iphone 5

Rather than up the pixel count for the new iSight camera, Apple has get the same 8-megapixel resolution, but gone for a sensor that's 15 per cent bigger than the one on the iPhone 5. This means that the pixels are larger at 1.5 microns. In layman's terms, larg- er pixels means more light per pixel, which means better low-light performance. Add in the new f/2.2 aperture lens, which lets in more light than the iPhone 5's f/2.4 lens, and the new model should be able to shoot more detail in low light. When you do need to change to the flash, things get even better, as the iPhone 5S has dual-LED True Tone flash. This has one white LED and one amber LED. By analysing the scene, thanks to the image processor on the A7 chip, the iPhone 5S can work out the colour temperature of the scene and fire a flash accordingly. This means it's goodbye to strange colour casts on image, or unnatural skin tones. In fact, with True Tone pictures no longer look as though they were taken with a flash, it's that impressive.

There are some new shooting modes, too. First is burst mode, which you see a lot on compact cameras. However, here, it's some- thing even more impressive, as the iPhone 5S can shoot at 10fps, full resolution for as long as you've got spare storage space. We hit more than 200 pictures at the phone showed no sign of slowing down. Thanks to iOS 7 there are now more filters available on the phone, so you can switch to black and white, sepia, amongst others, when you take a shot. Filters are non-destructive (copy the images off the phone via USB and you'll get the original image), so you can remove a filter at a later date or add one to a normal photo instead. The same goes for the square mode pictures, which are non-destructive crops of the original image, so you can recover the full frame if you want. Panoramas are still as impressive as when they were introduced with the iPhone 5. Just turn on the spot while holding the phone steady using the online guide and the images are stitched together practically as quickly as you can move. It's the video camera that's had the biggest overhaul thanks to the A7's image processor. As well as shooting 1080p video, which looks great, even in low-light thanks to the new sensor, it has a brand-new Slo-Mo mode, which shoots 720p at 120fps. When played back at the regular 30fps, you get stunning slow motion.