With the iPhone 17 Professional and 17 Professional Max, Apple launched a brand new design for the rear of the machine. As an alternative of a digicam bump, we now have a digicam plateau that spans nearly all the again of the iPhone. The digicam plateau homes an upgraded digicam system that features a revamped Telephoto lens.
All three of the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max cameras are 48 megapixels, and there are 5 zoom choices throughout the lenses.
Telephoto Lens
The 48-megapixel Fusion Telephoto lens is new, and an improve over the 12-megapixel Telephoto lens within the iPhone 16 Professional fashions. It helps 4x zoom, or a 100mm focal size equal. At 4x zoom, you possibly can seize 48-megapixel pictures.
It additionally helps 8x zoom, or a 200mm focal size equal. 8x zoom pictures are restricted to 12 megapixels. Apple says that the Telephoto sensor is 56 p.c bigger, permitting for improved efficiency in poor lighting situations.
The Telephoto lens helps Hybrid Focus Pixels, 3D sensor-shift optical picture stabilization and autofocus, and it has the tetraprism design that Apple launched final yr.
The 8x optical zoom may be expanded to 40x digital zoom. It does not fairly match the 100x zoom that Samsung’s smartphones are recognized for, but it surely does broaden the zoom vary in comparison with prior iPhones.
Huge Lens
The 48-megapixel wide-angle lens, or Fusion Important lens as Apple refers to it, hasn’t modified a lot in comparison with the iPhone 16 Professional.
You may take 24-megapixel or 48-megapixel pictures at the usual 24mm focal size, or 12-megapixel 2x Telephoto pictures at a 48mm focal size.
Options embody second-generation sensor-shift optical picture stabilization, one hundred pc Focus Pixels, and an f/1.78 aperture.
Extremely Huge-Angle Lens
Apple calls the 48-megapixel extremely broad lens the Fusion Extremely Huge. It has a 13mm focal size, an f/2.2 aperture, and a 120 diploma discipline of view. It helps taking close-up 48-megapixel macro pictures, and has assist for what Apple calls Hybrid Focus Pixels.
LiDAR and Flash
On the proper facet of the digicam plateau, there’s an Adaptive True Tone Flash and LiDAR Scanner.
Different Digital camera Options
Different digicam expertise that Apple has launched through the years is included.
- Photonic Engine – Combines the very best pixels from a high-resolution picture and a picture optimized for gentle seize, producing a 24-megapixel picture with element sourced from a picture twice the decision. The Photonic Engine kicks in for low gentle pictures.
- Deep Fusion – Works in mid to low lighting situations and brings out the feel and element within the picture. It improves pictures with medium lighting.
- Good HDR 5 – Acknowledges a number of folks in a scene and optimizes distinction, lighting, and pores and skin tones so everybody seems their greatest.
- Portrait pictures with Focus and Depth Management – You do not want to decide on Portrait mode earlier than capturing a picture to get a portrait shot. You may simply snap a photograph, and if there’s an individual or a pet, depth data is collected and Portrait mode is enabled routinely with a blurred background. It really works for Night time mode, too.
- Portrait Lighting – Adjustments the lighting of Portrait mode pictures with results that embody Pure, Studio, Contour, Stage, Stage Mono, and Excessive-Key Mono.
- Night time mode – Takes a sequence of pictures over just a few seconds and aggregates them to permit for images in excessive low lighting conditions.
- Panorama – Captures panoramic pictures which can be as much as 63 megapixels in dimension.
- Photographic Kinds (together with a brand new Shiny choice this yr) – Photographic Kinds are filters which you can apply earlier than a picture is captured, previewing them as you’re taking a shot.
- Spatial pictures and movies – Movies and pictures captured in spatial mode may be seen in 3D on the Imaginative and prescient Professional.
- ProRAW – A professional video recording choice.
- Lens correction (for the Extremely Huge) – Eliminates distortion.
- Auto picture stabilization – Corrects for digicam shake.
- Burst mode – Permits a sequence of pictures to be captured suddenly, which is nice for high-action pictures.
Video Capabilities
The iPhone 17 Professional fashions assist recording 4K Dolby Imaginative and prescient video at as much as 120 frames per second.
4K 120fps ProRes video recording is accessible with an exterior storage machine hooked up, and the iPhone 17 Professional fashions assist ProRes RAW recording, a brand new characteristic this yr. There’s additionally assist for Apple Log 2 and Genlock video synchronization, professional options aimed toward filmmakers.
Apple added a Twin Seize characteristic that data from the back and front cameras on the identical time. Twin Seize helps as much as 4K Dolby Imaginative and prescient recording at 30 frames per second.
Different video options that Apple has added through the years are additionally obtainable.
- Cinematic mode as much as 4K Dolby Imaginative and prescient at 30 fps for retaining the give attention to the primary topic whilst you transfer
- Motion mode as much as 2.8K Dolby Imaginative and prescient at 60 fps for enhancing stabilization to scale back shake
- Spatial video recording at 1080p at 30 fps, with spatial audio
- Academy Coloration Encoding System
- Macro video recording, together with slo-mo and time-lapse
- 1080p Slo-mo assist at as much as 240 fps, or 4K Dolby Imaginative and prescient at 120 fps
- Time-lapse
- QuickTake
- Digital zoom as much as 15x
- Cinematic video stabilization
- Steady autofocus video
- Audio Combine and wind noise discount
Entrance Digital camera
Apple added a brand new 18-megapixel Middle Stage front-facing digicam for selfies and video calls. It has an f/1.8 aperture, and because the identify suggests, it helps Middle Stage. Middle Stage is the characteristic that retains you in body throughout video calls as you progress round.
The up to date entrance digicam sensor is bigger and it’s square-shaped, which implies extra can match within the body than earlier than. You may even take front-facing cameras in panorama or portrait mode with out rotating your telephone. Apple additionally improved stabilization when capturing video.
Twin Seize video works with each the entrance and rear cameras, so you possibly can report a scene and your response on the identical time.
Different iPhones
The iPhone 17 Professional fashions are the one units which have the three-camera setup. The usual iPhone 17 has a dual-lens digicam setup with broad and ultra-wide lenses, whereas the iPhone Air has a single-lens digicam that is equal to the Important digicam on the 17 Professional.