The iPhone 16 and 16 Plus are playing catch-up to the Pro line this year, with two new buttons, all-new chipsets, and some useful new camera features.
Over the past few years, Apple’s standard iPhone looked a little neglected. The Pro models got new chipsets, camera features, and a customizable Action Button, while the standard models made do with the leftovers. But this year, things are different: the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus played catch-up, and the gap between these phones and the Pro models isn’t as wide as it once was. That matters a lot, especially on the more basic models.
to use the new styles. is a cursed file format that no other company loves as much as Apple. Most of the time, your images will be converted to JPEG when sending them outside of the Apple ecosystem, but inevitably, one day you’ll have the misfortune of trying to open a .heic file on a non-Apple device and be met with nothing but sadness. I usually avoid shooting in
, but the new photographic styles are so good that I’m willing to put up with the stray compatibility issue. This level of flexibility makes it kind of hard to evaluate the camera itself. I’ve been shooting with a contrastier photographic style, which dials up shadows in a way I like. Along with the brighter highlights preserved by HDR tone mapping, you get an image with actual highlights and shadows — not a bunch of gray mush scrunched into a standard dynamic range space.
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