It has been a full week for the reason that new iPhone 16 fashions launched, and we have now had sufficient time to provide the Digicam Management button and the digital camera setup a extra in-depth look. We examined the iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max, which have triple-lens rear digital camera setups with 48-megapixel Fusion lens, 48-megapixel Extremely Large lens, and 5x Telephoto lens.
The Digicam Management button has turned out to be nice for shortly launching the digital camera and snapping pictures and movies, however the extra in-depth changes that require gentle presses and swiping are tougher to get used to.
It is nonetheless faster to get to those controls within the Digicam app itself by tapping on the show. Possibly that is a matter of getting used to the brand new setup, nevertheless it’s additionally tougher to make use of the button in portrait orientation than panorama mode, and lots of people take pictures in portrait orientation lately. On the iPhone 16 Professional Max particularly, the button is simply too low to be comfy to make use of when holding the system vertically.
New this 12 months is the 48-megapixel Extremely Large lens, and it is a huge enchancment over the prior 12-megapixel Extremely Large lens. Apple is utilizing pixel binning to mix 4 pixels into one, in the end offering a 12-megapixel completed picture, however merging pixels permits for extra element and improved high quality in low gentle.
The 5x Telephoto lenses have not modified, however you will get 5x optical zoom on the 16 Professional along with the Professional Max, which is new this 12 months. The “Fusion” digital camera can be principally an identical to the “Important” digital camera from final 12 months, and you continue to have the settings to decide on between 24mm, 28mm, and 35mm lenses.
Photographic Kinds are an important addition for tweaking the look of a picture, and the pad for changes is beneficial to get a singular temper with minimal effort. Ensure to take a look at our video above to see it in motion.
For videographers, the choice to shoot in 4K 120 fps is tremendous helpful, particularly as a result of you possibly can gradual it down or pace it up in publish manufacturing. The Audio Combine function for altering the audio additionally actually makes a distinction for capturing video.
We’ve got some iPhone 16 Professional digital camera comparisons coming, the place we pit the iPhone 16 Professional towards another flagship smartphones. Keep tuned to MacRumors to see these movies subsequent week.