Photographer Tests How His $13,000 Camera Compares To The New iPhone 11 Pro, Posts The Results
Some days it feels like technology is already so advanced that it’s increasingly difficult to notice the difference in quality between new inventions, simply because we might be reaching the limits of the human senses.
Photographer Josh Rossi, who also goes by the moniker Photoshop Dad, recently compared the new iPhone 11 Pro to his Fuji GFX 100 medium format camera, which costs around 13,000 dollars. Now, the winner should be obvious, theoretically, but the reality is different than you’d expect. Dear Pandas, scroll down and try to figure out which pictures were taken with the iPhone and which ones were taken with the extremely expensive professional camera. And be sure to scroll down for Bored Panda’s interview with Rossi as well.
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You can watch Josh Rossi’s full comparison video right here
Bored Panda interviewed the photographer Rossi to hear more of his thoughts on the subject. Here’s what he had to say: “he iPhone camera has gone so far since 2007. I’ve always wanted to shoot professional work since the iPhone 4 came out but the technology didn’t allow it. Finally, the iPhone camera is to a place where you can barely tell if it was shot on a DSLR or not.”
“At this point, only the trained eye can tell the difference between a pro-level camera and the iPhone. The consequence is that anyone can now create stunning images,” Rossi said.
“I was inspired to become a photographer to create bigger stories that evoke emotion. I always loved storytelling but didn’t want to go into film because I wanted to have control over the whole creative process and didn’t want to have to spend millions of dollars just to tell a story,” he revealed to Bored Panda. “Photography is a very inexpensive way of creating emotion through storytelling.
The photographer took pictures with the iPhone 11 Pro…
…as well as with the Fuji GFX 100 camera that costs around 13,000 dollars
Can you guess which photos were taken with the iPhone and which ones were taken with one of the best professional cameras on the market today? Scroll down for the answers
According to Rossi, the Fujifilm GFX 100 is “one of the best cameras out there today,” while its sensor size is a third of the entire iPhone 11. Rossi admitted that he was expecting the professional camera to win by a knock-out, however, the iPhone 11 Pro gave a hell of a fight.
“I think that the image quality of the iPhone is good enough to print on a billboard, post on social media and even use on big campaigns,” Rossi concluded, which just goes to show how far Apple has come when it comes to camera hardware and system software development since the release of the first iPhone back in 2007.
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The iPhone 11 Pro can cost anywhere from 599 dollars to over 1,349 dollars, depending on various parameters, such as whether you have an iPhone to trade in, what memory capacity you choose (64 GB, 256 GB, or 512 GB), and who your carrier is. Obviously, if you choose the iPhone 11 Pro Max (isn’t that name kind of redundant?), you’ll end up paying way more.
iPhone 11 Pro + Photoshop = a movie poster
Now, full disclaimer, I’ve personally never owned an iPhone (I prefer communicating via smoke signals), but I do like the design of some of Apple’s products. For example, while everyone else and their grandma listens to music on their phones, I still use an 80 GB iPod Classic from way back: it’s best features are that it does the job it’s meant to do and I haven’t had to replace it yet. Apple-willing, it’ll last until I’m old and fabulously gray.
So, dear Readers, if any of you own an iPhone (11 Pro or any other model), let us know in the comments what you think of the picture quality. And if any of you Pandas out there are professional photographers, drop us a line or two about what you think of Rossi’s comparison.
Here’s how people reacted to the comparison
Ugh. Didn't we have the exact same thing about a week ago? Also, sure thing you can tune your DSLR so the pics mimic those of the iCrap. Try it the other way round.
Yeah. If I was supposed to test something, I'd push the limits. What about different lighting conditions, different colors (dunno but my digital camera from over a decade ago had some difficulty with certain shades of red), the whole range from macro to landscape, zoom (phone cameras only have digital zoom, right, so if you zoom the picture gets smaller?), and so on...? Selfies and pictures of food seem to be among the most popular pictures to make with a phone camera - so year, they should be pretty good by now with portraits and moderate close-ups. Now go for some motives and conditions that make people go and get an expensive camera...
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Hey everyone! This post is not being sponsored and we are not getting paid for it. In fact, there are no sponsored posts at the moment. We should probably contact Apple and collect our money :D
If you conduct this test in perfect lighting conditions and with subjects that have been used to heavily optimize the automatic postprocessing, and if you do not know your equipment well enough to find some of the many situations where you start to see different results, you should ask yourself whether you are really that good of a photographer.
It's great publicity, buy the IPhones and let the camera prices go down please.
Advert, and yes on basic settings you can have any expensive camera dumb down to the specs of a phone, however a proper DSLR is capable of a hell of a lot more than any phone. Set up the camera properly and then do a comparison.
Android phones have been consistently better and higher quality that Iphones. In fact the Samsung Galaxy S10 usually rates much higher and costs less than an Iphone. Why didn't the author even try?
