iPhone 15 Camera Features Not to Use
The iPhone 15 camera offers a lot of options and settings, but some of them produce bad photos. Here are the features not to use:
Flash1
RAW2
Video that’s low frame rate (less than 60 FPS), low resolution (less than UHD), or SDR.
Low resolution photos (less than 48 MP)3.
Old codecs like H264 and JPEG4.
If you want to know which features to use, read:
Which camera settings work best on the iPhone 15
If you use an iPhone 15, this guide will tell you which settings to use to capture the best photos. If, on the other hand, you’re interested only in timelapses, read this guide.
It destroys the ambience of the scene.
I’m not referring to ProRAW, which my iPhone 15 non-Pro doesn’t even have, but to the RAW that iPhones 6s onwards have supported.
48 MP photos are better than 24, which are better than 12. At 48 MP, I can see that the roof of a distant mall has 4 dish antennas. Besides, when capturing a landscape in daytime, at 12 and 24, it appears dark, which is obviously not how it is in real life. (Not as dark as RAW, though.) As another example, at 24, a hint of yellow light appears that wasn’t in the scene, while 48 MP was truer to life. Apple uses a lot of algorithms on photos, which can make it look artificial. These algorithms are toned down at 48 MP, resulting in more natural-looking photos.
The iPhone sometimes can’t capture at 48 MP, such as when you’re taking a Live Photo. In such circumstances, choose 24, since it’s better than 12.
They fill up your storage, both on your devices and cloud quota, and take longer to sync.