- My iPhone until 2023-11, when I upgraded to an [[iPhone 15 Pro]]. ## As a Camera Not too surprisingly, it's not as good a camera as my [[Sony A7iii]], for many things. But it does have its advantages for some purposes. All depends on what you're using it for. ### Portrait No. Just no. Yes, technically, you *can*, but with no shallow depth of field, and the 'portrait mode' doesn't count, it's not good. For portraits, nothing really beats a large sensor, and fast glass, probably prime lenses (see [[Lens Types]]). ## Street Photography Generally, yes. Small sensor means lots of [[Depth of Field]], which is usually what you want for street photography. You can set it to take classic high contrast black and white photos, but still change your mind afterwards. [[Live Photos]] are pretty useful, letting you pick the moment afterwards if you slightly missed the timing - which you're more likely to. And the burst mode is impressively fast for the times you want to just spray the shots and see what you get. It can be a little more mixed on the matter of how people see you - it's quite subtle, in that it's small, and everyone has one in their pocket anyway, so you don't stand out as you would with a big camera. But at the same time, some people might assume you're taking photos to share and mock, where they're more likely to think a 'real' camera is someone who is actually a photographer. Tips: - Use the volume controls for the shutter. There's an option in Settings to make the volume down button the shutter and volume up do burst mode. - RAW mode can give you better image quality, but disables Live Photos. Rarely worth it, but good to have available if you want to grab some architecture shots too. - Have an Apple Watch too? Want to be subtle? Use the remote app on the watch to fire the shutter, holding the camera in your watch hand. To anyone around, you're just fiddling with your watch, not even looking at your phone. - Next level: You can use the ****check**** Adaptive Touch settings in Accessibility to enable a gesture for doing the default action. It's a nice way to dismiss notifications by just double-tapping your finger and thumb together. But the default action in the camera remote app is the shutter. So you can see the viewfinder on your watch, and take a photo without touching camera *or* watch. So sneaky. The down side is that it's so sneaky you're risking looking like a creep with a lot to hide if anyone *does* spot what you're doing.