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

Started Jun 3, 2020 | Photos thread
Iron Mike
OP MOD Iron Mike Contributing Member • Posts: 540
Conclusion and a Final image

Conclusion and a Final Image

Overall I think that the iPhone 11 standard wide camera has a lot of potential especially for scenes with a lower DR (and raw capture) or those with a wide DR and the default camera. I would still like to take a look at manually capturing and converting a HDR bracket set of dng’s made with Lightroom. I’m not going to get rid of my 5DIV anytime soon, especially for larger prints and telephoto images, but the phone may be “good enough” for an everyday carry-arround. The iPhone 11 ultra-wide camera quality is even worse in the corners than the telephoto unfortunately, and doesn’t support dng output.

I was also surprised by how well the 7D stood up. Banding and noise even at base iso, oversaturated oranges and a wonky autofocus system led me to abandon the camera for the 5DIV, but there are work-arounds with careful processing for the IQ issues and it still takes nice photographs (I couldn’t get past the autofocus problems though).

I’d be happy to hear your thoughts on these comparisons.

I’ll leave you with a final image I took of the last scene with the 5D, attaching an ND filter to blur the water and applying some further processing in Photoshop CC to add a bit of Orton glow to the trees behind the bridge, and clone out some distractions.

Cheers,

Mike

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