Apple Unveils the iPhone X and 8/8+ to Up Your Photo Game

Our friends at Apple, down at the other end of the San Francisco Bay had a big event this morning! A group of us here at CreativeLive sat in one of our studios and watched it all go down on our big screen. Coffee in hand, laptops on laps, we were ready for some hot new products from Apple. Most of us sitting in our studio had already seen leaks of new Apple products from various different sources. But regardless of that, we bought into the Apple hype, drank the Kool-Aid, and were glued to the screen.

The event kicked off with a beautiful video highlighting the amazing new circular Apple Park and Steve Jobs Theater.

Tim Cook dove into info about the new campus and all of the state of the art tech and design that went into the creation of the amazing place. We learned all about the new Apple Watch Series 3 and Apple TV 4k. But what we’re here to share is the new Apple iPhone 8 and Apple iPhone X (10). The clear superstar of the show is the uber high-end iPhone X. The new phone has a bezel-less design, Super OLED screen, and new 3D face-scanning tech.


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So all of these new phones have cool new gadgetry but what does that mean for us peeps who really care about the photo and video capabilities? Let’s dive in a bit further on the cameras.

On the iPhone X we have:

  • 12MP f/1.8 aperture wide lens
  • Dual optical image stabilization – with better low light zoom and improved video stabilization
  • Quad-LED True Tone flash which provides 2x better uniformity of light.
  • Deeper pixels
  • New color filter
  • Larger faster sensor
  • 12MP f/2.4 Aperture telephoto lens

Check out an inside x-ray look of the Apple iPhone X camera-

The Apple iPhone X camera with glass

A great new feature the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X has is the advanced portrait mode. The new portrait mode empowers users to change the lighting and background.

  • Studio light
  • Natural light
  • Stage light
  • Stage light mono
  • Contour Light

For the new iPhone 8 and iPhone X the video capabilities improve:

  • Apple designed video encoder
  • Faster Frame rates
  • Real-time image and motion analysis
  • 1080p 240 fps

There’s also the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus with new changes.

  • Glass and aluminum design
  • Retina HD with True Tone
  • A11 Bionic chip
  • 12MP Camera
  • 12MP dual cameras (iPhone 8 Plus)
  • Portrait Mode (iPhone 8 Plus)
  • Portrait Lighting  (iPhone 8 Plus)
  • Quad-LED True Tone flash
  • Slow Sync flash
  • Touch ID
  • LTE Advanced
  • Bluetooth 5.0
  • Stereo speakers
  • Water and dust resistant
  • Wireless charging
  • Fast charging capable

Here are the key points to the new iPhone X

  • 5.8″ Super Retina display
  • Face ID
  • 12MP dual cameras with dual OIS
  • TrueDepth camera
  • A11 Bionic
  • Quad-LED True Tone flash
  • Slow Sync flash
  • Portrait mode (front and back)
  • Portrait lighting
  • Animoji
  • LTE Advanced
  • Bluetooth 5.0
  • Stereo Speakers
  • Water and dust resistant
  • Wireless charging
  • Fast-chare capable

Have a closer look at the front of the iPhone X  the iPhone X has a new OLED display has a cut-out ‘notch’

  • Ambient light sensor
  • Proximity sensor
  • flood illuminator
  • Infrared camera
  • Speaker
  • Microphone
  • Front Camera
  • Dot projector

 

All in all, we’re pretty stoked on the new iPhone 8 and iPhone X. We could geek out forever on all the other features, but we’ll keep you focused on photo and video.

In the words of The Great One, Wayne Gretski (and Steve Jobs re-quoted it)

“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”


To Accelerate your creative journey and create pictures that inspire. Whatever your creative expression and however you do it, learn how to capture these moments with the one camera you’ll always have in your back pocket. Up your game with our iPhone courses!

 Photo Cred: Jyehro Poquizwww.jpoquiz.com
Ted Livingston