IPhone 17 needs amazing cameras. This is what I think I should do

the iPhone 16 Pro Actually packages one of the best camera settings on any phone, however iPhone 17 It needs to take things further when it is launched within a few weeks. Apple phones are certainly able to take amazing pictures, thanks to their wonderful software, the Prorab coordination and their wealth from video skills, but Apple’s competitors do big things as well. the Galaxy S25 Ultrathe Pixel 9 Pro and Xiaomi 14 Ultra All the amazing camera settings gave the iPhone 16 Pro operating to its money and showing that Apple is not the only company that creates the photography square.

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While early reports from those familiar with the industry claim that the phone Video skills will get a batchThere is more that iPhone 17 will need to make it a comprehensive photography force. As an experienced phone and professional photographer, I have exceptionally high expectations for high -end phone cameras. After using iPhone 16 Pro since its launch, I have some ideas about what needs to be changed.

Here are the main points that I want to see on iPhone 17 when they are most likely launched in September 2025.

A professional camera status is accessible

In WWDC, Apple has offered changes on the upcoming iOS 26, which included a fundamental change in the interface with liquid glass. But this simplified style also extended to the camera application, while reducing the Apple interface to the most important functions of photo, video and magnification levels. The idea is supposed to make it very easy even for beginners to open the camera and start taking the footage that deserves Instagram.

This is good, but what about those who buy professional models in order to get a deeper feature of features such as exposure compensation, photography patterns and Proraf format? It is not quite clear how these features can be accessed within the new camera interface, but they should not be placed away. Many photographers – I want myself greatly – use these tools as a standard, using our strong iPhone devices in the same way as a camera without a mirror of Canon or Sony.

This means relying on advanced settings to control the process of taking pictures to formulate shots that exceed simple shots. If there is anything, the Apple camera application was very simple, with no basic functions such as white balance. Seeing Apple takes matters to a more worrying level, and I want to see how the company will continue to make these phones useable for enthusiastic photographers.

A greater picture sensor

Although the 1/1.28-inch sensor is on the main camera of the iPhone 16 Pro is already a good size-and is marginally bigger than the S24 Ultra 1/1.33 inches sensor-I want to see Apple larger. The largest photo sensor can capture more light and provide a better dynamic range. For this reason, professional cameras tend to get at least a “full frame” photo sensors, while high -end cameras are really amazing Hasselblad 907XYou have huge “medium format” sensors for virgin image quality.

Xiaomi understands, and its equipment 15 ultra And the previous 14 Ultra with 1 inch type sensors. It is larger than the sensors on almost any other phone, allowing for 15 ULTRA to take amazing photos throughout EuropeWhile the 14 professional was heroic to take pictures in Taylor Swift parties. I am keen to see Apple at least match the Xiaomi phone here with a 1 -inch type sensor. Although if we are talking about pie desires in the sky, IPhone 17 may be the first smartphone with a full -frame image sensor. I will not hold my breath on this person – the phone, and lenses, you will need to be enormous to absorb it, so it is likely to be more efficient only to allow you to make calls with the camera without a mirror.

Do not lean on artificial intelligence a lot

Artificial intelligence has become a larger part of the camera’s experience on many Android phones, than the Honor 400 Pro tool That brought my father back to life To Pixel 9 Pro’s Wild Generation AI. But iPhone always emphasizes the importance of the quality of the true image, as it produces sharp detailed images that remain sincere for the scene that I already saw when pushing the shutter button.

Apple’s Apple has not yet been completely pioneer and I am afraid that the company would like to be seen as a greater push of deeper and more “innovative” uses of the spontaneous organization. Certainly, some of these may be useful in other parts of the phone, but iPhone 17 cameras first and above all still need to be able to really provide great pictures, and not simply use AI to compensate for any deficiencies for devices.

