iPhone 7 Plus Camera - Pictures are bad

1. Try Updating

2. Try cleaning it

3. Take you iPhone to the AppleStore

Just for some info I paid for the Cortex Cam app which takes really good photos in low light without a tripod, subjects have to be still though.

Hello, iOS 11.1 Oct 31,2017 new update has fix for the iPhone 7 blurry photos.

Hi,

I also believe there is a software issue in iOS 10 affecting the camera of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. It's affecting both the focus and auto white balance of the photos taken by these devices. Let's hope this raises awareness of this issue.

This has been a known issue since the iPhone 6 was introduced, my 5S took amazing photos and this stupid heavy noise reduction wasn't present then.

Please submit this as a bug to Apple via https://bugreport.apple.com/

This is the only way to get our points across, there are plenty of other threads of this same exact issue on here and on MacRumors.com...... This is ridiculous and is a perfect example as to why the Pixel has overtaken the iPhone as the go-to camera smartphone.

Trust me, the issue is there for all users. Post a picture of your choice on here, zoomed to say 150% or so and you'll see the heavy noise reduction that is being applied to each and every single one of your pictures outside of RAW ones.

So knowing a tad bit of photography makes this a non-issue? Give me a break man, get over yourself.

If you think this is a non-issue then go take a look at the following threads:

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-6-noise-reduction-too-strong.1786611/

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/raw-support-no-apple-noise-reduction.1995838 /

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/update-9-3-camera-quality-improvement.196271 0/

iPhone 6 noise reduction and sharpening excessive

This is a widespread issue, most users don't realize it because they snap a picture, look at it and think it looks perfectly fine. That's fine for the average user but to those of us that also know a thing or two about photography we can all see there's too much noise reduction going on and it destroys the fine details. Shooting RAW by-passes this of course but to say this isn't an issue is just ridiculous.

I have this problem, too! Currently have a 5S and was going to upgrade to the 7. Played around with the camera at the Apple Store and compared images taken with it and with my 5S -- EXPECTING to see much better images with he 7. To my amazement, the images were WORSE on the 7. Way oversharpened and generally unpleasing. From reading this forum, I realize how it's actually way too aggressive of noise reduction.

I have an iPad Pro 9.7" with a 12 MP camera at home. Under iOS 10, it also takes these same kind of strange photos. My theory is this: It's not the iPhone 7, it's ANY of the 12 MP iPhones or iPads (including the 6/6S/7/SE and the Plus variants, along with the iPad Pro 9.7) running iOS 10. But not the 8 MP camera iPhone 5S running iOS 10.

Apple, fix this!!!

For now, I'm keeping my 5S.

Hey sasikiran_m,

Thanks for putting in the effort to take the photos. You may have missed out a link to the last example of 7 Plus Lightroom DNG exported to JPEG.

You might want to send the photos as attachments in bug reports to Apple. I think that will greatly help to highlight this issue to Apple.

The link is: https://bugreporter.apple.com/

Hope it helps.

I tested lightroom JPG quality that is saved to camera roll from DNG without any modifications. This is what i got. The camera app photo is less than 1MB and the lightroom is almost 2.5MB. It is easy to spot the difference with the depth of field fragments and the edges. But the best comparison is the photo of my kid's lips where you can clearly see the difference.

http://i.imgur.com/f5yqpRo.jpg

upper photo iPhone / lower photo Nexus 5x

http://i.imgur.com/WDSuUur.jpg

When you post them from the phone? Sounds like a software problem of some sort. Have you synced some to your computer to see how they look there? Try posting one downloaded from your phone to your computer to FB from your computer to see how that looks.

I've been looking at this since noticing just how poor dim lighted photographs are. I am a photographer and want to make the most use of RAW in iOS, most of the portraits I've taken indoors with the standard app have been truly terrible. Trying to mimic the standard app using third party apps like ProCamera doesn't work, for obvious proprietary locked down API reasons.

With the 7+ it seems there is a lot more to think about particularly where the telephoto lens is concerned. Please read through the iMore article below.

So I've been using ProCamera 10 and noticed the Dual mode lens option, which appears to mimic the "portrait" mode in the standard app doesn't take RAW photos which ***** big time. The explanation is in the second link below.

Looking at a lot of images here the combination of these two links, to me, explains the issue. I think for the likes of ProCamera the sooner they have access to the API that allows RAW capture using dual lenses the better.

When I have an SLR I know what settings to use in all environments and tweak as necessary, for my iPhone I want to take this out capture a moment and know I have a RAW file to manipulate later.

http://www.imore.com/iphone-7-plus-telephoto-wont-shoot-low-light-situations

https://www.procamera-app.com/en/blog/dual-camera-iphone-7-plus-procamera/

http://www.imore.com/iphone-7-plus-telephoto-wont-shoot-low-light-situations

I've been comparing samples from my iPhone 7 using the stock camera and ACDSee Camera Pro, and an old LG G3. Same internal scene, same composition (sorry, no images yet). Here's what I noticed, all EXIF info reported by Google Photos:

A. iPhone stock app: f/1.8, ISO 32, shutter 1/50, file size 2.1MB. Some watercolour effect, most noticeable on skin texture and items that were not focussed.

B. ACDSee Camera Pro (Sharpening 25, Clarity 15, JPEG quality - Standard): f/1.8, ISO 25, shutter 1/50, file size 2.6MB. Considerably less watercoloring, but still apparent.

C. ACDSee Camera Pro (RAW, converted to JPG by Google Photos): f/1.8, ISO 50, shutter 1/35, file size 11MB/2.2MB (RAW/JPG). No hint of the watercolour effect, as expected. Note, Google Photos automatically converted this to a JPG file with file size 2.2MB

D. ACDSee Camera Pro (JPG derived automatically from RAW file - NOT a DNG preview): f/1.8, ISO 50, shutter 1/33, file size 2.8MB. ***?! The worst case of the watercolour effect I've seen from an iPhone. It's more like poster paint.

E. LGG3 Stock Camera: f/2.4, ISO 100, shutter 1/30. On par with image B.

I'm beginning to think that one contributing factor to this issue is the wider aperture on the iPhone. As most photographers know, a wider aperture results in a much shallower depth of field.

Hey guys, so I too commented a few days ago in the same frustration. Since then I've realized that for some pictures to come out better, the lighting needs to be good and your camera focused on your subject well with the proper exposure for your shots. Also to be able to take advantage of taking pictures in RAW format on the iPhone 7 you'll have to use a third party app that offers that feature. I think taking pictures in RAW format will began to take up more space than a regular jpeg image, but in RAW format you do get the full resolution of your images a lot better.

Might it be useful to post the date of manufacture of our iPhone? We might discover those made after a certain date are more likely to be plagued by this problem. I've used this application (Mac only) to find the manufature date: http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutid/. You could also use this website: http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html.

The images from my phone are not too bad, even in low light, but still exhibit some waterpaint effect, though not nearly as much as shown in some of the posts.

My iPhone 7 256GB version was made between 19 and 25 September, apparently.