I upgraded from an iPhone X to a 13 pro when it was released and since then it’s been a very mixed experience. The range of quality is incredibly frustrating.

I upgraded from an iPhone X to a 13 pro when it was released and since then it’s been a very mixed experience. The range of quality is incredibly frustrating. I enjoy the speed with which I can take pictures that are not blurry. But in most cases I wish I could reduce the “AI aggressiveness” since they all look so artificially sharp. But that’s only part of it. I have pictures of my family this Christmas where we posed in the same location, same light and with just a few seconds apart and the pictures look completely different when it comes to the colors. “Different AI interpretation” I tell those around me that haven’t come in contact with computational photography yet. Then I apologize, saying that I can’t know how the picture will turn out before it’s taken. And that there is no way to reanalyze. No way to feed RAW back to “the AI”. But such is the future… There’s a picture of me and my partner against a perfectly blue sky. I am a few cm behind her. She looks normal while my face looks half transparent / whitened like a ghost in the sky. There’s pictures of text and logos on billboard and such that are so smooth as if they are photoshopped on top. I often tell those people that not only do we need to accept that photos now are not the same concept as photos in the past, we also have to accept that the next iOS update could change the algorithm and photos from this Christmas will be different to photos from next Christmas even when shot with the same camera. Frustrating