IPhone X and SLR comparison at Jack London State Park

The Age of the iPhone

It’s hard to beat the portability and versatility of an iPhone. Not only do I use it to take pictures, but it also uses GPS to track my hikes, recording location, elevation, and distance traveled. I can then use the GPS data to tag the pictures take from my 80D which lacks automated geo-tagging.

Specs

Of course, a camera phone still has a long ways to compete with the huge and heavy 100-400mm zoom lens (on an crop sensor and with a 1.4X extender too!) I use for most wildlife closeups. But what about landscape photos?

iPhone X

Images shot using Photo mode

Shot in HEIF and subsequently converted to JPEG

Canon 5D mk 4

24mm f/2.8 IS USM

Shot in A+ mode (Auto exposure and Auto Area focus mode)

Shot in RAW and converted to JPEG after processing in Lightroom

All photos downsampled to 1000px horizontally. 667px vert for Canon, 750px for iPhone.

The Photos!

Fern Lake

Canon 5D mk 4

iPhone X

Ancient Redwood

Canon 5D mk 4

iPhone X

Vineyard

Canon 5D mk 4

iPhone X