Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

IPhone camera's are improving at warp speed. Will they ever replace the Professional DSLR's. I guess the verdict is still out.

Question #2: Answer: https://fstoppers.com/apps/will-camera-flash-make-iphone-professional-camera-514314

Question 3 & 4 Answer: While I haven't used this app yet I probably will once I upgrade my phone to the new IPhone 12 Pro Max. https://halide.cam/ and https://apps.apple.com/us/app/halide/id885697368

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

https://fstoppers.com/apps/will-camera-flash-make-iphone-professional-camera-514314

This article talks about it. Like always, there's an app for that. :-)

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

If your slave flashes can respond to the flash on the smartphone it should be possible. Otherwise you will need to get advice from someone who has done it. I haven’t and wouldn’t bother.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

When taking photos with my iPhone in darkness, the phone turns on the light for a couple seconds, then turns it off and takes a photo with flash. Probably so it can focus on something. But that would make syncing with an external flash tricky. If there's enough light to focus then the light doesn't turn on and you just get the flash.

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

Click the flash symbol and then “On” and it will flash regardless.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

I guess I wasn't clear. That's true that the flash symbol controls whether the flash flashes. But if the phone can't see the image it can't focus so it turns the light on for a second or two to get focused, then it takes the photo with the flash. The phone turns the light on and off twice (focus, then flash). The problem with syncing with an external flash is the first time the light turns on the external flash would see that as a sync signal unless there's a way on the external flash to tell it to fire on the second time the light turns on.

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

It depends on whether your slave recognizes the difference between a light turning on long enough to focus and a flash burst which is much faster and more intense. Your slave might know the difference. You have to try it to find out.

Pmortx

kenArchi Loc: Seal Beach, CA

Seriously you have to add apps?
Does the iPhone 12 pro have manual focus?
Does it have manual flash?
Can you attach a flash trigger?
Can I set manual iso?
Is it just a P&S?
It says it has a 52mm telephoto lens....telephoto?

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

There are apps that can control the camera on your phone and even generate raw files. (I don't know how raw they are or even if you can import them into Lightroom). I believe you can set the ISO manually with one of the apps (I have Halide on my iPhone but haven't played around with it much).

52 mm can be a telephoto lens if the sensor is small enough. "Telephoto" has more to do with the field of view than the focal length. On a view camera a "normal" lens might be 200mm or more depending on the film size.

CliffMcKenzie Loc: Lake Athens Texas

Bill De,

You just about can get the camera without the phone. My 12 Pro Max iPhone with its superior processor over my 6+ is 5G capability. I declined the 5G additional per month charge from Verizon as it will be 3 years before it comes to Lake Athens (TX). Additionally, the next Apple software release will allow you to shoot in raw. While the 12 is not my D850...it does an excellent job.

baron_silverton Loc: Los Angeles, CA

Thanks for the interesting link - yes viewing distance is the most important factor. That said I am speaking about the same size blow ups at the same viewing distance - if the viewing distance is approximately the distance to viewing something on the wall in a normal sized room.

In this circumstance, as you blow up the shot you can see differences in the quality as you blow it up with respect top the size of the original file (i.e. MP). 12MP starts to show evidence of break up as you get to about the 16X20 (some argue 11X14 - and even as low as 8X10 - but in these cases you need to be looking side by side with the higher MP shot to see the difference) inch blow up size - that is as compared to a 24MP file at the same size blow up and this trend continues up the line.

I have seen this with my own eyes and it is verified by many others - there are even videos on youtube showing this.

But, it is ultimately a matter of personal taste. If you are totally happy with your smart phone camera and like the blow ups that you make from its files, then by all means keep using it and don't let me or anyone else tell you that you shouldn't - they are your photos.

For the blow ups that I have done and that friends have done - the phone files just don't cut it.

Again, compressed on the Internet or on Instagram, or even on the phone itself (a very small viewing space) they look great - they will display more noise than from larger sensors of similar MP due to physics - this is not debatable - it is physics. The pixel density is much tighter on such small sensors and this creates more heat and as a consequence noise.

Again, photography is a use case kind of thing. If phone cameras work for your use case then you should use them. However, they are still very much inferior to FF cameras for professional applications - this is just a fact.

Have a great day!

BebuLamar

Thank you! It seems to be quite an expensive solution. I will look into that.

BebuLamar

I have a need for it. My wife only wants to take picture with her smartphone but she needs flashes on certain situation. And she doesn't like the "no can do" answer from me.

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

Happy Wife, Happy Life. LOL