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iPhone 4S picture quality poor

I couldn't disagree more. A quick trip to flickr and some of the specialist point-and-shoot groups out there and you will find some truly spectacular photos. I've printed several poster prints from both point & shoot and a DSLR and you'd be hard pushed to know which picture was taken with which camera.

And in decent conditions even the iPhone is capable of pretty decent pictures.


it may just be me since my entire background from college and in my professional career I've been heavily involved in digital art and photography so i tend to look at photo's and art with much more scrutiny then most people do.

Yes i agree with Rocko A lot depends on the photographer but even the best photographer wont be able to get stellar results with a POS camera. I'm not saying the 4S camera is a POS either im just saying its good for what it is but its just average when compared to any consumer camera.
 
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I think the real problem is in iOS 5, becasue my iphone 4 with ios4 take beautiful pictures and since i update have some troubles at fucus the detailed images, and when i get my 4S the camera was poor but i dont undestand how 8mpx have poor details and the iphone 4 captures are better... look at the next images and download it, then compare and finally decide.... my 4s of 5 or more pics one are good... not excellent... only good... what happens apple?? I really miss the iPhone camera quality........ at the school when I take pictures of the board... :(

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Here's a picture I took with my 4s. No editing whatsoever.


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Here's a picture I took with my 4s. No editing whatsoever.


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Looks pretty good to me. The phone I had before my iPhone 4 was the Sony Ericsson Satio which boasted a 12.1MP camera. The photographs taken with the Satio wasn't as good as the 5MP 4s. I reckon after a certain size MP it becomes a waste. 5MP is about right.


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Looks pretty good to me. The phone I had before my iPhone 4 was the Sony Ericsson Satio which boasted a 12.1MP camera. The photographs taken with the Satio wasn't as good as the 5MP 4s. I reckon after a certain size MP it becomes a waste. 5MP is about right.


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The i4 is 5mp. The i4s is 8mp


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I personally have had many of the 4 and 4s iPhones and to the average person like me then they both seem to be about the same Except for color
 
I get great results with the 4S, and I like it a lot. I think it's true that higher end cameras will do better. I think everyone here can just say "duh" to that. What I think is silly is saying that (or implying) that the iPhone cant produce anything "remotely good." You are just plain wrong. It can. It does. End of story. The web is FULL of examples. This forum is full of examples. My photo roll on my iPhone is full of examples. The iPhone (4 or 4s - hell, even the 3) can produce good - no, GREAT - looking photos. Again, if you disagree, then you are wrong. Plain and simple.

The rub is, maybe they don't look good to YOU. That's fine.

Now I am sure you can list off an entire list of photography terms and qualifications that would, frankly, bore me and not impress me in the least. But, if you had ANY grasp of just how insignificant I am, you wouldn't care a bit about impressing me. The bottom line is that there are millions of us who are thrilled with the quality of the pics on the iPhone.

I mean no disrespect, but I strongly believe the following is completely true: There are "snap-shooters" and "photographers." Snap-shooters just want to take pics of things we like, and we want to enjoy the way our pics look. We don't (in general) spend much on camera's. We don't (in general) carry camera's around. Photographers want to take pics that OTHER people will like, they want OTHER people to enjoy looking at their pics. They spend THOUSANDS of dollars on cameras. They almost always (in general) have some sort of fancy camera near by. They (quite unintentionally I believe) become picture snobs. When a snap-shooter dares to have the audacity to imply that something we shot on a cheap camera or (gasp) even a device that is a camera only as a secondary function even approaches the quality of the super-heroic and awesome DSLR/SLR devices of the gods.... well, the photographers tend to take it personally.

You can spot em a mile away - they always give back handed, grudgingly offered compliments to cheaper cameras, but their bottom line is always the same: it's not a "real" picture unless it was taken by a multi-billion dollar camera designed by Zeus himself.

Ya see - I play guitar. I know other guitarists - we call ourselves "musicians." Let some kid get a $100 setup and post a video of himself playing a version of "Stairway to Heaven" that he spent all night learning... and we will eviscerate him for daring to enter our arena with such shoddy weapons. We will destroy him for even thinking about existing in our world with such unworthy tools (not to mention his pitiful skills - how DARE he not be born with years of skill at his command!) We are terrible human beings - we suck.

I think all people are like that in some area or another.

For most of us, the iPhone is great, and it takes great looking pictures. For some of us - the iPhone will NEVER take a good looking pics. The difference is, snap-shooters AND photographers carry iPhones (or some other camera-phone). I would say it's ALL of our "first grab" cameras.

But hey, I'm just a dumb guitar playin' dude - what do I know?

Seriously, I meant no disrespect - I just see this a LOT lol.

Take care,
Rob
 
I'm not impressed at all the my 4S camera.

Nearly everything I take with it is out of focus. Taking decent photos of any subject which is even remotely moving is impossible.

The flash also makes photos look washed out.

One thing I noticed was there is a (not so) tiny white speck of dust under the lens (not in the middle, but somewhere halfway to the edge under the glass.)
Not sure if that could be an issue.
 
I'm not impressed at all the my 4S camera.

Nearly everything I take with it is out of focus. Taking decent photos of any subject which is even remotely moving is impossible.

The flash also makes photos look washed out.

One thing I noticed was there is a (not so) tiny white speck of dust under the lens (not in the middle, but somewhere halfway to the edge under the glass.)
Not sure if that could be an issue.

Stop moaning and take it to apple if there's a problem apple will swap it for you


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Stop moaning and take it to apple if there's a problem apple will swap it for you


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I'm not sure if there is a problem though... or if the iPhone 4s camera is just ... not very good.
 
As long as you don't have a case that is close to the flash, you understand how this types of micro flash works and you know how to work with fixed focal length cameras with quarter second focus delays, it is actually an excellent camera for taking stills.
 
Well.. I bought a cheap pentalobe screwdriver, slipped the back off the phone and cleaned the large spec of dust from the inside of the lens.
Pictures seem to be coming out in focus now. :)
 
eyephonefour said:
It's funny how the OP claims to have 50 years of experience with photography but can't can really distinguish between optical and digital zoom or realize that mobile phone cameras have always been poor in any low light situation, including point/shoot cameras!

Not really... It's likely that most of the OP's experience is with film. I don't think it's fair to assume and make judgements based on the information here (just MY opinion).

I've been using phones for more than 50 years (I promise), but if you start picking my brain on many of the intricacies of the iPhone or any cell phone for that matter, you might scoff at my claim of 50 years of phone usage.

I assure you that I've used cell phones since nearly day one (I used to have a bag phone in my car) but most kids and others on this forum have much more specialized knowledge of the iPhone than I do. That doesn't mean that you know how to place a call, and talk on the phone better than I do.

My point is, don't be so condescending towards the OP. I actually have a good friend that makes some real money as a professional photographer for over 50 years, and he's never touched a digital camera (and if you ever read magazines with nature / human scenery, you've probably admired his work). 100% of his substantial income comes from film work.

I agree that digitally zoomed and low light photos are of poor quality.
 
I don't think it's fair to assume and make judgements based on the information here...

But this is the internet. :mad:

A place for belittling people and trolling... not for helping people and being nice.
 
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