The way one is enticed to review the images of the iPhone 12 Pro Max is in a comparison of details. And it’s practically begging you to do it. Because it already knows how well it’s going to do there. So well practiced for that round of the fight is the new iPhone, it’s like it’s backing into an alley way, hoping you’ll come try to mug just so it can impress you with its judo. The images are designed to stun you. To flip your mind.
I showed this photo of an old 35mm Nikkor lens to my partner and she was duly impressed. I tried to point out some of the nuanced flaws — the muddled rendering of the fabric in areas, the overly uniform out-of-focus areas, and that esoteric, overwrought hardness of local contrast but it was lost on her. “But that detail… is amazing,” she said. She was right. The detail is nothing short of spectacular in the iPhone 12, which finds detail like a hunting dog, flushing it out of hiding and bringing it back to its owner, proud, satisfied and ready to go out again. Do it! Send me! Let’s go get it!
But there is another way to review the images of an iPhone 12 Pro Max. We still can compare images, but we might need to ask more delving questions.
The Voight-Kampff Test
In the movie Blade Runner, replicants are bio-engineered beings nearly indistinguishable…