Yeah, iphone photos in 500px for internet, taken on bright daylight! And they're looking good. Surprise!
As an ex photo lab manager, and still currently printing, this is as some say, BS. I get iPhone, and other phone images all the time, and people are so disappointed when I tell them their photo looks like do do when enlarged. Usually, over compressed, chromatic aberrations, over sharpened, etc. 8x10's no problem. But, no discussion on color purity, white balance, focus and other important items, no lines per millimeter test, etc. You cannot tell me that a $1,000 phone is gonna match up to my $4000 lens. True, I wish cameras could use third-party stuff as well as software updates.
Phone camera (any flagship Samsung Apple xiaomi, whatever) are good enough for normal people who want a picture of their drunk friend. Definitely not for professionals. These would look like s**t if actually used at real size and not on 72 ppi for web
Thanks for the f*****g ads! Also, this is an easy example. These have good lighting, let's see how well it does without
Apple´s efforts to make it´s Iphones desirable again are just amazing!
Commercial propaganda. With naked eyes the difference in favour of Fuji camera is irrefutable. Very unhonest of the editors...
The comparison should be between two mobile phones and not one professional camera and one mobile phone
This is such rubbish. Of course you can't see the difference under really easy lighting conditions and with the photos presented in such a small size.
He photoshopped teh iPhone 11 photos....so that's not a comparison, just pure trash.
It's not a fair comparison - you could buy a dozen GFX cameras for the price of a second hand iPhone!
Does it really matter, when people mostly seem to take pictures of themselves rather than the world around them?
Bored Panda forgot the disclaimer: This is an advertorial sponsored by Apple. Some photo's are digitally enhanced to be able to compete with a superior product. This article is biased in favour of products sold by the sponsor.
Ugh. Didn't we have the exact same thing about a week ago? Also, sure thing you can tune your DSLR so the pics mimic those of the iCrap. Try it the other way round.
Yeah. If I was supposed to test something, I'd push the limits. What about different lighting conditions, different colors (dunno but my digital camera from over a decade ago had some difficulty with certain shades of red), the whole range from macro to landscape, zoom (phone cameras only have digital zoom, right, so if you zoom the picture gets smaller?), and so on...? Selfies and pictures of food seem to be among the most popular pictures to make with a phone camera - so year, they should be pretty good by now with portraits and moderate close-ups. Now go for some motives and conditions that make people go and get an expensive camera...
Load More Replies... Hey everyone! This post is not being sponsored and we are not getting paid for it. In fact, there are no sponsored posts at the moment. We should probably contact Apple and collect our money :D
If you conduct this test in perfect lighting conditions and with subjects that have been used to heavily optimize the automatic postprocessing, and if you do not know your equipment well enough to find some of the many situations where you start to see different results, you should ask yourself whether you are really that good of a photographer.
It's great publicity, buy the IPhones and let the camera prices go down please.
Advert, and yes on basic settings you can have any expensive camera dumb down to the specs of a phone, however a proper DSLR is capable of a hell of a lot more than any phone. Set up the camera properly and then do a comparison.
Android phones have been consistently better and higher quality that Iphones. In fact the Samsung Galaxy S10 usually rates much higher and costs less than an Iphone. Why didn't the author even try?
Yeah, iphone photos in 500px for internet, taken on bright daylight! And they're looking good. Surprise!
As an ex photo lab manager, and still currently printing, this is as some say, BS. I get iPhone, and other phone images all the time, and people are so disappointed when I tell them their photo looks like do do when enlarged. Usually, over compressed, chromatic aberrations, over sharpened, etc. 8x10's no problem. But, no discussion on color purity, white balance, focus and other important items, no lines per millimeter test, etc. You cannot tell me that a $1,000 phone is gonna match up to my $4000 lens. True, I wish cameras could use third-party stuff as well as software updates.
Phone camera (any flagship Samsung Apple xiaomi, whatever) are good enough for normal people who want a picture of their drunk friend. Definitely not for professionals. These would look like s**t if actually used at real size and not on 72 ppi for web
Thanks for the f*****g ads! Also, this is an easy example. These have good lighting, let's see how well it does without
Apple´s efforts to make it´s Iphones desirable again are just amazing!
Commercial propaganda. With naked eyes the difference in favour of Fuji camera is irrefutable. Very unhonest of the editors...
The comparison should be between two mobile phones and not one professional camera and one mobile phone
This is such rubbish. Of course you can't see the difference under really easy lighting conditions and with the photos presented in such a small size.
He photoshopped teh iPhone 11 photos....so that's not a comparison, just pure trash.
It's not a fair comparison - you could buy a dozen GFX cameras for the price of a second hand iPhone!
Does it really matter, when people mostly seem to take pictures of themselves rather than the world around them?
Bored Panda forgot the disclaimer: This is an advertorial sponsored by Apple. Some photo's are digitally enhanced to be able to compete with a superior product. This article is biased in favour of products sold by the sponsor.
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