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iPhone 14 Pro Camera Lenses – Focal Length Comparison

iPhone 14 Pro Max camera lenses
iPhone 14 Pro Max camera lenses (Photo: Apple Inc)

Similar to the iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro lines, the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max camera has three lenses. The iPhone 14 Pro, Max main lens is 24 mm vs 26 mm in the iPhone 11, 12 & 13 Pro. The telephoto lens in the 11 and 12 Pro is 52mm. In the 13 Pro and 14 Pro, the telephoto lens is 77 mm. The lens focal lengths in the Apple specifications are the equivalent focal length of a 35 mm camera, not the actual focal length.

Screen shot of the iPhone 14 Pro Max camera interface
Screen shot of the iPhone 14 Pro Max camera interface

12MP Ultra Wide: 13 mm, ƒ/2.2 aperture with a 120° field of view, six‑element lens:

Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco taken with iPhone 14 Pro Max lens, 12MP Ultra Wide, taken from Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands
Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco taken with iPhone 14 Pro Max lens, 12MP Ultra Wide: 13 mm, ƒ/2.2 aperture and 120° field of view

48MP Main: 24 mm, ƒ/1.78 aperture, second-generation sensor-shift optical image stabilization, seven‑element lens:

Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco taken with iPhone 14 Pro Max main lens, 24 mm, ƒ/1.78 aperture, taken from Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands
Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco taken with iPhone 14 Pro Max main lens, 24 mm, ƒ/1.78 aperture, taken from Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands

12MP 3x Telephoto: 77 mm, ƒ/2.8 aperture, optical image stabilization, six-element lens:

Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco taken with iPhone 14 Pro Max 12MP 2x Telephoto (enabled by quad-pixel sensor): 48 mm, ƒ/1.78 aperture, from Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands
Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco taken with iPhone 14 Pro Max 12MP 2x Telephoto (enabled by quad-pixel sensor): 48 mm, ƒ/1.78 aperture, from Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands

Apple includes a 12MP 2x Telephoto (enabled by quad-pixel sensor): 48 mm, ƒ/1.78 aperture, second-generation sensor-shift optical image stabilization, seven‑element lens, 100% Focus Pixels, which isn’t an image produced from a 48 mm lens but by taking 12 MP from the center of the 48 MP sensor and then doing some image processing on it:

Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco taken with iPhone 14 Pro Max main lens, 24 mm, ƒ/1.78 aperture, taken from Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands
Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco taken with iPhone 14 Pro Max main lens, 24 mm, ƒ/1.78 aperture, taken from Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands
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Silver Creek Preserve with DALL-E

Last July, I was fly fishing the Silver Creek, “A unique spring creek with abundant wildlife… one of the most spectacular natural places in Idaho.” (1)

I took the photo below with my iPhone 13 Pro Max while I was fishing.

Silver Creek Preserve
Silver Creek, taken with an iPhone 13 Pro Max

I’ve been trying out OpenAI and DALL-E, “a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.” (2)

For the prompt, I took some text from the Nature Conservancy’s description and added some details, “A unique spring creek trout habitat, Silver Creek in the summer is one of the most spectacular natural places in Idaho.” This was one of the results:

Footnotes: (1) Silver Creek Preserve – Nature Conservancy, Fishing Idaho’s Iconic Silver Creek; (2) DALL-E, DALL-E Wikipedia entry

March 21, 2023: Image Creator from Bing was released today and I used the same prompt that I used for DALL-E. I don’t know why Image Creator by Bing made this super-saturated unrealistic image:

Bing Image Creator AI image of Silver Creek in Idaho