Living with the Apple iPhone 6 camera: are 8 megapixels enough?It's no longer a secret - smartphones have become the world's most popular camera, and the Apple iPhone has a special place among them. Equipped with an 8-megapixel iSight camera with dual LED flash on its back, and a 1.2-megapixel selfie cam, no one can say that the iPhone 6 has the most megapixels, the larger sensor, or the widest aperture. Still, it has become the benchmark for smartphone cameras as evidenced by the countless companies that copy Apple's approach to the camera interface and experience.
Why do so many people, including professional photographers, share a passion for the camera in the iPhone 6? Is there a logical reason or is it just unconditional love for the Apple brand, as nay-sayers claim?
This is the final chapter of my personal one-month deep exploration of the hidden avenues of Apple's latest and greatest, and this time I focus solely on the camera and imaging experience. The iPhone 6, however, does not exist in a vacuum, and I will also share my impressions of how it feels to use it against its rivals. First, though, let's look at camera specs and how much they really matter.
Camera specs: what is it that really matters?
Apple has equipped the iPhone 6 with an 8-megapixel main camera. That's less than the 13-megapixel shooter on the LG G3, less than the 16-megapixel cameras on the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 4, and it's much less than the 20-megapixel cameras on Sony's Xperia Z3 and earlier flagships. Does this make the iPhone 6 an inferior camera? Some may shout out a confident 'yes' - in the general case, having less megapixels translates into less fine detail into images, but detail is just one aspect of an image, and arguably, one of the less important ones (unless we're speaking about landscape images that professional photographers capture and use for gigantic prints). If you want a proof, just look at our camera comparisons and polls where the 20-megapixel Xperia Z3 consistently loses to cameras with much less megapixels. Read more>>>>
This is the final chapter of my personal one-month deep exploration of the hidden avenues of Apple's latest and greatest, and this time I focus solely on the camera and imaging experience. The iPhone 6, however, does not exist in a vacuum, and I will also share my impressions of how it feels to use it against its rivals. First, though, let's look at camera specs and how much they really matter.
Camera specs: what is it that really matters?
Apple has equipped the iPhone 6 with an 8-megapixel main camera. That's less than the 13-megapixel shooter on the LG G3, less than the 16-megapixel cameras on the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 4, and it's much less than the 20-megapixel cameras on Sony's Xperia Z3 and earlier flagships. Does this make the iPhone 6 an inferior camera? Some may shout out a confident 'yes' - in the general case, having less megapixels translates into less fine detail into images, but detail is just one aspect of an image, and arguably, one of the less important ones (unless we're speaking about landscape images that professional photographers capture and use for gigantic prints). If you want a proof, just look at our camera comparisons and polls where the 20-megapixel Xperia Z3 consistently loses to cameras with much less megapixels. Read more>>>>
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