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:
It's normal, so it can happen regardless of who is shooting with it.
You may never have noticed or you have a defective camera. Use your warranty.
Those are reflextions, not flares. In some pictures you can see the image mirrored. It doesn’t happen with flares.
I have the same issue on my brand new iPhone 13 Pro Max.
Hope Apple solve thai ASAP
No matter how many times you repeat it, your statement isn't true.
Vivo x70 pro+:
Google Pixel 6:
All phones have lens flare.
Apple has the worst lens flare.
but you’ll be told they don’t soon enough.
yup - there it is now 😂
If you watch the link on the iPhone 13 lens flare issue that I posted, you can see that the flare shows up event in Apple's professional movie Director commercial...
of course nothing like on our own phones were literally looks like a laser pointer. baaah!
Can't easily be removed in processing automatically without accidentally removing some of the desired picture/video content in normal operation.
For example, if you took a photo of Christmas lights, it might remove the green dots that are supposed to be on the tree.
It's not about bending laws of photographic physics, I have taken many fotos with compact camera and my bigger DSLR, and I never got these flares in the situations that I get now on my iphone 12 pro max. I never had to angle or do anything special with my other cameras to avoid flares cause they were never there. I tried taking photos outside of some christmas lights, no matter how I angled my phone the flares wouldnt go away. I still think it's the way the lenses are housed and positioned in the camera, and I also think they need some coating, this would all help a lot.
Fair enough…
For what it's worth, night mode kind of is responsible as most people didn't try to take photos in conditions most prone to flare before night mode existed.
(Or they did, and the entire photo came out dark.)
Wait not very common taking photos of bright lights at night before the Iphone 12 ? Yes it was, just now you can take better photos because of night mode. I have taken many with my older phones and cameras on hollidays, loved taking in the evening around the illuminated pool, and with the hotel in the background with lights. Also around christmas with pretty christmas lights. They all looked good and without flares.
To be fair that is an extreme situation with a very bright stage light shining right into the lense, not surprised this would give a flare. But can't compare that with flares from simple streetlights.
Exactly. Didn’t have any on the 11 and because I hadn’t and skipped a gen, when they popped right up on the 13 Pro Max I thought it had to be an assembly defect. Nope, now I know… it’s what the phone does! Had no preparation and since Apple touted it as movie studio/film maker quality, I expected better…
Now I know…sound like it’s coming on the 14, too!
It's clear you're not going to be happy with the camera system on your iPhone 13. You have 14 days to return it for full refund. Instead of complaining on a forum of users only, you might want to see if there is a phone out there which better meets your needs and expecatations.
Salvida wrote:
What was that thing about the reddit user who said the iOS 15 software removed some of the flares for him after the photo was taken? Anyone heard of him? He said he would see the flares on the screen before the shot was taken and after when he checked the photo, some of the flares was removed automatically by the software. Might have been something they tested in beta version, I havent heard more about it since the public iOS 15 came out.
That was what we call wishful thinking. Apple, nor any other camera system made in the world can bend the laws of photographic physics.
As the article says this is done during on-device post-processing, iOS 15 been out for a while in beta so therefore plenty of time for people to test and see these things. If it still works now in the official public release I have no idea, will have to test this myself. I will report back if it works for me or not. But again like the article says it doesnt work in all scenarios.
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