Apple announces iPhone 11 Pro

Thursday 12 September 2019, 12:24 by Elja Trum | 4,356 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

These days, more photos are taken with smartphones than with traditional cameras. The quality of images from smartphones is also constantly improving. On Tuesday evening, Apple announced its latest camera, sorry, smartphone.

iPhone 11 Pro

Apple actually announced three new iPhones yesterday, but I will focus for now on the iPhone 11 Pro.

The cheaper iPhone 11 has 'only' two lenses, making it slightly less interesting for photographers. The more expensive, and especially larger, iPhone Pro Max has the same camera technology as its smaller sibling.

The three lenses on the iPhone all have a 12-megapixel sensor. The new addition is the ultra-wide lens, which shoots at 13mm. There is also a 26mm and a 52mm lens. Both the 26mm and 52mm lenses have optical image stabilisation.

More important than these small lenses and sensors is probably the Deep Fusion software built into the phone. Using 'computational photography', the input from the three lenses is used to create a composite image that is better than the pure, separate image information.

A good example of computational photography is 'night mode'. This mode allows you to take decent photos even in the dark.

Every time you take a photo, nine photos are actually taken at different shutter speeds. These are then intelligently combined by the artificial intelligence in the hardware, and software.

Incidentally, these kinds of techniques are also used by Google in Android smartphones. I expect there will not be much difference between them in terms of image quality.

The screen

You can also view your photos directly in high quality on the smartphone's OLED screen. This screen is now even brighter than its predecessor and has a contrast ratio of 2,000,000:1. The screen contains 458 pixels per inch and can display HDR images.

The front-facing camera has also been improved. It now also has a 12-megapixel sensor and the ability to record 4K video.

You can find a summary of the announcements surrounding the iPhone 11 (Pro) in the video below from Engadget.

Price and availability

The new iPhones can be ordered from tomorrow, Friday 13 September, at 14:00.

The iPhone 11 Pro costs 1,159 euros. You then get the model with 64 gigabytes of internal storage. You can buy the 256-gigabyte version for 1,329 euros, or the 512-gigabyte version for 1,559 euros. The latter seems like overkill to me anyway.

The iPhone 11 Pro Max starts at 1,259 euros and goes up to no less than 1,659 euros. Would you rather have the iPhone 11, without Pro? This model starts at 809 euros.

iPhone 7 upgrade

I still have an iPhone 7 at the moment. A dinosaur in the smartphone world, and now three years old. This iPhone 11 Pro appeals to me, so I am going to upgrade to this latest model.

Of course, I will let you know how I get on with the newer camera.

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About the author

Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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