iPhone 11 Pro steps in the ring against Fuji GFX 100 in the other corner. David versus Goliath. Can you guess which of the images is shot on a mobile phone? No, it's not a trick question.
Ten years back, such an article would have been inconceivable. But today, we've seen mobile devices step up their game and try to compete with the quality and look of images from cameras that are considered not just for professionals, but for high-end productions: medium format cameras. This is the case with photographer Josh Rossi, who takes a bold step to compare his $13,000 Fuji GFX 100 against the iPhone 11 Pro. If you think it matters, the Fuji has 100 MP, while the iPhone has 12 MP. Both devices are shooting in raw mode. Ross shows the original photos without any color or contrast corrections and the versions after a few minor tweaks. The results are really surprising. The photographer also creates a poster with an image shot on the iPhone. You can see the result at the end of the video.
With the advancement of the mobile phones, photographers that rely entirely on the technical advantages of their cameras, such as shallow depth of field and resolution, will have to either step down or find a greater advantage to market themselves with. Today, non-professionals are able produce shallow depth of field with a device that can also make calls.
The iPhone Pro looks pretty damn good.
Not a fan, not an owner, but I can say the same.
I definitely don’t need my A7iii now! Jk jk jk :)
FIne ! Stop using crap but expensive camera ! Get an iPhone !
That's what we preachin'
Poor guy, got rooked into spending $13,000 when all he had to do was buy an iPhone...
Don’t forget the iPhone 11 pro costs more than many DSLRs, more even than some full-frame cameras. It’s not a cheap option.
And the usability still sucks ass.
Because you can call someone or post an image to Facebook or Instagram, which you can't do with a DSLR :)
But you can also do those things with the $100 phone you can buy with the money left over after buying a real camera instead of the iPhone 11 Pro.
One of the Youtube comments got it right, "Photoshop vs $13,000 camera".
Amazing, the stain on the woman's shirt was tack sharp with both cameras
Maybe the future for image professionals is with fixing all the camera phone images.
Id like to see the e comparison with out-of -camera jpegs. The raws from many cameras don't necessarily look great . Taking the raw image skips a lot of Apples computational treatment as well .
I'd really like to see what the built in prcesssing csn do .
Watch the video. He shows the raws.
I got them both right via my Small I iPhone 8 display ... but it took a second look.
Re do this this with a more normal or larger picture size to represent an 11 x 14 then a 30 x 50 and you will know why more buck is more bang.
I often use my IPhone but not for large prints.
My I phone is the only Mirrorless I need .. hear that Nikon Canon Sony and all you Fstooper GearHeads ???
There are dozens of Youtube articles comparing photos between smartphones of all kinds and DSLR's but I guess it's iPhone so it warrants a post :-)
A couple of things. First, just about every comparison I've seen like this has images taken under either good outdoor lighting or controlled indoor lighting. Second, how about making some 20X30 prints?
I would guess that most of those that buy a $13000 MF camera aren't concerned about how the shots look on a phone or computer screen. Yes, the I-phone takes good images, but if you're going to make a fair comparison, shoot the phone under conditions that the MF camera is in its element, say, high contrast images with deep shadows and bright hilites.
Or, go to an air show, leave the $13000 camera at home and take a D500 and a 200-500 Nikon lens, about $3000 new. Now the prices are a lot closer, but the results will tell a much different story than the above video.
I should’ve done a comparison video last month when I was in Yellowstone between my dslr and a iphone 11 Pro and see if people could tell the difference, I’m betting 100% would be able. I don’t think a phone will be replacing my 1dx2 and 600 F4 IS II anytime soon.
STOP
Dude, if you are photoshopping images, you cannot use them to compare anything. Your title is just another form of click bait.
I’m not sure of your point. I could likely scan old Kodachrome images and edit them in PS and also achieve medium-format quality.
I've long been an advocate of mobile phone cameras and as their tech improves don't knock them, plus they are always with you and they can pay your bills! Still need my long fast lens for tech stuff so DSLR is here to stay but iPhone 11 Pro Max is a dream.
"The iPhone 11 Pro Max starts at £1149". About $1450 US.
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/iphone-11-pro-release-date-price-spe...
Not trying to be rude, but...yawn? Everyone's known this for years. Is it really that big a deal anymore?
Take the iPhone on a real shoot. Challenging lighting/dynamic range, tight crops, or big prints.
Hell, drop it and see how well it does compared to a proper mirrorless or dslr. This is kinda just boring.
Ridiculous. An iPhone is fine to compare stills in a video / viewing on screen, maybe even a portrait. Lets see how a detailed landscape compares or a largish print, how about a product shot for a brochure where you need to create a believable clipping mask around some detail. What counts most is the photographer, some things no $13k or iPhone camera can't compensate for.
The Iphone fake blur around the hair is still horrendous. Dead giveaway.
This. The iPhone still can't handle the edge details to make portrait mode look realistic.
To be fair, no phone can... yet. Give it a couple more years for the computational photography to iron out its kinks and it will kick a traditional camera’s ass.
