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A Landscape comparison of the iPhone with Canon APS-C and FF

Started Jun 3, 2020 | Photos thread
Iron Mike
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Image set 3

Image set 3

In this final set of test shots I took a series of images of the river near a pedestrian footbridge. I used some longer focal lengths to match the tele (52mm) lens on the iPhone. The exposures were chosen to try and avoid clipping the highlights in the sunlit foliage.

This is the raw capture of the scene with the 5D (with default LR tone curve, daylight WB and default sharpening) for comparison.

I processed the 5D image to taste, using all of the tools available in ACR to adjust the colour and tonality throughout the image.

The 7D image looks similar here, although the greens and oranges are quite punchy again (I desaturated them a bit for this shot). There is a bit of shadow noise again but it’s pretty good actually.

The raw capture from LR mobile looks similar in overall tonality, but has a lot more shadow noise and is not very sharp in the corners on the left side. I would greatly prefer either DSLR here, but at small sizes it's ok.

The default iPhone cam capture has good overall tonality, but a bit too much highlight compression (sunlit trees) compared to the raw processing. Left corners are still very soft (tele lens is not great, but should be fine for portraits), but the noise is better with the HDR processing.

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