Cue the outrage of people who think they *should* be able to take pictures of the sun, and how it's all a conspiracy, and that their Blackberry/Android device allowed them to take pictures of the sun, etc.

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Originally Posted by Gazoobee 

Cue the outrage of people who think they *should* be able to take pictures of the sun, and how it's all a conspiracy, and that their Blackberry/Android device allowed them to take pictures of the sun, etc.

Dummies shouldn't even be allowed to use a smartphone, IMO.

I want an apology letter!

I have seen a little of this with my iPhone 5 in the transition from dark interiors to bright windows, as an example.

This fringing (chromatic aberration) is easily removed in a vaiety of processing tools.  I use Lightroom which has excellent - and very simple - adjustments to correct this sort of thing.  Not a big deal.  Not FringeGate.

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Dummies shouldn't even be allowed to use a smartphone, IMO.

hasn't anyone told them that all you have to do is stare directly at the sun for a few minutes to re-calibrate your eyes for the chromatic aberration effects? 

just a joke people.. don't try this. I don't want to get sued. 

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Originally Posted by Thomaspin 

I have seen a little of this with my iPhone 5 in the transition from dark interiors to bright windows, as an example.

 

This fringing (chromatic aberration) is easily removed in a vaiety of processing tools.  I use Lightroom which has excellent - and very simple - adjustments to correct this sort of thing.  Not a big deal.  Not FringeGate.

wouldn't it be great if the Photo app (i.e. Camera roll) automatically fixed this? 

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Originally Posted by Gazoobee 

Cue the outrage of people who think they *should* be able to take pictures of the sun, and how it's all a conspiracy, and that their Blackberry/Android device allowed them to take pictures of the sun, etc.

Cue? It's already queued. A 5 min skim of comment sections..

(yes, this guy is actually outraged that Apple is 'infringing upon his freedoms' with their response. No doubt he's taken similar outraged stances against other issues which do actually infringe freedom. No, I doubt it.)

The vicious, kneejerk Apple hatred online is stunning. If I could bottle it up it would have quite the destructive power. Keep in mind:

1- every single camera ever produced will have some type of fringing when pointing a certain way at a strong light source. 

2. I've taken a couple hundred photos with the iPhone 5, many which include the sun, and not once have I experienced this purple fringing. 

But yes, it's quite possible to get fringing when pointing at the sun, etc, which my $1,500 SLR also gets.

But I think the media should run with this, I expect some hard hitting piece from the NYT, Washington Post, and another heartfelt analogy from Tim Cook for this unforgiveable travesty. 

I'm seriously starting to get nauseous and losing all faith in humanity by this spoiled, whiny, entitled, ignorant sense of entitlement and faux outrage. Do people not recall it was only 5 years ago when a touchscreen phone entailed using a shitty stylus to try and get a shitty resistive screen to register your taps after after 9 times? I recall it well. God knows where'd we'd still be if Apple didn't pull us out of the darkness, but now, it's an outrage if they don't single-handedly solve the physics of light which has plagued every camera on the planet in their phone. 

OK, I take the "outraged people" role.
There's no possible way that the "purple fringing," like in the example image above, is normal or acceptable. I can assure you that it isn't anything like "normal chromatic aberration" either (not proportianllay related to distance from the center of the lens.) I would describe it as pronounced "purple flaring" possibly caused by internal reflections in the lens or as an artifact of the design of the sensor. This is a camera design problem.
If Apple thinks this is normal and acceptable, I would just see this as another reason (along with the aluminum case) to either stick with the 4S or wait for the next decently designed iPhone---a pretty difficult resolution to keep, in light of the other very real & tantalizing HW & SW improvements made with the iP5!

If you look at JJ Abrams Movies & TV Shows (i.e. Star Trek and Fringe) you will see that some directors use this light flare from bright light sources as an artistic addition.  

It happens with most lenses at different angles.  Hence the lens flare cover on most SLRs.

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Originally Posted by Thomaspin 

I have seen a little of this with my iPhone 5 in the transition from dark interiors to bright windows, as an example.

 

This fringing (chromatic aberration) is easily removed in a vaiety of processing tools.  I use Lightroom which has excellent - and very simple - adjustments to correct this sort of thing.  Not a big deal.  Not FringeGate.

Except you know how to do that and have the tools.  You don't represent the majority of people.  Most people just want to point and shoot and aren't used to being cognizant of having to adjust for lighting, much less have a copy of Lightroom laying around or something similar.  They may use iPhoto and even then aren't experts at it (it's not hard).  While the purple haze can be reproduced on the 4 and 4S (remember the 4 had a green dot/haze in the middle of pictures depending on indoor lighting against white backgrounds), I think the issue here is that it's easier to get the effect on the 5.  You get it more often.  Who knows.  I am getting mine in a couple of weeks, so I'll see what happens.  I don't really take many pictures.  Maybe it's the new lense cover.  Sapphire crystal right?  There is a thing called physics at work here. 

It'll be fixed in the 5S.