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iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras

iPhone Camera vs real camera

The photos above look similar at a glance, but there are some key differences that seem small but are actually very sensitive to our perception of humans: The fish eye iPhone lens creates distortion, look at the feet of the pink player. An iPhone does lots of computation to try to make everything well-lit, but it ruins important facial features in the process. If you look at the right knee on the iPhone photo, there is a clear lighting defect computed by the millions of lines of code in Apple's image processing software.

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