IPhone XS Camera Review: complicated technology for easier photography

Every time you take a photo with the new iPhone, you activate billions of edits.
Learning the art of photography has always entailed at least some math. Whether it was the relatively simple calculations that were needed to understand the exposure parameters or the almost impenetrable combination of numbers needed to navigate through the parameters in an old-fashioned flash, there were always numbers behind the process. What is a candle?


Modern cameras, however, bring even more math than anything else in the past. In fact, Apple's new iPhone XS Max camera makes "billions" of calculations, but you, the shooter, never see them. In fact, it is only thanks to a new functionality (which has nothing to do with the real mechanics of photography) that the camera of the iPhone even mentions a photographic concept of a fundamental time such as the number f, which tells you how much light your lens passes through can leave the aperture.
I filmed for a few days with the iPhone XS Max camera and while it was certainly one of the best smartphone cameras I have ever used, it took some work to convince my brain to give up its traditional habits and the future of computer photography embrace. We are in a world where taking a photo really means that you have to take several in quick succession and have them collected by a computer in one go. It is a concept that changes what it means to look for "good light".
On the data sheet, the new iPhone camera does not look substantially different from the hardware in the original iPhone X. This is always a dual camera setup with a wide-angle lens and a secondary telephoto lens that gives you more zoom in the field of view.
The image sensors that actually capture light in the image are now slightly larger than in the previous model. Apple does not say exactly how much larger it is, but the resulting change has made the two cameras slightly wider in terms of field of vision. For camera nerds: the wide-angle lens now works as a 26 mm lens, while the telephoto lens is only 52 mm
The image sensors that actually capture light in the image are now slightly larger than when you take different photos every time you take a photo with the iPhone XS Max. First, several previous images are recorded when the button is pressed from a buffer that is constantly running in the background. So even more photos are needed, including the main reference frame and an image with a longer exposure time to try to capture extra details from the shadows. This is an example of computer photography in which the processing engine combines the raw image data in the final photo.

The processor then takes this amount of data and combines it into a single image file. It is very different from the previously mechanical process of opening a small door for a piece of film and leaving light on for 1/60 of a second.
Multi-shot HDR is not new in itself - and it has been the standard way of filming with the iPhone since the iPhone X first debuted - but now the system looks for discrete elements in the frame, just like the faces, which are always important or the blurred lines that may indicate the blur. So he tries to solve them.
The results are clear and vivid images, but if you are used to images from a traditional camera or DSLR, it takes some getting used to. The shadows have more details, but because they are not that dark, sometimes the impact of a nice dark part of the image is missing.
A photo with a clear cloudless blue sky usually means dark, hard shadows and abundant contrast, but the iPhone illuminates these dark areas to the best of its ability. The reward is rich in details, but the cost is that things sometimes look more like a screenshot of World of Warcraft than a typical photo.
Portrait mode:
The updated photo algorithms of the iPhone XS Max have also improved the portrait function, which blurs the background of an image to mimic the appearance of a professional lens with fast aperture.
We first encountered portrait mode on the iPhone 7 Plus and it came a long way. In fact, the iPhone XS Max allows that

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