Are these signs of camera defects with my iPhone 13 Pro Max? I keep getting these lens flares when taking photos and videos with bright sources of light. Happens allot with the sun during day and bright lights during night.
iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 15
Yes and they're normal. Before you take the photo, you can easily see the flares on the screen. Alter the angle of the phone relative to the bright lights and you can eliminate the flares.
While these two photos were taken on iPhone 12 Pro Max, you can see what I'm talking about.
This photo show lens flare:
Simply angling the camera differently without moving at all produced this photo:
Lens flare is normal when takin photos in direction to bright light(sun etc) but that stupid little bright dot is NOT!!
I see in coments many “Experts” talking that’s normal .. you don’t know how to take photo properly… well, “Experts” tell me what about this little bright spot that you cannot avoid .. and don’t tell me that i don’t know about photography and lens etc. I worked as photographer for 15 years. This is hughe problem with new iPhone lenses and it is time to talk about it and find resolution at least to move of that stupid litle dot.
I see you've taken a lot of guff on this but have to agree with you ... I just took a bunch of daylight video this past weekend on my iPhone 13 pro max and there is so much lens flare in almost all the footage. I upgraded from an iPhone 11 which I took tons of video with outdoors last year and I got almost no lens flare on that footage. Remarkable. It must be something to do with the larger lenses I guess, trying to figure out settings to avoid this, but so far very frustrated and surprised by this new limitation.
Didn’t happen on my iPhone X….didn’t happen on my iPhone 11 Pro Max…. Sorry! Appears to only have been what you describe as ‘normal’ on the 12 and now the 13. Grrr!
It’s much, much, much worse for iPhones on the most recent camera systems. It’s a massive design flaw that Apple won’t admit.
Here are three photos I pulled from a Samsung forum where people were complaining about lens flare in S21:
And in the last photo, that's evidently not the moon.
Focal length.
If you get closer to your light fixture so that it is the same relative size in the frame with the ultra wide lens as it was with the wide lens, you should see the reflection reappear.
Yes, but worst on Apple. By far.
You’d prefer a wide one?
The closer you are to point sources, the more
likely flare is.
Do you have any lens protector or back cover having lens protected by kind of plastic glass? Do you think this is a reflection?
I dont see this issue in my iPhone.
When Apple Engineering can change the laws of photographic physics, something no one else has ever managed to do, it will be an amazing and unheard of leap in photography.
I repeat, this is Not normal.
Flares could be normal in some lenses in certain conditions. As photographer I know.
But those reflections/mirroring of part of the images are Not flares
The reflections are of course a form of flare, and as I explained in a previous post, are also common across devices.
Oh, that's normal they will tell you.
Yes, and you also don't get flare on the iPhone 13 unless your lens is pointed directly at bright lights.
It would have to be a design flaw in every premium smart phone, camcorder and $50,000+ cinema digital camera with $10,000+ cinema lens.
iPhone 13 pro lens flare
