The iPhone 14 Pro is the latest addition to Apple's premium smartphone lineup. It stands out for its elegant design, high performance and above all its innovative camera.
Featuring a 48-megapixel main sensor, 12-megapixel ultra-wide-angle, 12-megapixel telephoto lens and Dynamic Island, it promises to capture exceptional quality images and videos.
But is it really the best smartphone for photography and video enthusiasts?
A 48-megapixel main sensor that makes the difference
The iPhone 14 Pro is Apple's first smartphone to feature a 48-megapixel . This sensor, larger than that of the iPhone 14 (12 megapixels), makes it possible to capture more details and light, especially in low light.
It also benefits from Deep Fusion technology , which combines multiple images to optimize sharpness, contrast and colors.
The result is impressive: photos taken with the iPhone 14 Pro are more detailed, more faithful and more dynamic than those taken with the iPhone 14. They rival those of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra , which also has a sensor of 48 megapixels, but tends to saturate colors and smooth textures.
They surpass those of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra, which despite its 108 megapixel sensor, produces noisy and blurry images.
A versatile ultra-wide-angle and telephoto lens
The iPhone 14 Pro also has a 12-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens , which can capture landscapes or group scenes with a viewing angle of 120 degrees .
This sensor offers good image quality, with little distortion and good exposure management. It is comparable to that of the iPhone 14, which has the same sensor, but it stands out for its ability to do macro photography .
Thanks to the Dynamic Island, the iPhone 14 Pro can get as close as 2 cm to the subject and capture tiny details , such as the veins of a leaf or the hairs of an insect. This is a unique feature, which neither the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra nor the Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra offer.
The iPhone 14 Pro also has a 12-megapixel telephoto lens, which allows you to zoom up to 3x without loss of quality . This sensor offers good sharpness and color rendition, but it suffers in low light, where it loses sharpness and contrast.
It's higher than the iPhone 14, which doesn't have a telephoto lens, but it's lower than the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, which offers up to 10x optical zoom and up to 100x digital zoom.
It also lags behind that of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra, which offers up to 5x optical zoom and up to 120x digital zoom.
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A Dynamic Island that revolutionizes the selfie
The iPhone 14 Pro is Apple's first smartphone to feature a Dynamic Island, a hole in the screen that houses the front camera. This 12 megapixel camera allows you to take high quality selfies , with a good level of detail, colors and brightness.
It stands out above all for its ability to do portrait mode, which blurs the background to highlight the subject.
Thanks to the Dynamic Island, portrait mode works even in low light , which was not the case with the iPhone 14, which had a wider notch.
The portrait mode of the iPhone 14 Pro is also more effective than that of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and the Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra, which tend to poorly crop out hair or ears.
A 4K video at 60 fps that sets the standard
The iPhone 14 Pro is also a great smartphone for video. It can film in 4K at 60 frames per second , with optical and digital stabilization, fast and precise autofocus, and stereo sound. Videos are smooth, sharp and well exposed, with natural colors and good contrast.
The iPhone 14 Pro also stands out for its Cinematic Mode function , which allows you to create depth of field effects in real time, changing the point of focus from one subject to another. This is a new feature, which gives a cinematic rendering to videos.
The iPhone 14 Pro thus outperforms the iPhone 14, which does not offer Cinematic Mode, but also the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and the Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra, which have inferior video performance, particularly in terms of stabilization, focusing. point and color rendering.
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Comparative table
If you are interested in knowing whether the iPhone 14 pro is the best smartphone for photos and videos, here is a comparison table with the iPhone 14 and its main competitors:
| Characteristic | iPhone 14 Pro | iPhone 14 | Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra | Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main sensor | 48MP, f/1.78 | 12MP, f/1.5 | 48 MP, f/1.8 | 108MP, f/1.9 |
| Ultra wide angle | 12 MP, f/2.2, macro | 12MP, f/2.4 | 12MP, f/2.2 | 20 MP, f/2.2 |
| Telephoto lens | 12 MP, f/2.8, 3x zoom | None | 12 MP, f/3.0, 10x zoom | 48 MP, f/4.1, 5x zoom |
| Front camera | 12 MP, f/1.9, Dynamic Island, night portrait mode | 12 MP, f/1.9, notch | 40 MP, f/2.2, hole in screen | 20 MP, f/2.2, hole in the screen |
| Video | 4K at 60 fps, Cinematic Mode, ProRAW | 4K at 60 fps | 4K at 60 fps, 8K at 24 fps | 4K at 60 fps, 8K at 30 fps |
Conclusion
The iPhone 14 Pro is undoubtedly Apple's best smartphone for photos and videos. It offers exceptional image quality, thanks to its 48-megapixel main sensor, its versatile ultra-wide-angle, its powerful telephoto lens and its innovative Dynamic Island. It also stands out for its exclusive features, such as macro photography, night portrait mode, Cinematic mode and ProRAW format.
It thus outperforms the iPhone 14, which has a more limited camera.
