Tap the screen and a slider appears allowing you to control an image’s brightness. Aside from choosing whether you want the HDR on or off Apple has added one other control setting to the iPhone 6’s camera and that’s exposure control. Simplicity really is the name of the game when it comes to the iPhone 6’s camera. There is not a great deal of difference between shots we’ve taken with the iPhone 6 and ones we’ve taken with the iPhone 6 Plus.Ĭolours are less accurate on the Galaxy S5 (inset) when compared to the iPhone 6

It’s not something we’ve missed as much as expected. We’d have liked to see it in the iPhone 6, but it simply would not fit in such a slim body.

Image stabilisation, as the name suggests, helps compensate for the little movements your hands make and allows for blur free pictures. Of course, there’s one omission from the iPhone 6 camera that the iPhone 6 Plus has and that’s optical image stabilisation. Faces don’t have that harsh look that white LEDs provide, but we’d still rather have a bright xenon flash. It works just the same as on the iPhone 5S – it checks the ambient light and then changes the colour of the flash so that it provides more accurate skin tones. You get more detail on the Galaxy S5 (top) compared to the iPhone 6 (bottom)Īt night you can use the True-Tone LED flash to help proceedings. You won’t get quite the amount of detail you will on phones with many more megapixels, but pictures are vibrant and sharp.

The iPhone 6 (left) does a decent job in low light and is better than the iPhone 5S (right) Brightness and colour accuracy are better and there’s less apparent noise. It also manages better in some cases when compared to Samsung’s finest, even though the S5 packs twice the number of pixels. You won’t notice the iPhone 6 taking a picture much faster than the iPhone 5S, but they do look less blurry, particularly in lower-light conditions. Regardless of whether Focus Pixels are an innovation or not, it works. Otherwise known as phase-detection AF, it has been available on DSLRs and compact cameras for years and is also the same tech that the Galaxy S5 uses to help it focus quickly. Apple has added something it calls ‘Focus Pixels’ to the camera to help with speedy focussing. However this is a new iSight camera and the differences become quickly apparent in use. So far so last year, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, the iPhone 5S still has one of the best cameras around. It has an 8-megapixel 1/3-inch sensor with a 1.5µm pixel size. Yet again, at face value the iPhone 6’s camera is just like the iPhone 5S’s one.

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