Changing

Another reasons that Xiaomi 14 Ultra Phone is severely rock for photography is to open the variable on the main camera. The broader opening is f/1.6- much wider than the f/1.78 from iPhone 16 Pro. This broader hole allows a lot of light in low conditions and achieves more honest peach out of focus on a topic.

But the 14 Ultra Xiaomi opening can also be closed to F/4, and with that narrower opening, it is able to create Starbursts around light points. I love achieving this effect on night pictures with the phone. It makes the resulting images seem to have been taken using a professional camera and lens, while the same light points on the iPhone look like round points. Disappointment, Xiaomi has already removed this feature from the new 15 Ultra, so whether Apple sees value in implementing this type of technology still should be seen.

More photography patterns

Although Apple had many methods and effects integrated into iPhone cameras, the iPhone 16 took it further, with more control of effects and toning options. It is sufficient that the former previous CNET editor Lisa Eadicicco Even her photography patterns announced “The new preferred feature on the latest Apple phone“

I think they are great too. Or rather, it’s great Start. Various color tones, such as those you get with amber and gold patterns, add some beautiful warmth to the viewer, and the calm effect adds an ancient cinematic fading, but there is still a lot to choose from and the interface is slow at work. I would like to see Apple offers more photography patterns with different toning options for color, or even with tones that mimic old movie stocks from Kodak or Fujifilm.

Certainly, there are a lot of third -party apps like VSCO or Snapseed that allows you to play with color filters everything you want. But using Apple styles means that you can take your photos with the already applied look, then change them after that if you don’t like them-nothing is baked in your image.

I was recently affected by the new Samsung tool for Create dedicated color filters Based on the appearance of other images. I would like to see Apple brings this level of customizing images to iPhone.

The best integration of prora with photography patterns

I think Apple has missed some opportunity with its photographic patterns, as you can only use them when taking pictures in formatting a highly efficient image). Unfortunately, you cannot use it when the Prora. I like to use Apple for Proraw on previous iPhone devices, as it takes advantage of all iPhone’s arithmetic photography – including things like mixing HDR image – but still comes out of the DNG RAW file to facilitate editing.

The DNG file usually also provides more length lines for dark areas or the most prominent tone in a form, making it very versatile. Previously, the prior colored settings of Apple can be used when photographing in Proraw, and loved them. I often shoot pictures similar to the street using black and white mode on the high contrast, then I edited the raw file.

Now using the same black and white appearance means only photographing pictures in Heif format, eliminating the benefits of using Proraw from Apple. It is strange that although the old -style “filters” are no longer available in the camera application when taking a preliminary image, you can still apply these filters to raw images in the iPhone application through the editing list.

Lotus for PRORES video

While we are in the subject of priority and color filters, the Apple needs to bring it to the video as well. On iPhone 15 Pro, Apple provided the ability to Video shooting in PRORESIt results in very low clips, almost gray. The idea is that the video editors will take these raw shots and then apply their adjustments to the top, and often apply contrast and colorful forms known as LUTS (search tables) that give the clips a specific look-think about horror movies or warm and light tones of the culture of romantic drama.

But Apple does not offer any type of LUT to edit the Prories video on iPhone, until simply intensifying contrast, which does not properly do the task. Certainly, the goal of Prories is that you will take these shots from iPhone, and put them in programs like Davinci Resolution, then correctly coloring shots so that they look elegant and professional.

But this still leaves files on your phone, and I would like to be able to do more with them. My exhibition is full of unrestricted video files that I will do so much because it needs to classify external colors. I would like to share them in Instagram, or with my family on WhatsApp, after converting these files from Drab and Gray to a beautiful color.

With iPhone 17, or even with iPhone 16 as a software update, I want to see Apple creates a set of LUTS that can be applied directly to video files on iPhone. Although we did not see these functions of the program that were discussed as part of the keyword in June WWDC in June, this does not mean that it cannot be launched with iPhone in September.

If Apple is able to implement all these changes-with exception, perhaps, the full frame sensor that I can even admit is an ambitious touch-it will have an absolute monster of the camera on its hands.