Prothat you recently night photo test of iPhone 16e vs. iPhone 16 Plus It was quite interesting, it would be a shame not to follow it up with another one. This time I pitted myself against iPhone 16e and iPhone 16 Pro – that is, the cheapest and most expensive “sixteen” iPhones, which are basically separated by a whopping CZK 13,000. But is this amount, which is almost equal to the purchase price of one iPhone 16e, visible when comparing the evening photos? You can see exactly that in the photos below. If you are interested in how they cost iPhone 16e vs iPhone 16 Pro during the day in good light, you can blink to our older article.
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Just like in the article comparing night photography iPhonem 16e and 16 Plus I must say right away that you can tell the use of a smaller photo sensor in a cheaper model just by the fact that taking photos in night mode takes longer. What you are able to do on iPhone 16 Pro to take a photo in night mode in one second, the iPhone 16e takes three seconds (literally) due to the need to obtain more image data. You will often also find that while iPhone 16 Pro can take a picture of the scene without activating night mode, iPhone 16e must use this mode to achieve a high-quality result. Therefore, it is necessary to take into account that if you want to iPhone 16e to take pictures in the evening in the dark, you need to have significantly stronger hands than you need for taking pictures with iPhonem. 16 Pro. ProWell, let's face it - holding your phone still for three seconds is no fun.
If I were to evaluate the quality of the photos, exactly what applies here is what applies to all the previous comparisons – that is, it has iPhone 16e tends to enhance photos with software more than is sometimes appropriate, as they sometimes look a bit unnatural. It is true that some photos from 16e are more pleasing to the eye than those from 16 Pro, but those from a more expensive phone are much closer to reality. iPhone 16 camera Pro It also excels at capturing details, which can be noticed when zoomed in.
In general, however, I am not afraid to say that when directly comparing the camera of the iPhone 16e and 16 Pro The cheaper model doesn't perform badly at all and there's no direct comparison with other models, I don't really care about the lower level of detail or certain distortion. The comparison ultimately shows what the given model has in reserve and what it could theoretically be capable of with better hardware.
Photos from iPhone 16e
Photos from iPhone 16 Pro
The answer to the question of whether the iPhone camera is 16 Pro is really 13,000 CZK better than the iPhone 16e camera at night, everyone has to create their own opinion based on their photographic preferences. Personally, I don't see any fundamental difference here, although I must of course admit that iPhone 16 Pro can handle night photography better. But if I had to decide based only on the camera whether to buy a phone for 16,990 CZK or pay an extra 13,000 CZK and go for the iPhone 16 Pro for 29,990 CZK, I certainly wouldn't justify the extra cost with just the camera.
I wasn't interested in 16 until now, but I like some of her photos more, at least for viewing on mobile in group photos.
Like 13 thousand extra is not just about the camera, but if it was about the camera then it's worth it nestoji
PS: will there be a video recording?
And that Pro It has two cameras, nothing extra, you can take portraits with natural blur, wide-angle landscape photos and all that in RAWwhen you get rid of excessive sharpening.
If it were purely about the camera, it would be more worth buying the 16e for that price, because the 16pro is really no miracle in photography. I even started thinking about the 16e, because that phone also has decent battery life and maintains its compactness and decent price