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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:
Well, you obviously didn’t look at the examples in the link I posted, which included 3 Samsungs, a Samsung Galaxy S21, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy S20. So how can you possibly say it never happens with Samsungs, when there are 3 examples staring right out at you in the collection I posted?
I just purchased my iPhone 13 Max Pro one week prior, and of course, I am experiencing the same issue and all of my photos are horrendous. I have no idea how people are getting physics involved. Some of these replies are extremely ludicrous. So all of this flare is now normal?! This is absolutely ridiculous and due to this absurd and continued issue, I will no longer remain an Apple customer. I've had enough of this nonsense.
Yes thats strange, must be the angle or something, but im also surprised the flares are not there on your wide shot. Nice photos though :)
Sometimes you can be lucky that the phone removes some of the flares after the shot has been taken, I know people will say it's not possible but I already explained before that it is indded possible and I seen it several times when testing. You see the flare on the screen the whole way through till the photo has been taken and processed and after when you look at the photo the flare/flares you saw are gone. But it only happens sometimes for me with certain flares, so just have to be lucky.
Redesign and engineering can always improve any product.
That is 100% true.
Apple not only has to address these issues, but has plenty of resources to do it.
That is what we as consumer expect from them.
Again:
Attempts to mitigate flares through software will eliminate desired photo details, too.
You can’t work around optics.
Note that camera companies that have been around for 100+ years like Leica and Nikon have not solved this issue either, nor have Canon (a baby at 85) or consumer electronics giants Sony or Panasonic let alone cinema camera companies like Cooke, Panavision and RED.
I’ve so many pictures on my 13 pro max with green circles + reflections . I’ve Vivo x70 pro+ and pixel 6 with me . I don’t see the same issue happening n my other phones . This is some issue with the lens coating . Kindly admit it and don’t come up with the word ‘normal’ as always . I repeat this ain’t any ‘normal’ .
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.
Droffo wrote:
This is so frustrating…… Reading comments it looks like there’s nothing I can do about it.
Indeed. There is nothing that any photographer can do about it using any camera. Lens flare has been present in all cameras since cameras were invented almost 200 years ago. If you have a bright light in the frame of your picture (or falling on the lens from the side) you will ALWAYS have lens flare in the image.
Lawrence told you: Use standard photographic and videography techniques to avoid flare.
Here's a nice article from a camera lens rental site:
BorrowLenses: What is Lens Flare? When and When Not to Use It
Here's a nice piece from photography site FStoppers:
How to Prevent Lens Flare in Your Landscape Photography
A BIG known issue widely evident on the web. I have the 13 Pro Max and it’s major lens flares!
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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!
The reflections are of course a form of flare, and as I explained in a previous post, are also common across devices.
Feel free to send feedback to Apple via this link --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple
Yes, on any good digital imaging device - premium smartphone (not just iPhone), DSLR, professional cinema digital camera, etc.
Read this link --> https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250004327
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