Pro Max camera system (real) is why you buy this phone. Whether you are shooting stylish street scenes or recording the cinema project for the film class, the iPhone 17 Pro Max has all the tools you need to get.

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The phone has a triple 48MP fusion camera system, which has the same important and extremely wide camera, such as the iPhone 17, with a telephoto camera with optical zoom. The main camera has a F/1.78 aperture with optical image stability and can take 2x “optical quality” 2X telephotoes. The ultra -wide camera has a 13mm lens, a f/2.2 aperture, a view of 120 degrees, and can shoot at a full 48MP resolution if desired. Finally, the telephoto camera has a 100 mm equivalent lens with a 4x optical zoom (which is less than 5x optical zoom of 16 Pro Max), and the 8x “optical quality” zoom using the main 12MP section of the sensor. The phone supports the digital zoom up to 40x.
The feature list is almost endless. It consists of adaptive real tone flash, deep fusion, smart HDR 5, portrait lighting, focus and deep control, night mode, panorama and photography style. You can capture Puro, Haf, JPEG, and DNG files, and the camera has automatic macro mode for shooting close ups.
If you just want to indicate and shoot, you can do the same. Press the camera control to launch the camera app and press to fire the image. Or, use easy on -screen photo and video buttons to capture the scene quickly. The latest tools are just a swipe away in the new camera application.
The results are a significant step in iPhone Air and iPhone 17. The images I look sharp, have more detail, and provide a bit more visual pop than similar shots with the iPhone 17. You are clearly clean and less noise than any zoom zoom zoom zooms in the past 2x or 4x. Shots Zoom 8X looks fine, but digital zooming begins to lose about 10x details and resolution about the past. I will let the photo speak for myself.
0.5x zoom (Credit: Eric Ziman)
1 x zoom (Credit: Eric Ziman)
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4x zoom (Credit: Eric Ziman)
8 x zoom (Credit: Eric Ziman)
(Credit: Eric Ziman)
(Credit: Eric Ziman)
Pro Max distributes its selfie camera with the rest of the iPhone 17 lineup, which means this is the new 18 MP center stage system. This is Apple’s absolutely new front camera. It has a square sensor (1: 1 instead of 4: 3), which facilitates you to take a vertical or side visual photos, even if you are holding the phone. In addition, the lens supports a short range of digital zoom, which brings theory to a wide and standard sectors on both landscape and portrait shots. It is far more flexible than other selfie cameras, though there is a little learning curved letters to gain control of it.
Selfie Camera (Credit: Eric Zemon)
Selfie Camera (Credit: Eric Zemon)
Serious video graves should not be disturbed by any other phone. 17 Pro Max has high video capture tools and produce permanently high results.
The phone can record 4K dolby vision footage from the main camera 24, 25, 30, 60, 100, or 120fps. It supports cinema mode (which introduces portrait styling bucks) at 4K30, and supports action mode with stability at 2.8K60. If you connect the phone with an external storage device, it handles the recording at 4K120. The phone 4K60 supports the Dolby Vision, the Academy Color Incoding System (ACES), Apple Log 2, Gennalk, Macro Capture Slow Motion and Time Pass, Night Mode, and Quick Tech Video.
The footage is just wonderful. Although Google and Samsung phones can capture high resolution 8K30 content, they do not support maximum video methods or frame rates, nor can they handle colorful standards such as post processing flexibility.