After the amazing quality displayed by iPhone 4S’ camera many people expected even more from the new and excessively rumored 5th instalment. Some others – myself included – didn’t actually demand so much more, given that the camera was already excellent. But certainly everybody wanted at least the same quality images!
Somewhere along the process to make the phone thinner (or, as some say, cheaper to produce) the mighty Apple twisted something that they should not temper with. The result? It might be a handfull of unhappy customers and loads of bad publicity.
As you can see on the pictures and video below there is an intense purple flare on the images captured, in specific lighting situations. It does not really look like purple fringing nor does it seem to me to be the same issue that happened to Leica M8 in the past.
This samples posted by a user called Kaido show the problem compared to photos from other gear. I’ve read the same user very much properly write about the new “antennagate”, referring to the issues that tormented iPhone users some time ago. And this time it seems quite hard to find a firmware that could solve whatever the purple issue is!
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| Credit: photo posted by username “Kaido” at forums.anandtech.com |
A user called “Telly” posted a video that shows the purple madness in action:
