The following reflects my anecdotal review of the iPhone 13 Pro camera system from the point of view of a photographer. The only question I have going forward is whether I prefer the ease, simplicity, and iPhone-quality of this iPhone-only workflow, or if I prefer the cumbersome, post-intensive, Canon-quality of my dedicated camera. This is the first year that my entire photography workflow can be handled by my iPhone on its own. And all iPhones before that either lacked the ability to resize photos, or lacked Macro Mode, or lacked this or lacked that. The 11 Pro lacked ProRAW and all the editing capabilities ProRAW provides. With the 12 mini, the screen and battery were both too small for meaningful photo edits in Adobe Lightroom. It’s always been a workflow of balancing multiple devices to achieve multiple goals. I’ve shared, uploaded, and resized those photos for the web or for friends and family.įor me, this is unprecedented. I’ve edited ProRAW photos in Adobe Lightroom, changed focus points in Cinematic videos, and used and tuned Photographic Styles to my liking. I’ve shot product photos here for The Sweet Setup. I’ve shot a range of Live Photos, Portrait Mode, Macro Mode, Cinematic Mode, and standard video in the last few weeks.

The 13 Pro has quickly become a camera first and a phone second. The iPhone 13 Pro has taken a very different role than the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 12 mini of years past. It was largely relegated to the role of “the best camera is the one you have with you,” with a giant shrug. The iPhone 12 mini was neither phone nor camera for me - battery life was so abysmal and the camera so sub-optimal that I generally chose to neither use it as a phone or a camera. That camera system was great and the iPhone superb, but I remember my time with that iPhone as a phone first, camera second. The last Pro-iPhone I used was the iPhone 11 Pro. The extra wait time also allowed me to temper review expectations, allow the iPhone to settle more into regular (non-honeymoon) routine, and showcase its benefits in more lasting ways. Hindsight is 20/20 - coming from the iPhone 12 mini means the 13 Pro’s size is more manageable than the jump from mini-to-Max, doubly so when shooting photos. I scaled back expectations and opted for the iPhone 13 Pro with 128GB storage instead. Seeing all the wonderful photographic creativity hitting my Instagram and Glass feed pushed me to the brink. I was in that iPhone 13 Pro Max queue and eventually gave up. The cellphone store next to our office still hasn’t received a single iPhone 13 Pro Max to sell. Supply chain issues have taken their toll on would-be iPhone 13 Pro Max owners or anyone wanting an iPhone with more than 128GB of onboard storage. However, all iPhone 13 models do have a Lightning port.Getting an iPhone 13 Pro was a bit of a headache this year. While the headphone jack is a thing of the past for iPhones, some had predicted that the rise of MagSafe accessories last year meant the next iPhone would be portless. But despite the buzz generated by images of the phone, it now seems more likely that it was a CGI imperfection in postproduction rather than a sneak peek of Apple's new iPhone. Some speculated that the phone in question could have been the iPhone 13. In two brief scenes of season 2 episode 6, we see an iPhone without a notch running iOS. Some people thought that we had gotten a glimpse of a notchless iPhone during an episode of the popular Apple TV Plus series Ted Lasso. At Tuesday's event, Apple confirmed the iPhone 13's notch is 20% smaller than it was on the iPhone 12. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo in March predicted that the iPhone 13 would have a smaller notch than its predecessors.

A smaller notchĪpple has included a notched display on every iPhone since the 2017 iPhone X as a place for the selfie camera. These sizes are the same as the iPhone 12, but slightly thicker and heavier. The iPhone 12 Pro models are available in silver, graphite, gold and Pacific blue. In comparison, the iPhone 12 comes in six colors: deep blue, minty green, Project Red, white, black and, most recently, purple. The iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max come in four different colors, including the buzzy new Sierra blue. The iPhone 13 and 13 Mini come in five colors, including a moody midnight hue and the long-rumored and oft-wished-for pink.

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