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I ”upgraded” my iPhone 8 Plus to the iPhone 12 Pro and it’s terrible! It doesn’t focus well and it takes many attempts to get the color correct, and by that time, I’m not even sure if what I think is correct is correct. Maybe I got a dud. Very frustrating!
I actually kept my 8 Plus and discovered I can charge it up and take pictures even though it’s not activated, so I do that occasionally.
My husband has an ancient iPhone X and it takes excellent pictures!
Which iPhone does your husband have that you mentioned you used in the garnet thread @TL? I thought the pictures looked very nice!
What a coincidence they both have the X! It does take much better gemstone pictures with more accurate colors than the 12 Pro in my experience.
I was told that the 12’s weren’t really designed with macro photography in mind when I had complained to Apple about the issues I was having. I’m not sure about the newer 13 & 14 iPhones, but I would hope they are better than the 12!
I stand corrected - I clearly don't know what I'm talking about!![]()
What a coincidence they both have the X! It does take much better gemstone pictures with more accurate colors than the 12 Pro in my experience.
I was told that the 12’s weren’t really designed with macro photography in mind when I had complained to Apple about the issues I was having. I’m not sure about the newer 13 & 14 iPhones, but I would hope they are better than the 12!
I have an iphone SE 2 and it takes decent pictures, but does not represent all colors properly. I have a color change teal/purple sapphire. When it's teal, the phone photo still shows purple!
Guess I need to upgrade the phone![]()
I have an iphone SE 2 and it takes decent pictures, but does not represent all colors properly. I have a color change teal/purple sapphire. When it's teal, the phone photo still shows purple!
Guess I need to upgrade the phone![]()
Color change gems are impossible to photograph!! So are emeralds, but green always causes issues it seems.
This is a problem for all cameras, not just phone cameras. It almost always comes up when colour change stones are mentioned here.
Here is an example I set up a while ago, with a colour change garnet (I guess sort of similar to your sapphire) and my DSLR (Nikon D7000). Left as shot, with basic processing (white balance, exposure), right edited to show what I saw:
The basic problem is that camera sensor spectral sensitivity curves differ from those of our cone cells (all curves normalized to max 1):
The curves are for my camera, but no camera I know of does a much better job of matching the cone cell curves. In plain words, cameras see colour differently from our eyes.
The wonder is that cameras do as well as they do, not that they sometimes get it wrong. You might just get lucky with a particular stone, camera and lighting. But don't count on it.
My bad, he corrected me and said he had the iPhone XR? Is the camera different? Than the X?
I can't speak to the iphone, unfortunately, because I started as a Samsung person, and haven't had the courage to move on from it. I love my Galaxy Z Flip 4 for everything but photos. It's not the coloration that's a problem though, it's just impossible to focus on fine detail.
Detail is an issue, but the real problem is that no matter how great a camera is, a photo is still a 2D depiction of something that needs to be seen in 3D to fully appreciate. Hey maybe one day we’ll have metaverse 3D camera shots!
Check out the stereo pair on p93. It's amazing! The individual images look flat and dead. The fused image shimmers.In this article we discuss at great length matters of human perception including the biology and mechanisms as they pertain to diamonds. Especially the fact that we view diamonds with two eyes.
https://www.researchgate.net/public...tion_and_fire_depend_on_human_vision_features
Detail is an issue, but the real problem is that no matter how great a camera is, a photo is still a 2D depiction of something that needs to be seen in 3D to fully appreciate. Hey maybe one day we’ll have metaverse 3D camera shots!
Good point. As Gary H likes to say, we have two eyes. Much of the magic of faceted stones comes from 'binocular rivalry'. A facet might catch the light as viewed by one eye but not the other. Result: a magic shimmer.