ASCII.jp The iPhone 12 Pro is no longer a mobile phone, but a digital camera [Gian Suzuki]

IPhone 12 Pro spends 11 minutes out of 20 minutes explaining the camera

The new iPhone was announced on October 14th (Japan time). I also watched the presentation video from 2:00 am Japan time in real time, stimulated my desire to buy it, and decided to purchase the "iPhone 12 Pro Max", but I thought after watching the presentation video. That is, "It's not a mobile phone, it's a digital camera, isn't it?"

I think that the staff of the ASCII.jp editorial department wrote about the detailed specifications, so I will omit it in this article, but in fact, about 20 minutes of the iPhone 12 Pro part of the presentation video, about 11 divisions are made to introduce the camera. That's right. From the numbers, you can see how Apple is focusing on appealing camera functions.

Invincibility of trinocular camera and LiDAR scanner

Well, I think the iPhone 12 Pro is a bargain even if you use it only as a digital camera. In particular, the iPhone 12 Pro Max has expanded the pixel size to 1.7 μm by intentionally maintaining 12 million pixels while making the image sensor 47% larger than before. In addition, we will later adopt "Apple Pro RAW", which enables a variety of professional-level development processing with the iPhone alone. In addition, the "LiDAR Scanner" can be expected to improve portrait mode accuracy, focus accuracy in dark places, and speed.

With the A14 Bionic, you can quickly perform a huge amount of image processing, and upload your photos to the Internet at ultra-high speed "in the future" over a 5G line. There is no such digital camera other than the iPhone 12 Pro, right?

When I started a freelance writer five years ago, I was ordered by a certain editorial department to ask, "Would you like to use an interchangeable lens camera?" However, at the end of this year, you may be asked to "use the iPhone 12 Pro after all".

Gian Suzuki