iPhone 14 Pro. Also, the camera unit has become larger.


It's time for the annual camera review of the new iPhones.

This time, of course, the "iPhone 14 Pro". When compared side by side, the camera diameter and LED flash part are slightly different (the iPhone 14 Pro tends to be bigger), and there are some subtle differences in taste, but the model of the same color is handed over to the back. If you just look at it and say, "Which one is it?", you get lost for a moment.

I have an iPhone 13 Pro in my right hand. The iPhone 14 Pro is in his left hand. You can see that the size of the camera unit and the size of the lens are different when you put them side by side

Although it is a substitute, as for the contents, as previously reported, the wide-angle camera (main camera) has changed greatly this time. Until now, the sensor size has increased little by little, and the image quality has improved accordingly, but this time the sensor size has increased to 48 million pixels. The sensor has completely changed to the latest technology.

"There are various changes that come with that, so I'd like to start with Tsukkon."

  • Did the new sensor improve the image quality?

The camera unit of the iPhone 14 Pro. The protrusion has increased by about 0.5 mm compared to the iPhone 13 Pro (measured with a vernier caliper)


The iPhone 14 Pro has three cameras. The configuration of 0.5x ultra-wide angle, wide angle and 3x telephoto is the same as the iPhone 13 Pro.

Even though it has 48 million pixels, it uses "quad pixels", which usually treats 4 pixels as one, so the output photo is 12 million pixels. It's the same as previous iPhones.

"Then, is it the same as what you normally use?" "Therefore, let's compare the two pictures with the usual gas tank."

Gas tank taken with iPhone 14 Pro. If you look closely, the difference is that the iPhone 14 Pro has more detail.


Gas tank taken with iPhone 13 Pro

　It's somehow different, isn't it? Not only are the colors and gradations slightly different, but the areas captured are also different. The iPhone 14 Pro has a slightly wider range (wide angle). If you check the shooting information of both in the photo app, you can see the numbers.

The angle of view of the iPhone 14 Pro is 24mm (equivalent to 24mm in 35mm format), and the angle of view of the iPhone 13 Pro is 26mm. The iPhone 24 Pro has a slightly wider angle. By the way, what was written as "wide-angle camera" until now has been changed to "main camera".

26mm is the traditional angle of view for iPhones with two or more cameras. 24mm is the angle of view often used in Android devices, and for some reason it was changed to 24mm.

Since the main camera is 24mm and the notation on the camera app is "1x", is "0.5x" half that, 12mm? ...I haven't gotten over it. It remains 13mm.

camera app screen

Since the main camera is now 24mm, is the 3x 72mm? ……I haven’t gotten over it. 77mm as before.

Well, the change in the specifications of the main camera has made it inconsistent, but if you round it off to the nearest digit, there is no big difference between about 0.5x and about 3x. .

In this way, a 48-megapixel sensor is made into a quad-pixel with four pixels to create a high-quality image of 12-megapixels, but if you have a 48-megapixel sensor, you can create a 48-megapixel-sized photo. It's human nature to want to take pictures.

The 48-megapixel sensor of the iPhone 14 Pro has a quad-pixel mode that "handles 4 pixels as one" and a high-resolution mode that uses each pixel as an independent 48-megapixel, so it's a high-resolution mode. It's about how much you can shoot.

"RAW" is used for that purpose. If you shoot with "ProRAW" with a 1x lens, you can shoot with RAW data of 48 million pixels. As a result, the file size becomes extremely large (60 to 90MB level), so I do not recommend using it regularly, but I compared it.

48 million pixels on the left, 12 million pixels on the right. With 48 million pixels, details can be captured so far

Here is the JPEG of the original image. After all, it's 6048×8064 pixels, so please only those who really want to see the original image. The rendering power is quite high, and the pine needles are well resolved (I took a picture of the pine tree to check it out), so I would like to use it once.

Taken with 48 million pixels and converted to JPEG. The details are more solid than I expected and it's great

By the way, ProRAW is recorded in Adobe's DNG format, so it can be developed not only with the "Photo" app, but also with other companies' apps that support DNG.