Test: iPhone X's tele camera night shot proves Apple is wrong to disable it

06 November 2017
In the dark, the dual camera iPhones do 2x zoom by upscaling a photo from the wide camera. And the result is worse than the telephoto shot.

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Anonymous, 06 Nov 2017I don't see how he's wrong.you only have to look at sales and profit gains over the past quarter, and with the ridiculous cost of the iphone X their bank balances will continue to skyrocket, people who buy apple products will buy regardless of whats under the hood and the price tag, so yeah i think he is wrong that apple will struggle in 2018, the figures dont lie

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    • AnonD-551482
    • 2C5
    • 10 Nov 2017

    a simple "software update" would fix this... plus their are "third party" camera apps that already do this..

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      • AnonD-286832
      • Law
      • 08 Nov 2017

      Wow. GSMAreana, I really respect you for the effort and thoughts you put into your precious work. Could you share how you tricked the cam so it would shoot in the night? Just curious.. best regards ether way :)

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        • Anonymous
        • pQr
        • 07 Nov 2017

        Another issue could be that the tele camera's autofocus could be worse in low light.

          Anonymous, 07 Nov 2017Why? Do you think android user is poor because we can't aff... moreyes ... they cant event buy $0.99 apps ...

            Oh come on GSMArena!
            You're using the iPhone X's cameras so wrong! Shame on you!

              Anonymous, 07 Nov 2017Why? Do you think android user is poor because we can't aff... moreNot necessarily following trends, but because we have a brain that works and choose a better deal. It's like finding a point of getting a $1000 iOS flagship of this year that does almost half of what a $900 Android flagship 3 years ago can.

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                • AnonD-242383
                • 6Pp
                • 07 Nov 2017

                No use of buying expensive phone...waste of money....benefit to company

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                  • Anonymous
                  • tug
                  • 07 Nov 2017

                  Anonymous, 07 Nov 2017Ha ha ha. What a joke! Android and paid for apps in the sam... moreWhy? Do you think android user is poor because we can't afford iphone? We can but we don't want to waste our hard earned money just to follow herd or keeping up with trend

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                    • Anonymous
                    • vac
                    • 07 Nov 2017

                    Whats the point of this?

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                      • Anonymous
                      • vGN
                      • 07 Nov 2017

                      Both look like junk to me, like comparing rotten bananas to slightly less rotten bananas. Or is it an apple?

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                        • gML
                        • 07 Nov 2017

                        AnonD-1825, 06 Nov 2017IPhone X still camera best in the business DxOMark "Wit... moreMate pixel is now best camera phone

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                          • 07 Nov 2017

                          Anonymous, 07 Nov 2017Ha ha ha. What a joke! Android and paid for apps in the sam... moreAre you suggesting android users are thieves? mate you need to check with a doctor.

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                            • 07 Nov 2017

                            sa11oum, 06 Nov 2017It's pretty funny when a blogger sitting in his underwear e... moreLame commenters like you who's in their commandos eating cheetos.. These are professional journalists and sometimes they find what the public or even the company itself didn't know or maybe purposely hidden..

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                              • amq
                              • 07 Nov 2017

                              Anonymous, 06 Nov 2017Yeah, if you are an android user you can have the freedom t... moreHa ha ha. What a joke! Android and paid for apps in the same sentence!

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                                • 07 Nov 2017

                                Kd10, 06 Nov 2017That’s been the accepted methodology in photography since i... moreYou don't know that a wide angle lens exaggerates the size difference between near and far objects and a telephoto lens compresses the perspective? You only get the same perspective if you crop the wide angle shot to the same field as the telephoto shot, which results in resolution loss. Please do not correct people's comment when you have the wrong concepts.

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                                  • tht
                                  • 07 Nov 2017

                                  Lol the sample pictures lol, iphone X should be the best joke of the year

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • pQr
                                    • 07 Nov 2017

                                    Probably Apple disables the tele camera in low light as it won't capture as much light(will be noisier) as a 2x crop from the main camera. A 2x crop of the main camera has a full frame equivalent aperture of f/25
                                    The tele camera has a full frame equivalent aperture of f/20.6. So actually the tele camera captures more light when the shutter speed is the same. But the tele camera needs a faster shutter speed due to the larger focal length. So f/20.6 and half the exposure time captures less light than f/25. Though this only means that the image will be noisier, it doesn't mean that the second camera captures less detail than the first camera. Apparently Apple prefers less details + less noise instead of more details + more noise

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • pQr
                                      • 07 Nov 2017

                                      How did you trick the iPhone?

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • tPG
                                        • 07 Nov 2017

                                        ME, 06 Nov 2017My SE W800i made better picturesMy SE K800i as well:)