![]() PT, or about 45 minutes after sunset.įor getting the best results using Night Mode, though, you do need some light. I shot one of the images you'll see below at Sand Point, also along the Nevada shore, on the iPhone 12 Pro using a 30-second Night Mode exposure and the ultrawide lens. This image is a 30-second exposure shot using my Peak Design tripod in almost total darkness. Photographers call these times the "blue hour," when the sun is below the horizon and the indirect light is a beautiful soft-glowing blue.Įmerald Bay State Park shot on the iPhone 12 Pro with a 30 second Night Mode exposure using the wide lens at 7:13, one hour after the sun had set. I found the sweet spot for taking night photos to be during the 20- to 40-minute period of twilight just after sunset or just before sunrise. Night Mode images on the iPhone 12 Pro are nothing short of amazing. For all of these images, I selected the maximum of 30 seconds.įor really the most stellar results, stabilize your phone by setting it on a surface or, even better, a tripod. Choosing Max will extend the capture time to its longest duration, thus letting in more light to the darker scene. In default mode the camera will decide how long of a capture to make, but you can manually adjust the Night Mode exposure time by tapping the Night Mode icon and using the slider above the shutter button to choose a longer duration. Overall, Night Mode is going to be one of the most aggressively awesome new features on iPhones, because it's now available on every camera in the iPhone 12 line. When it's on, the Night Mode icon at the top of the display turns yellow. The feature will activate automatically when the camera detects a dark scene. Night mode is a low-light assist capture feature that's now available on the selfie, wide and ultrawide iPhone 12 Pro lenses, (on previous iPhones it was only on the standard wide lens). James Martin/CNET Low-light photos with Night Mode The clear emerald waters of Sand Harbor on Lake Tahoe's eastern shore in Nevada, shot on the iPhone 12 Pro with the new f/1.6 wide (26mm) lens. In these images shot with the wide lens, notice how the underwater rocks in the foreground are properly exposed and show virtually no noise, but at the same time we still haven't lost any detail in the bright sky and the distant mountain range. Across my photos taken with the wide lens, there's a shockingly low amount of noise in the shadows, even in the smallest of details. ![]() Then the new seven-element lens, which Apple says allows 27% more light into the sensor, has been shown to dramatically improve the clarity and sharpness around a picture's edges. ![]() That'll mean marginally better low-light performance on the same 12-megapixel sensor as the previous iPhone. The iPhone 12 Pro's standard 26mm lens, dubbed wide, has now been upgraded from an f/1.8 to a wider f/1.6 aperture. Though the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro have the same selfie, wide and ultrawide cameras, the real photographic monster will be the coming ![]()
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