Colours have been boosted thanks to improvements of the dynamic range – with Apple believing it has the ‘best colour accuracy in the industry’.īattery life is a little better than the iPhone X and storage goes all the way up to 512GB, which is great for image storage. There's a sizeable 5.8-inch OLED panel (2436 x 1125px) with a 458ppi pixel density, which works fantastically well for both viewing images and to set shots up from. The big point here, though, is that the iPhone X is no longer available from Apple so if you have yet to jump to an X-branded iPhone then you will find a lot to love here. But the changes made really do enhance the quality of the images you are taking. In our early tests, there isn't a huge amount of difference in camera quality on the iPhone X and the iPhone XS. (opens in new tab) iPhone XS camera verdict In the keynote, it claimed that the adjustment of depth of field (from f/1.4 to f/1.6) was something that hasn’t been possible in photography of any type of camera.īut it’s a feature we have seen on the Samsung Galaxy S9 and companies such as Lytro have made it a big feature in the past – albeit in slightly different guises (Apple's USP, it claims, is the ability to change the aperture) and perhaps not offering as much manual control that's on display here. Compared to the iPhone X, images have a touch more color and saturation, and it resembles a good hybrid of the Pixel 2 XL and the Samsung Galaxy Note 9.īecause of the XS' processing power, we noticed enhancements in darker areas and the phone balanced highlights, lowlights and detail well.ĭepth Control is an interesting one for Apple. Images we superbly detailed and oozing the colour and sharpness we have all come to expect when you add HDR into the mix. In our test, in day-to-day conditions, the shots taken were decent. Where we saw Auto HDR on the iPhone X, Smart HDR sees Apple make use of its lack of shutter lag and use a ‘four-frame buffer’ when you take images of a moving image. Given HDR is the big buzzword of the moment (and for good reason), it’s great to see Apple enhance this feature with the iPhone XS. The depth of the pixels has also been improved, meaning you’ve got theoretically faster autofocus, although we didn’t notice much of an improvement there in our tests. Going from 1.22µm to 1.4µm is significant and having this backed by the A12 Bionic chip means the software has gone through a number of improvements. The (literally) biggest change is to the sensor size. ![]() ![]() Specs-wise, there is very little difference between the iPhone XS and iPhone X – the f-stops are the same, the optical zoom (2x) and digital zooms (10x) are the same, as is the dual optical image stabilisation. One of the big new features can be found in portrait mode - once you take a portrait shot, you can go to the phone gallery, tap edit and adjust the background blur with the slider. It's easy to flip through the two 'zoom' levels by tapping the '1x' icon that can be found on the screen. ![]() Settings, surprising for a smartphone, are kept to a minimum which makes it fuss free to shooting images. The camera on the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Mac is easy to use. On paper, all of this sounds great, but how did it test in the field? iPhone XS: camera performance The two main features to note: Smart HDR, which combines faster sensors and better smarts from Apple’s new A12 Bionic chip for a more rounded and impressive picture, and a new Depth Control option (where you can manually adjust the aperture from f/1.4 to f/16 after the shot is taken to bring greater blur to the background of a Portrait mode photo). We’re diligent, but not to that level).īoil this down and it means that red eye should be a thing of the past, something that never appeared in our tests, and it offers much greater control in post-production. Features that run alongside this include the dot projector and IR camera that Apple uses for Face ID and takes advantage of for a number of new photo processing upgrades.Īll of this hardware is powered by the A12 Bionic chip, which – working with the phone’s image signal processor (ISP) – boasts some eye-opening features.įor a start, this power bump means the iPhone can make a trillion operations per photo (Apple’s boast, not something we counted in our tests. Speed is utterly of the essence here, with a new 7MP sensor that’s now ‘double the speed’ of its predecessor – this has been given a f/2.2 lens. ![]() Optical image stabilisation is also present and correct and the True Tone flash that impressed many on the iPhone X is back with a vengeance, with greater powers to give a more accurate color reproduction.įlip to the front of the phone and Apple has tinkered under the bonnet with the front TrueDepth camera.
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