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Aquinus · Feb 14, 2025

I just recently upgraded my iPhone 11 Pro Max to a 16 Pro Max and after weeks of bone chilling cold, it finally warmed up a bit and the birdies came back for a little bit. I was hoping to get a picture of the same bird on the same branch to do a comparison between the phone and the camera, but this is the best I could do. Pretty big improvement for a phone, but the RP looks better, hands down.

Hyderz · Feb 14, 2025

On my almost 11 years old Sony a6000 with kit lens

FoulOnWhite · Feb 14, 2025

Here's a pic i took on the way to shop one morning. taken with my phone, not particularly framed or focussed but looks good.

bug · Feb 14, 2025

Ha! Driving on the left side

Aquinus · Feb 14, 2025

FoulOnWhite said:
Here's a pic i took on the way to shop one morning. taken with my phone, not particularly framed or focussed but looks good.
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I was actually pleasantly surprised at how well the iPhone 16 Pro Max captures a sunset. This isn’t even in 48MP mode. Granted, Apple does a lot of post processing.

bug · Feb 14, 2025

Aquinus said:
I was actually pleasantly surprised at how well the iPhone 16 Pro Max captures a sunset. This isn’t even in 48MP mode. Granted, Apple does a lot of post processing.
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Everybody does it

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0

FoulOnWhite · Feb 14, 2025

Aquinus said:
I was actually pleasantly surprised at how well the iPhone 16 Pro Max captures a sunset. This isn’t even in 48MP mode. Granted, Apple does a lot of post processing.
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Mine was very early in the morning. the sky did actually look like that, was pretty good.

the54thvoid · Feb 15, 2025

Smartphone's are great these days for pics, but they inject too much inference. I'll use AI to de-noise high ISO pics, but I don't necessarily like the hidden magic Android and Apple phones use to make things 'zingy.'

Here's my EOS R8, 35mm lens. Just a shot of my keyboard (getting old now). It was far lighter in the room, but I like the darkness the shutter speed and low ISO give.

abysal · Feb 25, 2025

the54thvoid said:
Smartphone's are great these days for pics, but they inject too much inference. I'll use AI to de-noise high ISO pics, but I don't necessarily like the hidden magic Android and Apple phones use to make things 'zingy.'

Here's my EOS R8, 35mm lens. Just a shot of my keyboard (getting old now). It was far lighter in the room, but I like the darkness the shutter speed and low ISO give.

I like this image, would make a cool wallpaper. I've found I don't worry too much in pushing ISO to the limits - even 25600 in some cases (usually push no further than 16000 if I don't have the light), because Adobe's LR noise reduction does an amazing job at producing a clean sharp de-noise'ed output.

scope54 · Thursday at 9:52 PM

Some of my favs from walking around last night.

Canon EOS R8 using EF-S 18-55mm lens

bug · Thursday at 11:01 PM

Yeah, 18mm is just not wide enough walking around the city.

scope54 · Friday at 2:35 PM

bug said:
Yeah, 18mm is just not wide enough walking around the city.

yea, I'm going to try with a different lens when i go to the office next week. Hopefully earlier in the day too.

bug · Friday at 4:30 PM

scope54 said:
yea, I'm going to try with a different lens when i go to the office next week. Hopefully earlier in the day too.

Ah, that's full-frame 18mm. Not easy to go wider than that. I think my widest is Tokina 17-35. Wider than that, they're either bulbs (no filters) or fisheye

scope54 · 2025-03-03T14:33:02+0000

Walked around downtown yesterday, here are some of my favorites:
Canon EOS R8 using RF 24-50mm F4.5-6.3

bug · 2025-03-03T15:29:31+0000

Must be a special feeling, living in Chicago, looking at the Sears Tower. Not entirely pleasant, perhaps, but special.

Aquinus · 2025-03-03T18:19:10+0000

I was in Boston the other day and saw 1 Financial Center all lit up. Had to use my phone as I was in the car stopped at a red light coming out of the I-93 tunnel.

bug · 2025-03-03T18:22:35+0000

Aquinus said:
I was in Boston the other day and saw 1 Financial Center all lit up. Had to use my phone as I was in the car stopped at a red light coming out of the I-93 tunnel.
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The most difficult lighting you could get...
I need a shed in the garden, something like that would do, I figure.

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