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The cameras
We seem to have spent the month qualifying our first impressions. The OLED displays are great, but only when you're watching video. The performance improvement is true, but not noticeable in regular use.
Where we were blown away โand, crucially, continue to be โwas with the cameras. These new shooters were better than we expected, and we have not become inured to them with use.
An example of an ultra-wide shot on the iPhone 11 Pro
First, that ultra-wide lens. Intellectually, we understood what it could do as soon as Apple announced it, but that's just not the same thing as having it in your hands and using it every day.
The ultra-wide lens is incredibly useful, far more than we had expected. That is greatly to do with how well the lens works, but Apple also nailed it with how they implemented using the feature in iOS 13's Camera app. That app gives you the ability to see what was going on outside the frame when shooting with the standard wide lens.
Consequently, we'd be going to take a picture, see the Camera app's display of what's outside the frame, and realise that the wider view was what we needed for this particular epic shot like the one above.
You won't use ultra-wide for every photo you take. These shots of ours are well stylized and simply aren't right for every situation, but enough to be regularly used by us since getting the new phones.
An example of a night mode shot from the iPhone 11 Pro
Night mode was also handy, and again there is a huge difference between being told what it does and getting to see it in action yourself.
We'd take pictures in low-light situations expecting a certain outcome based on our previous iPhone usage. But we'd notice the iPhone 11 taking a few moments to capture and we'd see the night mode icon. When checking the image, it would be sharp, bright, and a departure from our old iPhone XS Max.
The shots are genuinely good and quite impressive. The above shot was taken with just a small amount of hallway light and yet the dogs โeven the black one โcame out with a lot of detail. More images have been hitting our camera roll since the addition of night mode.
We just have to train ourselves to try to get shots that we used to assume wouldn't be possible.