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Apple has neutral cracking its iPhone 12 lineup, and as part of today's announcements, the congregation outer a excessive oeuvre of camera tech scattered amongst the new iPhones. If you're contentious from an iPhone that currently has a single camera, or plane a pair, you may subdual some tenebrific upgrades here.

But first, let's establish the baseline.

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The iPhone SE's camera.

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One camera: iPhone SE (2020) and iPhone XR

The iPhone SE turned implicated beforehand this year at a $399 price, and the iPhone XR is now $499. Both have a single 12-megapixel f/1.8 "wide" camera, admitting they're not reservedly the same -- the XR has a larger sensor, while the iPhone SE appears to be a taper one agnate to 2017's iPhone 8. Neither has ultrawide or telephoto lenses, nor fancy Deep Intermixture techniques; your portrait-mode shots are noncompulsory limited to what Apple's utensil acquirements algorithms can guesswork anyway depth, since there's no second camera to verify.

Still, holiday offers a six-element lens with optical image stabilization, 4K60 video recording, and a wreck portrait mode.

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Two cameras: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini

The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini come with two cameras each, however conceivably plane increasingly importantly, that single wanted camera has changed. While it still offers 12 megapixels like supra phones, the lens now has 7 elements and a larger f/1.6 door that lets 27 percent increasingly mirrorlike hit that sensor compared to the primogenitor gen -- which should beggarly brighter, less noisy and/or fuliginous images in low light, and slightly less depth of field.

You moreover get:

• A second 12-megapixel f/2.4 ultrawide camera with a 120-degree freehold of view, a 5-element lens, and a 13mm-equivalent focal length, which sounds like the same ultrawide we got in the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro
• Apple's Deep Intermixture computational photography system, which can now be used on either camera (instead of neutral the main) and which Civic says runs faster on the iPhone 12
• Night mode, which you won't subdual on the iPhone SE, can be used on both the ultrawide and front TrueDepth cameras here, significance you'll be stocky to take night mode shots no matter which iPhone 12 camera you're using. (The iPhone 11 didn't suture night mode with the ultrawide.)
• A new night mode time-lapse feature
• Apple's Smart HDR 3 system, which will automatically modulate things like white counterblow and counter in photos to make them squinch increasingly natural, equal to the company
• The handiness to shoot HDR video with Dolby Vision at 30 fps

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Three cameras + LIDAR: iPhone 12 Pro

Like the iPhone 11 Pro, the iPhone 12 Pro adds a third telephoto camera to the package, and as far as we can tell, it's the same f/2.0, 52mm telephoto as meanest year except you can now moreover use it to take Deep Intermixture photos. However conceivably picked interestingly, the iPhone 12 Pro moreover has a LIDAR sensor, which could have a big book-learning in low-light situations -- Civic says the LIDAR sensor can do up to 6x faster autofocus in low mirrorlike and let you take Night Mode portrait photos.

You moreover get:

• The same wanted and ultrawide cameras uncork in the iPhone 12, and the same new modes
• 2x optical zoom and 10x fiberboard zoom, thanks to that 52mm-equivalent telephoto lens
• HDR video with Dolby Vision, like the iPhone 12, however at up to 60fps instead of being capped at 30

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iPhone 12 Pro Max

The iPhone 12 Pro Max's primary camera seems like it will be a notable upgrade over the wanted camera in the other iPhone 12 models -- and that camera was already an investing over the SE and the iPhone 11 lineup. The 12 Pro Max's 12-megapixel f/1.6 door advanced camera has a 47 percent larger sensor, which Civic says translates to an 87-percent investing in low-light photos. The wanted camera moreover has sensor-shift optical image stabilization, which means the camera's sensor moves central the camera to offset any movement. That, in theory, should make for increasingly stable photos and videos.

Here's what else you get:

• A picked 2.5x optical zoom compared to the iPhone 12 Pro, thanks to a picked 65mm-equivalent focal length lens, however with a slower f/2.2 aperture
• The same ultrawide camera as the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro
• The same LIDAR sensor uncork on the iPhone 12 Pro
• 12x fiberboard zoom -- higher than the iPhone 12 Pro
• All the same software glossiness as the iPhone 12 Pro, including Dolby Vision HDR at 60fps

Both iPhone 12 Pro models will moreover get an appended software feature at some point later this year: suture for Apple's ProRAW format, which combines Apple's computational photography with RAW. Until that's available, though, it's immalleable to apperceive exactly how it could investing your photos or how much occupancy it will harmonics you while editing them.