iPhone 7 Plus Camera - Pictures are bad

@fateloop: You're right but some objects seems to be ok-ish. Before, when taking photos of my kid's lips (they have so much detail that I find them as the best benchmark) there were like painted and this time they look like ok. The photo seems to be ok to me. I was looking for some opinion because I did something and maybe I made my photos look better than before. Like the plate with pasta looks pretty decent to me. Also the depth of filed does not look too blotchy as someone called it. Or maybe I am hallucinating already. 😉

On the other hand i took some photos in the past few days and saved them as uncompressed TIFF and I had the same result which would then mean that it might be something hardware related since TIFF should be almost like raw almost perfect quality.

They exchanged my iPhone 7 to a new one and it has the exact same problem.

The only thing I just cannot understand that in the store the phone they put out there makes a lot better pictures than mine does ( i posted comparison pictures earlier here)

The colors, the white balance seems a lot better on their device..

my only guess is that those phones have a different ios running

They are running the same IOS, but seems the difference is caused by the first batch VS second batch iPhone, whereas the second batch iPhone got inherent defect...

Do you have any sources for this first vs second batch theory?

And btw, store devices runs modified versions of iOS, not the same ones as devices you can buy.

The webpage in Chinese have such a believe

https://www.newmobilelife.com/2016/11/07/iphone-7-plus-camera/

Interesting...

Might redirect that article to other news site to see if anyone wants to pick it up. I tried the iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 6s Plus at one of the stores today, to be honest, seems like both devices also produce pretty bad denoised details.

And are comments being deleted here? I remember this thread had already reached 20+ pages, but its now back to 16, or was I dreaming.

Yep, 4 pages are missing 😉 "The truth is out there" though....

I went to the store and there was a friend of my working. He said he heard of some camera problem and that it should be fixed with the software update.

I will however go to the servis store here and ask Apple serviceman about it. At least he can report the problem and hopefully get an (official) answer.

"Fine" meaning better than the other photos?

I did something kind of accidentally and my photos seem to be a little bit better. I think so because I am so paranoid about that that i do not know any more what is good and bad.

wow they look good. what you did? could you share with us? Thank you 🙂

I would venture to guess all the US web site in the Apple world are well aware of the issue. Ask Ben Lovejoy at 9to5mac there is a distinct reason why they haven't picked it up.... after 60 days of sales in the millions and their own testing shows no issue to speak of unless your at 100% pixel for pixel which is what we do with Nikon D4/5 and same with Canon's those are full frame bodies with corresponding good pro line sense in the low $2,000 and up.

Apple never developed this to be used for pixel peeping. And many groups on Flickr and elsewhere have very nice prints at letter size and below which is more in line with expectations for a camera phone. I don't care how many pixels you cram on the chip only so much you can do.

Now its a shame many here aren't happy with their iPhone 7's as so many shots taken and tested ahead of release along with known fact since version 6 that Apple bumped up the noise reduction a bit too much. That is what their engineers came up with I disagree with them on that along with over sharpening of the jpegs.

Either way just my opinion and I hope you all find a resolution to this. I have googled using many search terms about bad pictures on iPhones etc and only get this thread.....

On another note 2 days back this thread was up to 20 plus pages so 4 disappeared.

You do know you can bypass auto focus and lock focus on something that will give you correct white balance? I do believe its in the manual (page 307 {iBooks} in iPhone Manual iOS 10.1 basic instructions so your not relying on face detection or other automatic settings that work but only in the best of environments).

https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Huawei-P9-vs.-P8-Mobile-review-Good-improvement- for-the-latest-device

an 80 on DXO versus an 86 for iPhone 7 and the 7Plus is being done now although other sites have it at 88..... the industry standard that takes all outside issues out of the testing so all things are equal....

https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Apple-iPhone-7-camera-review-better-than-ever

some understanding of Apples choices that seem to not be understood in this thread..... a good read for Apples choices http://www.macworld.com/article/3121661/apple-phone/blow-up-iphone-7-plus-uses-d igital-zoom-instead-of-optical-more-often-than-youd-expect.html