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    Apple iPhone XR Camera Review

    2018-11-01 / Comments Off on Apple iPhone XR Camera Review

    We’re delighted to publish, Austin Mann’s camera review of the new iPhone XR. Mann traveled with his beautiful wife, Ester through Grand Canyon NP, Petrified Forest NP and White Sands National Monument in a cool Airstream for this test. “With the beautiful new LCD display, Smart HDR, and Single Lens Portrait Mode, there’s been a lot to test. My main questions about iPhone XR: How are the portraits? How’s the screen? How’s the battery?”, he said. Questions that we want answers to too! Read on to find out…. To read this alternatively on Mann’s website, please go here.

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    Mobile Photography & Art – Tip of the Day – Set Up An Alternative Face ID in iOS 12

    2018-09-21 / Comments Off on Mobile Photography & Art – Tip of the Day – Set Up An Alternative Face ID in iOS 12

    We are re-igniting our Tip of the Day section and we have a great one here that you may not be aware of yet. With iOS 12 it’s now possible to set up an ‘alternative appearance’ for unlocking your iPhone X, Xs, Xs Max or XR. Previously, only one facial id could do this. This maybe a useful feature if you need to unlock your child’s device, or perhaps if you share a device. Whatever the reason, here’s how you do it: By the way, if you’d like to read our previous tips, please go here.

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  • Hardware,  News,  Reviews

    Apple iPhone Xs Camera Review

    2018-09-19 / Comments Off on Apple iPhone Xs Camera Review

    We’re delighted to republish our good friend, Austin Mann’s camera review of the Apple iPhone Xs today. He took a trip to Zanzibar, the images are gorgeous. In this review, Mann gives his first impressions, his thoughts on the new Image Signal Processor (ISP), vertical panoramas in the iPhone Xs as compared to the iPhone X, perks and perils of computational photography, the updated Portrait Mode and interesting discoveries with the app, Halide’s new technical readout information. Don’t miss this! (foreword by Joanne Carter). If you prefer to read the original article on Mann’s own website, just go here. Far and away the most significant camera update in the iPhone…

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    ‘How I Did It’™ with Rad Drew ‘Using iPhone’s Portrait Mode’

    2018-09-10 / Comments Off on ‘How I Did It’™ with Rad Drew ‘Using iPhone’s Portrait Mode’

    I’m excited to share another How I Did It!™ video tutorial created for TheAppWhisperer! The feedback from our wonderful mobile phone community has been great! If you have a particular topic you’d like me to cover in a future video, please share your suggestions! And thank you Joanne Carter for creating this space for sharing and learning, and for inviting me to be a part of it. Today’s video tutorial features the Portrait Mode in the iPhone’s native camera app. The Portrait Mode works in combination with the dual lenses on the iPhone 7 Plus, 8 Plus, and iPhone X, to allow us to create a narrow depth of field…

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  • Hardware,  News

    PolarPro Mobile Filter System

    2018-05-24 / Comments Off on PolarPro Mobile Filter System

    Like many of you, I came to photography back in 35 mm film days. Nights (with others), in a darkroom gave me immense pleasure. The simplicities of mobile photography are extraordinary and you won’t find a bigger advocate of it because of this. That’s not to say that I don’t excited about accessories though now and again and right now, I will say in my typically British understated way, that from what I’ve seen so far, the Iris – Mobile Filter System by PolarPro and expansion pack, looks quite ingenious. Compatible with iPhone X, iPhone 7/ Plus, iPhone 6/7/8 and Pixel 2/2XL mobile devices, the Iris Mobile Filter System includes…

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    Apple iPhone X – Portrait Lighting

    2018-02-27 / Comments Off on Apple iPhone X – Portrait Lighting

    Apple have released an excellent video demonstrating the process they went through to create Portrait Lighting. It combines timeless lighting principles with advanced machine learning, take a look…

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  • COLUMNS,  Mobile Movies,  News

    Mobile Videography – Cinematic ITALY – Shot on iPhone X in Brescia

    2018-01-08 / Comments Off on Mobile Videography – Cinematic ITALY – Shot on iPhone X in Brescia

    Matteo Bertoli is a videographer whom we have often featured and admired, not least with his latest film, filmed during the 2017 Christmas holidays when he went back home to Brescia in Italy. “I decided to go out and shoot some clips with my iPhone X. Everything was handheld. No slider, no tripod, no lenses. Just my iPhone X and my hands. I used Filmic Pro to record every single clip. The app on the new iPhone X is absolutely perfect. No lags and no problems at all. 100% compatible with iOS 11. I recorded everything in 24p Filmic Extreme quality in 4k. Everything was edited and graded in DaVinci…

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  • Hardware,  News,  Reviews

    Mobile Photography – iPhone X – Reviewed – DxOMark

    2017-11-06 / Comments Off on Mobile Photography – iPhone X – Reviewed – DxOMark

    Just published by DxOMark, the iPhone X review makes interesting reading. “It’s exceptional for stills, achieving the best Photo sub-score yet at 101 points. The overall score is affected by a slightly lower result for video, but at 97 points, the iPhone X ties with the Huawei Mate 10 for the second-highest score in our database of overall mobile image quality. For portraits, the improved telephoto lens delivers sharp results even indoors, and the bokeh simulation produces a natural and pleasing background blur. Outdoors, exposures are outstanding, with great dynamic range, impressive skies, good fine detail, and punchy color rendering. Add to all that the extra features on the front-facing…

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    Mobile Photography – Apple iPhone X – FIRST LOOK and Field Test with Chase Jarvis

    2017-11-01 / Comments Off on Mobile Photography – Apple iPhone X – FIRST LOOK and Field Test with Chase Jarvis

    We know that many of you have already pre-ordered the new Apple iPhone X and are eagerely awaiting it. Well, Chase Jarvis from CreativeLive, managed to get hold of one a little sooner and put it through its paces around New York City. Take a look at the video below and to view the stills from his shoot and more details, head over to CreativeLive here.

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    Mobile Photography – iPhone X Battery Size Larger

    2017-09-27 / Comments Off on Mobile Photography – iPhone X Battery Size Larger

    Interestingly enough, news just in, confirms that the battery size of the awaited iPhone X is larger than the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. The iPhone X will contain a 2,715mAh battery, the iPhone 8 sports a 1,821mAH and the iPhone 8 Plus a 2,675mAh cell. Random Access Memory (RAM) capacity, which is essentially memory, not to be confused with storage space, is also larger on the iPhone X, it weighs in with 3GB in total, that’s more than the iPhone 8 but is equivalent to the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone 7 Plus. All these issues are crucial to mobile photographers, good news.

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