{"id":6392,"date":"2015-06-07T11:39:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T17:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6392"},"modified":"2015-06-07T16:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T22:03:41","slug":"iphone-6-very-low-light-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6392","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 6 (very) Low Light Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone has inexorably displaced many traditional cameras. However, there are a number of use cases where the iPhone requires, perhaps too many compromises or is not yet up to the job.  Sports, particularly fast movement [1] is one example, while low light is often another.  <\/p>\n<p>A recent random left turn brought me to Michael Pendry&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6375\">Les Colombes<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Pendry&#8217;s immersive Pentecost [2] performance offered a great venue to compare the iPhone 6&#8217;s low light capabilities with a tradional, full frame sensor [3] digital camera.<\/p>\n<p>iPhone 6 images:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2015\/5\/les_colombes_iphone1.jpg\" TITLE=\"Les Colombes Munich, Germany by Jim Zellmer\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2015\/5\/les_colombes_iphone2.jpg\" TITLE=\"Les Colombes Munich, Germany by Jim Zellmer\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2015\/5\/les_colombes_iphone3.jpg\" TITLE=\"Les Colombes Munich, Germany by Jim Zellmer\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2015\/5\/les_colombes_iphone4.jpg\" TITLE=\"Les Colombes Munich, Germany by Jim Zellmer\"><\/p>\n<p>Full frame traditional camera images:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2015\/5\/muc1.jpg\" TITLE=\"Les Colombes Munich, Germany by Jim Zellmer\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2015\/5\/muc2.jpg\" TITLE=\"Les Colombes Munich, Germany by Jim Zellmer\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2015\/5\/muc3.jpg\" TITLE=\"Les Colombes Munich, Germany by Jim Zellmer\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2015\/5\/muc4.jpg\" TITLE=\"Les Colombes Munich, Germany by Jim Zellmer\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2015\/5\/muc5.jpg\" TITLE=\"Les Colombes Munich, Germany by Jim Zellmer\"><\/p>\n<p>I recorded a short video with this camera as well. Watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6375\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was pleasantly surprised at the iPhone&#8217;s capabilities.  While not great compared to the traditional camera, the iPhone performed much better than I expected.  Perhaps the next generation or two will require further low light investigation.<\/p>\n<p>View a log of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/i6s\/\">iPhone&#8217;s (growing) photo capabilities, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5418\">iPhone 5s &#038; Sports Photography?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pentecost\">Pentacost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Full-frame_digital_SLR\">Full Frame Sensor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone has inexorably displaced many traditional cameras. However, there are a number of use cases where the iPhone requires, perhaps too many compromises or is not yet up to the job. Sports, particularly fast movement [1] is one example, while low light is often another. A recent random left turn brought me to Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6394,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions\/6394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}