iPhone 6s Camera Quality

It's always going to disappoint if you listen to marketing or journalists. Watch YouTube reviews of products or unbiased reviews. The iPhone 6S camera is not a crazy improvement over the 5S or 6 camera. It's one of the best smartphone cameras on the market but is still not that great in low-light situations. Smartphone cameras require lots of light to get into that tiny little lens in order to truly shine (pun intended).😝

Go try taking a low-light photo on the competition and you will probably vomit if you're a photography enthusiast. iPhone is the BEST but still not perfect. Maybe in a few years? But I honestly don't ever see the camera getting much better as long as they keep insisting on making the phones thinner. The lens is already sticking out which is a sign that it's TOO thin.

I decided to have some fun! Here's another shot I took in low light situation and a better shot of the flower. Definitely click the full res versions! You can even see the fur on the bumby-bee 😝 The focus on the iPhone is always very pinpoint & centralized.... do you know how to widen the focus so it focuses on a larger area? I think that may be the issue with photos not looking PERFECT because the focus is sharpening a very specific object that you tap on to make the "focus square" focus on. That's what I notice with all my photos that one area is super sharp and the surrounding area looks like a pastel painting.

FULL RESOLUTION ~> http://i.imgur.com/otDV6oF.jpg?1

FULL RESOLUTION ~> http://i.imgur.com/TdTFZ5c.jpg?1

I have also noticed a difference between the 6 plus and 6splus camera quality. My 6s plus is taking grainy photos and videos in every shooting mode (Yes the camera lens is clean)

OH thank god I thought I was going crazy. Yeah my camera is doing the same thing it's a piece of crap. My 5s took amazing photos. all my photos on the 6s are blurry and or blotchy. I took it into Apple and they said "they didn't see it or understand."

Like really?! Are you freaking blind?!?!

My 6s pictures are annoying me so glad to see I'm not the only one. I loved my 5s for pictures & am really disappointed in this. 5s was great for taking lots at a time & saving the best, this however is useless & every time I try to take multiple pictures they are all one big blurred mess

My iPhone 6 vs. my iPad Mini 4 vs. my two new iPhone 6Ss:

1. I have an iPhone 6 and iPad Mini 4. The photos on both devices are capturing true-to-life color and correct exposure in normal lighting (inside and outside).

2. On October 14th I purchased a new iPhone 6S from an Apple Store. Later I noticed the photo exposures/colors were off. Friends complained the exposure was wrong (colors are dark; no details in shadows).

3. On October 15th I took the iPhone 6S to the Apple Store. The tech agreed there was too much black in the shadows and greens were too dark. We used a Barnes & Noble STARBUCKS cup for whites, browns, and greens. The brown became dark chocolate and the green became dark olive. To test for a screen issue, images were opened on a Mac.

The Apple Store replaced the iPhone 6S without hesitation.

4. My new iPhone 6S is experiencing the exact same issues. Side by side my iPhone 6 and 6S do not take the same images as you can see from review sites.

This is not a screen, user (as the Apple tech would have to be an idiot too), or ‘Live Photo’ issue as some suggest.

Currently, aside for adjusting the brightness/contrast in a photo-editor, there is no fix.

nemesis4670,

I don’t wish to be rude but, after reading all your replies to Robotas, I’m having trouble understanding how you’ve been helpful.

At this moment I’m sitting with a fairly new iPhone 6 and a second absolutely new iPhone 6S. There is a camera issue—as the 6S exposure is a total disaster.

1. I was with a tech for this issue at an Apple Store yesterday. The apparent focus issue is due to the general exposure issue. A simple matter of taking a timed photo test reveals this.

2. The same item photographed with sufficient inside lighting and outside lighting (a decorated Barnes & Noble STARBUCKS cup) reveals the iPhone 6S cannot take correct color/exposure.

Given the same item and lighting conditions (including inside an Apple Store), all the iCloud, setting recommendations, and implied user error are a waste of time and irrelevant.

I'll add another voice. Also coming from a 5s and completely disappointed.

The camera is slow to focus and take pictures. Pictures that would have been crisp on the 5s are blurry. The exposures seem overly dark (again compared to the 5s). Perhaps the low light performance is fine but the camera is darkening the photos making shadows into sludgy messes.

I don't have live photos on and frankly don't se the point of the feature.

I hope there is a software fix and it comes soon. Considering taking the camera back. So are some other people I know. Apple needs to chime in.

Michael

I completely agree. The way to recreate this is to take a low light picture of something far away. If you take a picture of something on the other side of your bedroom in complete darkness (so the flash will be used), an iPhone6 or 5s or 5 will consistently take a less noisy/grainy picture. I've done some testing, it's very repeatable.

The 6s picture is a bit more colorful / detailed, but has a ridiculous amount of noise and requires post processing to look about the same as a picture from an older iphone, at facebook / online resolution.

I was going through my pictures from the 6s yesterday and one thing was really apparent to me: the camera is extremely slow. Pictures that would have been clear and in focus on my 5s were blurry on my 6s. I have examples of the same pictures taken in the same light with the same amount of movement (I have a one year old) that are great on the 5s and unusable from the 6s

***?

Will have to try some other camera apps to see if its the camera app that is the problem.

Michael

I have also come from the iPhone 5s to 6s and like Robotas I am absolutely disappointed about focus and picture quality.

Exactly the same problem with my iPhone 6s pictures. Renecharles is right!
Matt

SO I called apple care and I've gone into the Apple Store and they still haven't a clue what I'm talking about.

I took a screenshot of the camera app before I took the photo, and everything looks great, but then the photo looks like crap.

YOu our can see the detail in my jacket in the screen shot, but in the photo it's smoothed out and the detai is gone

Okay! I made some headway!

the reason for the blotchy photos is part of the new camera software design.

its a denoise filter. I'm looking into seeing if there is a way to turn it off

This is a denoise or noise reduction filter they have added in the new iPhone software.

please go give feedback on how much you hate it so that hopefully they will give an option to turn it off!

https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html