iPhone 11 camera for coins?!?

Just picked up my new iPhone 11 yesterday, and it has the best camera I've ever seen on any phone!!! So I put it up to the test of taking pictures of my most valuable coin and here's what it did.....

(These pictures are from an iPhone 11, no macro lens attached, taken by hand, through a slab!!!!!)


UNBELIEVABLE!

 

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Mine are taken with a Google Pixel 3a. Never been happier with my coin photos.

Just gotta take the time to re-shoot several others, which would be awhile.

True these are not macro, but for a cell phone camera? I am happy.

 

Thanks, my friend! I couldn't believe it. Honestly, better than my usb microscope!!!

 

I'll stick with my "real camera" Canon dSLR. The miniature sensor size used in phones and excessive digital enhancement of the images make the results harsh to my eye. These show a much reduced overall view and a cropped from the same file but not reduced section. The unreduced files make good 20x30" prints but who wants prints of coins that big?



If you use extension tubes, you can get close for uncropped small coin details with a real camera, too, but CT won't accept files that large so it is hard to demonstrate here. This is reduced some to fit here. To get good sharpness at this size, it would be best to use image stacking.



I am fond of my phone for calls and texts but only use the included camera when I am somewhere where I can't take a "real camera".

 

Those photos look terrible. Phone home!

Chris

 

For what that phone might have cost, you could have gotten a nice trinocular microscope with optical zoom & camera attachment to boot.

Chris

 

I can't wait to buy a nice expensive high end coin microscope someday in the future.....but for a cell phone and taken through a slab.....to capture a DDR like that is pretty impressive in my opinion.

 

I'm guessing the microscope gets much poorer cell coverage. You probably can't get as many games for it, either.

 

To the OP: those photos do show some fine detail, but they're also kind of blurry, probably because it's hard to hold the phone still enough for this kind of photography. What happens if you put the phone on top of a stack of books, with its camera(s) hanging over the edge, and take photos that way? You may be very pleased with the difference...

 

That's why I said "Phone home!" in my earliest post.....ala E.T.!

Chris

 

Making progress in the right direction!

 

I do! I'd love to make a few prints of my coins and hang them up in my office. Maybe I'd have a few on rotation and switch them up occasionally.

 

I'm waiting for the iphone 15 to drop another 2k into first. It'll have to be at least 4 times better than the 11 by then right?

 

I can't tell if trolling

 

I really hope you're joking, but I can't tell.

Those pictures are downright awful.

 

For a cell phone camera, and through a slab, I thought the detail was extremely impressive.....

 

I took this with my Samsun S7.
I don't like the phone but it takes great photos.

 

It certainly does. Phones have come a long way. I just refuse to keep one on me as I don't appreciate being tracked and everything I do being monitored and/or stored. I definitely don't see the need to continuously upgrade like so many in the younger generations seem to fell the need to do. Plus I can't see the damn tiny screens.