Apple Announces iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S

Two new iPhones, the iPhone 5s and 5c, will be available in a few weeks and like every keynote, there has been a wide variety of reactions. Some people are not happy with the new products, others applaud Apple's work.

Marty Yawnick just published an excellent article on the new models on Life In LoFi. His analysis is interesting, especially about the camera. Here's an excerpt from the article that I found particularly interesting. Read the rest of the article here.

"I have to admit that I was disappointed when I found out that the iPhone still had an eight megapixel camera. In looking at the specs of the new camera, I realize that Apple chose quality over megapixels and I think they made the right choice.

The new camera will have a greater dynamic range, reproduce light and dark better, and reproduce colors more naturally and accurately than the current camera in the iPhone 5 (and 5C). Larger pixels on the sensor has been something that photographers have been requesting since the 8 MP camera of the 4S. Better photos instead of larger photos. It looks like Apple has delivered.

Despite the marketing hype over 12 MP cameras or even 41 megapixel cameras, 8 MP is plenty for an image. You can still blow up an 8 MP image to poster size. With 12 MP, you can shoot a billboard. With less than one megapixel, you can upload your photograph to Instagram and that’s where most of the action is for mobile photography.

If I had to choose between an 8 MP camera that created beautiful, lush, bright, outstanding photographs or 12 MP camera that took flat, dull, okay pictures, I’d go with the camera that gives me the best photograph in-camera to start with. I think Apple made the right choice. It’s a choice that Steve Jobs would’ve made and in fact it was the choice that he made years ago with the iPhone 4 camera."
Marty Yawnick

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