Photographer Austin Mann’s iPhone 13 Pro Test Looks at Camera Improvements With Macro, Photographic Styles, New Lenses, and More

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The photographer Austin Mann has today published his in-depth annual review of the latest iPhone‘s camera capabilities, this time focusing on the iPhone 13 Pro. Mann’s tests were performed in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, looking at each of the ‌iPhone 13 Pro‌’s camera upgrades, including Macro mode, increased telephoto zoom and Cinematic mode.

ProRAW image shot with the ‌iPhone 13 Pro‌’s Telephoto camera and edited in Lightroom CC.

Mann said that macro mode, which uses the Ultra Wide lens and allows users to take photos around 2cm away from a subject, is “perhaps the strongest advancement in this year’s camera system” and fulfills a clear need for many photographers. Images in Macro mode are still able to be fairly sharp in low-light and amid camera shake. Macro effectively functions “as a fourth lens” and is “not just an iterative increase.”

ProRAW image shot with the ‌iPhone 13 Pro‌’s Ultra Wide camera in macro and edited in Lightroom CC.

The new 13mm Ultra Wide lens with f/1.8 aperture is said to offer sharper low-light images with faster shutter speeds. While the Ultra Wide still has some lens distortion, according to Mann, the overall sharpness is “drastically improved.”

ProRAW image shot with the ‌iPhone 13 Pro‌’s Ultra Wide camera and edited in Lightroom CC.

The new 77mm Telephoto camera offers a 33 percent increase in size over the same lens on the iPhone 12 Pro, but it is also boosted with a substantially

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