I may decide up my shiny new iPhone 14 Professional proper on the airport just some hours earlier than my aircraft departed. So I may use the iPhone 14 Professional throughout a photograph journey to a misplaced place in Germany. As all the time, this iPhone 14 Professional evaluation shouldn’t be technical. It is a hands-on evaluation primarily based on utilizing it for touring and images. I am going to replace this evaluation as I journey and take extra photographs with iPhone 14 Professional.
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iPhone 14 Professional vs. iPhone 14 Professional Max
Final yr I ordered the Professional Max model of the iPhone 13 as a result of I felt that the bigger display actual property was extra handy for photograph enhancing. Whereas that assumption was legitimate, the bigger type issue was additionally inconvenient for on a regular basis use.
These days I exploit an iPad mini 6 for enhancing photographs whereas touring.
So this yr, I purchased the smaller iPhone 14 Professional. The display is 0.6″ smaller in comparison with the iPhone 14 professional max. When it comes to pixels, you may get 3,01 million pixels with the iPhone 14 Professional, whilst you’ll have 3,6 million pixels on an iPhone 14 Professional Max. That is simply 17% fewer pixels on an iPhone 14 Professional than the iPhone 14 Professional Max. I can dwell with that. The pixel density (PPI) is equivalent for each iPhone 14 Professional fashions at 460 PPI.
Primarily based on a couple of days of utilizing it for images and touring, shopping for the smaller iPhone 14 Professional was the suitable choice for me. It matches completely into the pockets of trousers and jackets. Furthermore, it is extra handy to carry whereas taking photographs.
However there’s a notable distinction between the iPhone 14 professional and the iPhone 14 Professional Max: The battery capability. Whereas the iPhone 14 Professional’s battery has a complete of three,200 mAh, the iPhone 14 Professional Max battery has 4,323 mAh. So the iPhone 14 Professional battery has 25% much less capability than the iPhone 14 Professional Max, which is noticeable.
I needed to recharge my iPhone whereas photographing on website after taking about 220 ProRAW photographs. It appears like I am going to have to make use of my Anker magnetic battery extra usually with the iPhone 14 Professional – particularly when taking photographs.
iPhone 14 Professional Lenses and Digital camera
The iPhone 14 Professional and Professional Max have the identical three lenses:
- A 12-megapixel 3x telephoto lens
- A 12-megapixel ultrawide lens
- A 48-megapixel important lens
The 48-megapixel major lens was the primary motive I purchased the iPhone 14 professional. I have been ready for a bigger photograph decision for years.
However there is a catch. With the built-in digicam app, you’ll be able to solely take 48-megapixel photographs in the event you shoot utilizing Apple’s ProRAW format. There’s at the moment no approach to take 48-megapixel photographs in JPEG or HEIC format utilizing the built-in digicam app. For that, you may have to make use of a third-party digicam app like Halide or ProCamera. As I write this evaluation, ProCamera is rolling out model 16, which lets you toggle the primary digicam’s decision between 12 and 48 megapixels, independently of the file format.
To take 48 megapixel ProRAW photographs, you may must allow it first
To allow 48-megapixel ProRAW photographs, open the settings app, then:
- Scroll right down to the digicam settings and faucet it
- On the prime of the display, you may see codecs. Faucet it.
- Allow Apple ProRAW and set the ProRAW decision to 48 MP.
In case you plan to take 48-megapixel ProRAW photographs with the iPhone 14 Professional, guarantee you might have sufficient storage. I checked the file measurement of all 220 ProRAW photos I took with iPhone 14 Professional. The most important one was 93.2 megabytes! So 10 to fifteen photographs could devour 1 GB of the iPhone’s reminiscence.
Nevertheless, the bigger file measurement of the ProRAW recordsdata will lead to detail-rich photographs you might have by no means seen earlier than from an iPhone. I used to be merely blown away. On this photograph, you’ll be able to see the feel of the bricks, every department of that grows into the room, and all of the cracks within the partitions. It is simply wonderful.
