Truly professional photo and video capabilities — Apple World Today

For the iPhone 12 Pro, the Wide camera uses a new seven-element lens with an f/1.6 aperture — the fastest ever on an iPhone. That lens offers 27 percent improved low-light performance in both photo and video. The Ultra Wide and Telephoto cameras appear to stay the same as last year’s…

The iPhone 12 Pro Max Wide camera not only uses the same seven-element lens found in the Pro, but now has a 47 percent larger sensor with 1.7 micrometer pixels offering an 87 percent improvement in low-light conditions. The Telephoto camera now has a 65 mm focal length, creating a camera system with a 5x optical zoom range.

Night Mode now expands to TrueDepth and Ultra Wide cameras for brighter pictures, and there’s a new Night mode Time-Lapse. Deep Fusion is faster now and comes to all of the cameras on the devices, and Smart HDR 3 brings more true-to-life images.

Video-wise, these are the first cameras and only smartphones in the world that enable Dolby Vision HDR capabilities up to 60 frames per second, with improved video stabilization. Dolby Vision grading is now processed live and sustained during editing in the Photos app or iMove. Later this year, that same grading comes to Final Cut Pro X. Hint to readers: if you don’t have a 4K UHDTV capable of displaying Dolby Vision, it’s time to get one.

But the biggest change includes the addition of a LiDAR Scanner to both Pro models, measuring light distance and allowing the devices to use pixel depth information for any scene. For the first time, this means that Night mode portraits are possible with beautiful low-light bokeh.