Apple Addresses iPhone 5 Lens Flare Issue: "stop holding it wrong"

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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410679,00.asp

Remember that purple lens flare issue with the iPhone 5's camera? Sure you do—PCMag's own Jim Fisher recently did a big piece reproducing and comparing lens flare intrusions on photos taken with Apple's new smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S III , the HTC One S .
Now Apple has addressed the issue itself, acknowledging over the weekend that the imaging of a "purplish or other colored flare, haze, or spot" can occur in "[m]ost small cameras, including those in every generation of iPhone."
So how to fix this problem? Unfortunately, as the iPhone maker has done in the past, the advice for users on how to get around this particular issue is essentially to "stop holding it wrong."

[TheTominator]

To even things out, I expected the headline to read "Lens Flair".

[OWC Jamie]

Yeah right. doesn't even have to be directly into the sun. Just a bright area in the photo with the sunlight shining onto something... purple flare.

[cbelt3]

TheTominator wrote:
To even things out, I expected the headline to read "Lens Flair".

[silvarios]

OWC Jamie wrote:
Yeah right. doesn't even have to be directly into the sun. Just a bright area in the photo with the sunlight shining onto something... purple flare.

How long have you been a Microsoft/Google/Samsung/Amazon plant, solely here to sow seeds of discord.

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"Of the phones tested, only two were able to really suppress flare: the iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S III...Flare is but one aspect of the camera's performance—shots from the iPhone 5 are noticeably sharper than those from the Galaxy S III , especially when shooting in macro mode, even though that phone's camera is less prone to flare than the iPhone 5."

[Racer X]

ANY optical system will flare to some degree if strong directional light hits the front element. It may not be visable to the human eye, but it is still there and is measurable.