Apple's iPhone 13 And The Best Camera System I Never Thought About Being In A Cellular Phone.

The iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 pro are there for the public to own. At the end of the commercial, it dawned on me that the commercial has its' problems from one perspective. The fact that this is a phone.

However, if you're looking for a great camera, the iPhone 13 comes with the most advanced camera system in history. If you don't believe the hype, just check out a few of the features of that new camera that your cellular provider is trying to push.

Pro 12MP camera system: Telephoto, Wide, and Ultra Wide cameras

Telephoto: ƒ/2.8 aperture

Wide: ƒ/1.5 aperture

Ultra-Wide: ƒ/1.8 aperture and 120° field of view

3x optical zoom in, 2x optical zoom out; 6x optical zoom range

Digital zoom up to 15x

Night mode portraits enabled by LiDAR Scanner

Portrait mode with advanced bokeh and Depth Control

Portrait Lighting with six effects (Natural, Studio, Contour, Stage, Stage Mono, High‑Key Mono)

Dual optical image stabilization (Telephoto and Wide)

Sensor‑shift optical image stabilization (Wide)

Six‑element lens (Telephoto and Ultra-Wide); seven‑element lens (Wide)

True Tone flash with Slow Sync

Panorama (up to 63MP)

Sapphire crystal lens cover

100% Focus Pixels (Wide)

Night mode

Deep Fusion

Smart HDR 4

Photographic Styles

Macro photography

Apple ProRAW

Wide color capture for photos and Live Photos

Lens correction (Ultra Wide)

Advanced red‑eye correction

Photo geotagging

Auto image stabilization

Burst mode

Image formats captured: HEIF and JPEG

There you have it! It's everything you need to film your Youtube series, podcast series, Tik Tok videos, take all your photos on, and save every minute of life that you live to be shared onto social media.

Admittedly, I have an iPhone 11 pro. It's a great phone and one that I'll miss when I eventually upgrade. However, I am without a doubt confused by the advertising. These are still communication devices. Yet, there was nothing advertised about the clearest calls you'll ever make, fewer calls being dropped, faster dialing, expanded memory, or anything that might be impressive in a phone.

The iPhone 13 is apparently rated IP68 and water-resistant for up to 30 minutes at a max depth of 16 meters. The ingress protection, or International Protection Ratings, are a standard set forth by the International Electrotechnical Commission. The codes are designed as a system for classifying the degrees of protection that are provided by enclosures of the electrical equipment. The first number represents the degree of protection against the entry of foreign solid objects such as fingers or dust. The range is between 0 and 6. The second number represents the degree of protection against the entry of moisture or fluids, with protection levels ranging from 0 to 8. IP68 would be the top-rated protection level available at this time. 

With all of the apps available, and the convenience of having a personal computer that is always at your side, the new iPhone 13 is no doubt the next best thing in the lineup of cellular devices. For those of us that are older, we're starting to wonder when the business of selling phones will return and we can be less concerned with cameras, shooting movies, digital editing, and personal computing. When will we see cellular devices start to focus again on their shortcomings?

Until the cellular companies stop making the ability of cell phones to make a call in a clearer, more stable way, the business of apps, tunes, and camera systems will continue to be their main focus. Which, if a phone manufacturer is only focused on cameras, then perhaps the camera companies should transition to phones and provide us with more options when it's time for those pesky upgrades.

If I call a town nine miles from home and the calls continually drop, that's something that iPhone might want to work on. When one of the cell phone manufacturers finally does work on boosting the ability to maintain calls, then perhaps I'll get excited about new iPhones or even an Android. Until then, I'll stick with my current two-year-old model that works just as good as the day I walked out of my local Verizon store.

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