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iPhone 14 Pro Camera Testing: What Apple's New Cameras Can Do - CNET

iPhone 14 Pro Camera Testing: What Apple's New Cameras Can Do - CNET

iPhone 14 Pro Camera Testing: What Apple's New Cameras Can Do - CNET
Sep 20, 2022 2 mins, 41 secs

San Francisco's Mission District is where we tested out the iPhone's new 48-megapixel main camera, Cinematic mode and the new Action mode.

Factor in the new A16 Bionic chip, and you get features like a new video stabilization mode, the ability to film Cinematic mode videos in 4K, higher resolution ProRaw photos, and pictures and videos with better image quality when captured in medium- and low-light situations.

The iPhone 14 Pro has three rear cameras: a main wide-angle camera, an ultrawide, and a telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom.

Though more megapixels doesn't necessarily mean better photos, Apple divides the pixels into groups of four and combines the four in each group into one larger pixel.

This isn't the best photo I took with the iPhone 14 Pro, but it shows how the camera handles an everyday situation when things aren't bright and sunny.

The main camera takes excellent photos.

When the iPhone 11 series launched in 2019, it included Night mode, which takes a series of images over a few seconds and combines them to create a photo that's brighter and has better colors and less image noise.

Most of the time, Night mode needed just a couple of seconds to get a good photo in a bar or other dark locale.

Take a look at the photo below that I took indoors at Zeitgeist in the Mission.

Night mode took two seconds to capture this photo.

It was very dark and I used Night mode to take the photo.

This isn't my best Night mode snap with the new phone, but it shows what's capable under a less than ideal situation.

Had I put the phone on a tripod for a longer Night mode exposure time, or if the lights weren't as bright (compared with the dark cloudy sky), I think it would've been a better photo.

This was taken around 11 p.m., using Night mode.

It wasn't as dark as when I took the other two Night mode photos, but it definitely wasn't overly bright either.

Ultrawide photos and videos are still a step down compared with those from the main camera, but these improvements are welcome.

Macro photos also get a boost from the ultrawide camera upgrades.

When you try to take a photo with the main camera and are standing very close to a subject, the iPhone 14 Pro switches to the ultrawide camera and crops the framing to mimic the main camera.

Last year's 13 Pro had a similar feature, but with the new ultrawide, macro photos have better image quality, especially in medium and low light.

Under good lighting, like in the picture below, the telephoto camera takes good photos.

As with the ultrawide, image quality is a step behind the main camera -- especially in dimmer environments.

I took this photo of the Embarcadero's Ferry Building during blue hour, with the 14 Pro's telephoto camera.

Below is a Portrait mode picture of Maisie the cat taken indoors with the telephoto camera.

The 14 Pro did an excellent job at capturing how I actually looked when I took this photo.

The clips included videos shot in Action mode, slow motion, regular video mode and Cinematic mode

In places with less-than-ideal lighting, I found improvements when I took photos and recorded videos

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