the camera being crap and 9/10 was good reviews. When Samsung comes out with their new phone I’ll be grabbing that. I looked like a cartoon character heavily filtered with the front camera it’s terrible. Also when I open my camera I have to turn off night mode EACH SINGLE TIME and apparently there is no permanent off button for it so it’s a freaking pain. If I need to be quick and take a picture of my dog or kids I won’t be able to get the picture because it’s like a 2-3 second countdown with night mode on OR I have to turn it off which isn’t with a click of the button.

I'm looking on my desktop monitor. Both pairs of the top images look very similar. In the night scene pair, the one on the right isn't as dark and better exposed but on my monitor it's not a big enough difference that I would make any decision which app is better. The pair in the bottom, the image on the left is noticeably brighter.

the branches of the tree on the right have a halo, the green leaves are smooth and lost texture + the halo around the objects, the red pointer changes color and the bushes are smoother and less clear.

I am seeing all of the same complaints and I am also sooooo upset. I was told the pro had AMAZING photos and it’s been trash . Has anyone figured out the fix or do we take the phone to the store ? I need a fix because I can’t deal with this 😭

You mean "shutter-manual camera" I assume, there are tons of apps named shutter in app store.

Does it work for video filming? I would not know as the app won't work on my iphone 13, crashes and won't even open the cam.

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 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.

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.

I just switched from my iPhone 6 lol

to the iPhone 13 mini and I can honestly say that the videos especially slow Mo with the birds in my backyard are better quality on the iPhone 6. 13 mini videos are really bad. So frustrated.

I've been using a new iPhone 13 Pro max for outdoor photography, often of wildflowers. I've noticed that there is a strong color dependency in how the focus works. The camera does a great job focusing on foreground flowers - as long as they aren't RED. It's almost impossible to get the camera to focus on red flowers. It strongly prefers the background - grass, twigs, etc, - if the flower is red. All other flower colors focus just fine.

I'm guessing that the auto-focus mechanism - whether it's pixel based, or Lidar based - doesn't pay attention to the red signal. Hello? There are red flowers out there!