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telephoto camera is for taking stunning portraits and square pictures. It consists of a 6-element lens.
Figure 6: Identifying the 12MP Telephoto Lens
The neat and clean design of the iPhone 12 Pro Max makes it look elegant. The cameras are placed in the same position as the iPhone 11 Pro Max, but when compared with the iPhone 11 Pro Max; iPhone 12 Pro Max has a bigger image sensor, a faster main camera lens, and better image stabilization. Autofocus also has an improvement with the LIDAR sensor.
Versatility of the Camera System
The camera hardware is powered by the super A14 Bionic with a new image signal processor, which helps in improving image quality and other popular photography features that are not possible with general cameras. It also includes the Apple Pro Raw, which allows users to exercise better control over colors, details, and dynamic range on the iPhone or other photo editing apps.
Figure 7: iPhone 12 Rear Cameras
The iPhone 12 Pro Max also offers the best quality video shooting through its end-to-end HDR video with Dolby vision up to 60 FPS and comes with better stabilization. Well, more about this will be discussed when we dive more into the video capabilities of the iPhone in the videos section.
Augmented Reality (AR) for Innovative Camera Usage
The new LIDAR scanner measures light distance and makes use of pixel depth information of a view. This helps in faster and more realistic, as well as reliable AR experiences, and also improves autofocus by 7x in low lights for more accuracy and reducing the capture time of the photos. This amazing LIDAR scanner unlocks various night mode portraits, which help in rendering a low light Bokeh effect. This feature has also resulted in programmers creating various apps that take advantage of this innovative feature to create apps that can measure distances between two points.
iPhone 12 Pro Max Tech Specs
Apple has brought a lot of new exciting features and hardware changes in its most recent lineup. If you are someone who is switching from Android to iPhone 12 Pro Max or an existing iPhone user and finding it hard to get used to these newly introduced changes in tech specs and design of iPhone 12 Pro Max, let me walk you through all the new changes - technical aspects and specifications.
The iPhone 12 Pro Max’s Technical Specs
The iPhone 12 Pro Max is the biggest, heaviest, and most expensive iPhone to be released by Apple so far. It comes with a 6.7-inch touchscreen shipped with the iOS 14 and powered by a hex-core Apple A14 Bionic CPU. As at the time of writing this book, this processor is acclaimed to be Apple’s fastest chip in the market which allows it to give the iPhone 12 its superior performance and support for the graphical demands of the iPhone 12 Pro Max.
The iPhone 12 Pro Max features dual GSM SIMs for Nano-SIM and eSIM cards.
The iPhone 12 Pro Max is a pioneer in its supports for the 5G technology, which is the fastest technology compared to the iPhone 11 Pro’s support for the 4G LTE network. This is one of the main features with which no other phone can be compared with the iPhone 12 series.
The Intel modem chip that comes with iPhone 12 Pro Max supports Gigabit-class LTE, 802.12 a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi 6 support, Band 40 support, Bluetooth 5.0, and UI ultra-wideband chip for better spatial awareness with better indoor tracking capabilities. It also has sensors that it uses for its gyroscope, ambient light sensor, accelerometer, compass/ magnetometer, barometer, and proximity sensor. Not to be left out is its support for face unlocks with 3D face recognition.
Figure 8: Various Colors for Shipping iPhone 12
The iPhone 12 Pro Max has support for Qi wireless charging, including proprietary MagSafe fast charging.
The battery life of the iPhone 12 Pro Max is terrific and is powered by a non-removable 2815mAh battery.
The iPhone 12’s Pro Design and Display
The iPhone 12 Pro Max shares similar physical attributes as its predecessor iPhone 5s but has a noticeable camera bump on its back that houses the triple camera array, which is not present on the iPhone 5s but was introduced in the iPhone 11 series.
Figure 9: iPhone Screen Display with Resolution
Such camera bumps are not entirely new in the mobile phone industry, as a matter of fact, was introduced in the earlier version of iPhone 11 in response to the demands of many iPhone enthusiasts who wanted Apple to improve the quality of the iPhone’s camera, especially when compared to other Android phones. However, unlike the camera bump of Samsung Galaxy S10, Huawei P30 Pro, and other Chinese manufacturing competitors, that of the iPhone 12 Pro Max is considerably chunkier.
The phone comes with a resolution of 2788 x 1284 pixels and a pixel density of 458 pixels per inch (PPI) with a contrast ratio of 2M:1 for its LCD. Similar to the iPhone 11 series, Apple continued the “Super Retina XDR” on its iPhone 12 Pro Max OLED Multi-Touch display. The display equally has support for Apple’s newest advancement in technology that allows for tapping to wake up or activate the screen, Haptic Touch, swipe gesture in place of the Touch ID Home button, a wide color range that enables it to provide a realistic color and a True Tone, useful in matching the ambient light to the display’s white balance.
iPhone 12 Pro Max Camera
If there is one feature that was consistently highlighted as a significant advantage over previous editions of the iPhone, it has to be the iPhone 12 Pro Max’s camera or cameras. The iPhone 12 Pro Max comes with three rear cameras that include the standard wide-angle camera, an ultra-wide-angle camera with a 120-degree field of view, and a telephoto camera lens. Switching between these cameras is, however, remarkably easy and can be executed by flips of on-screen buttons.
The ultra-wide-angle camera can capture up to six times more scenes compared to what the standard wide-angle lens can capture from the same distance from the subject, which makes it a good way of capturing architecture images, landscape photos, tight shots, group pictures, and many other creative pictures.
Figure 10: Triple iPhone Camera Array
The iPhone 12 Pro Max’s camera interface has also undergone some changes that allow users to have that great user experience when trying to capture scenes outside the frame through the use of the ultra-wide-angle camera. The iPhone 12 Pro Max has a 7x optical zoom in and zooms out the range, and its range of the digital zoom is about 12x. It also contains a LiDAR scanner to provide a better night mode experience.
The portrait mode helps you capture photos with a clear focus on the subject and blurred background with bokeh and depth-control.
The addition by Apple of a new Night Mode that takes advantage of the iPhone's high processing capabilities combined with the new wide camera sensor to create crisp, bright, clear photos even in conditions that have very low lighting.
The iPhone 12 Pro Max also comes with