iPhone 5 “purple halo” gets Apple statement

By: on 10.7.12
Purple Haze on iPhone

Purple Haze on iPhone

If you’ve been using your iPhone 5 since the start and have never noticed a little bit of the ol’ Purple Haze appearing at the edge of your photos, you’re lucky – Apple has just addressed this situation occurring with some users in an official statement. It would appear that if you’ve got a light source right outside the viewing area of your iPhone 5′s camera lens, you get a purple light leak into your final photo product. Apple has let it be known that users should be pointing cameras away from bright light sources to do away with the oddity altogether. Read the full story at Slashgear.

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Shelly Palmer is Fox 5 New York's On-air Tech Expert (WNYW-TV) and the host of Fox Television's monthly show Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He also hosts United Stations Radio Network's, Shelly Palmer Digital Living Daily, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards).

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  • http://blog.caseylessard.com Casey Lessard

    You see this colour show itself as fringing even with high-end DSLRs. It’s pretty easy to fix fringing, but I imagine this particular phenomenon is tougher to fix. My answer? Photoshop with a layer that counters the colour either using a green tint or simply by desaturating that area a bit. But it’s not an answer that will make iPhone-ographers happy.