1: i got them both right viewing on my 6 inch cellphone screen. The differences would be way more obvious on my computer screen. 2. When i learned that you photoshopped the iphone image, i immediately stopped the video. Congrats, i am a victim of clickbait.
About posting the original Raw files. So what I get from this video, is that they are very close. The only thing is you first have to fix the Iphone image... Sure, but then, you also need the file from the Fuji first to use as guide to fix the phone image in a comparative way... I'm pretty certain that 99.something of phone owners don't have interest in learning how to color correct. I know enough DSLR owners who already don't want to deal with colors, phones... forget it.
Just show up at your next gig with an iPhone and tell us how that goes. Much of the general public still equates the size of the camera with the quality of the work.
A mediocre photo from a phone is better than no photo. I do not carry my DSLR around with me all the time. I do love the convenience of the phone cameras these days, but when it comes down to taking photos and not just snapshots, the versatility and instant access to all the camera controls of a dedicated camera cannot be beat.
Photographer compares 100MP image against Photoshopped 12MP image on an 8MP display and doesn't see much difference, sigh .....
And illustrates this on a 2MP video.
...but zoomed on the images
Not a fair comparison. Comparing a Photo-shopped image with an unedited image? Lame.
This is beyond pointless. I could easily tell on a crappy 1366x768 dell screen not even in full screen mode. With enough time in photoshop you can make anything look amazing, but that's when you have to decide whether it's more worth it to you to spend the time and save the money, or spend the money and save the time.
It's like, could you hand plow a 100 acre plot of land? Sure, but it would take you ages vs using a tractor.
If the camera, lens, and lighting can do it, you can save a lot of time in post-processing. I was waiting for someone to mention the time aspects of it. Thanks, Lutsenko.
"The best camera ever is the one that you have in your back pocket". Welcome to the world of photography in 2019.
Who wants to be lugging a super large DSLR and a bag full of lenses on a 10-mile hike? The beauty of mirrorless and cell phones is that you're more likely to have a great camera on you. I got rid of my 5D after I found I wasn't taking it out anymore because of the weight.. Sold it and went a XT-2. All depends what you are using the camera for. But man, cell phones today are just great. I often look at the pictures my kids are getting.. I am blowing out the sky and that iPhone comes back with a perfectly balanced shot.. Editing 100 RAW files is also starting to become a task I don't want to continue doing much longer. Maybe its time I go a simple X-100 and call it a day.
"The best camera ever is the one that you have in your back pocket". Welcome to the world of photography in 2019.
Who wants to be lugging a super large DSLR and a bag full of lenses on a 10-mile hike? The beauty of mirrorless and cell phones is that you're more likely to have a great camera on you. I got rid of my 5D after I found I wasn't taking it out anymore because of the weight.. Sold it and went an XT-2. All depends on what you are using the camera for. But man, cell phones today are just great. I often look at the pictures my kids are getting.. I am blowing out the sky and that iPhone comes back with a perfectly balanced shot.. Editing 100 RAW files is also starting to become a task I don't want to continue doing much longer. Maybe its time I go a simple X-100 and call it a day.
I traded in my Canon FF system on Micro Four Thirds gear, a thing that began six years back and completed in 2018 when I sold off the Canon stuff. And yeah, the Olympus gear is what I take on a 10 mile hike: sometimes a single zoom, sometimes a bag of lenses, occasionally a battery grip on the E-M1 Mark II just because I need a little more weight for exercise purposes. After all, I'm going to have a larger bag of gear when I'm walking 15-20 miles a day exploring a new country. I also bought an X-Pro1, just to mess around with Fujifilm.
If you don't like editing, try the demo of PhotoLemur on your raw images. It's not perfect, but it does the same sort of AI processing, only more, that you're going to get on your phone, as a batch conversion to JPEG. I don't use it all that often, but I did a bunch of shoots for work and decided to use it as an experiment, versus raw+jpeg in-camera and my very quick editing of the JPEG. Both PhotoLemur and my editing beat the in-camera JPEG. A few of the PhotoLemur photos were more to my liking than my quick edits, a number of my edits were better, but everying the AI delivered were usable and most about a draw.
Sure, a heavily photoshopped iPhone image shown in YouTube HD may be a bit difficult to tell... except when it wasn't. The shots of the woman were obvious to me in 20 femtoseconds, because the iPhone's fake bokeh is really obvious, even at 1080p. And of course, no raw image from any camera is intended to be displayed.
It doesn't mean a thing if what you're pointing your camera, or phone, at is not worth taking a picture of. If it is, then fill your boots with whatever device you're using because it will be a good picture (all other things considered like composition, lighting & timing that are applicable whatever camera is being used). Too many people forget that brilliant photographs, that we still look at today, were taken decades ago with cameras that would be considered 'inferior' to what's available now.
I happened this weekend to take a landscape with my iPhone (to send to my sister) and coincidentally took the same image with my RX100 (1" sensor), the difference was clear. Compressed into Facebook, Id be hard pressed to pick which is which.
Okay for actual iphone 11 pics.