The iPhone 16e is Apple’s solely iPhone with a single-lens rear digital camera, and whereas it has the identical 48-megapixel Broad lens because the iPhone 16, it’s missing a number of of the iPhone 16 digital camera options.
With the 48-megapixel Fusion lens, the iPhone 16e digital camera has a regular 1x subject of view, and a 2x zoom possibility. It has no Telephoto lens, so there aren’t any different zoom choices, neither is there an Extremely Broad digital camera for wide-angle photographs and macro pictures. Since there’s only one lens, there’s additionally no possibility for spatial picture and video seize.
It provides the identical True Tone flash, Photonic Engine, Deep Fusion, and Sensible HDR 5 choices, however it doesn’t assist next-generation portraits with Focus Management or the newest Photographic Kinds.
When taking Portrait photographs, there may be an possibility to regulate focus afterward, however there is no such thing as a choice to faucet to vary the topic of the picture like there may be on the iPhone 16.
The newer Photographic Kinds are additionally just for the iPhone 16, 16 Professional, and Professional Max. With Photographic Kinds, the iPhone 16 fashions launched in September characteristic an choice to set an total search for all pictures captured with the iPhone digital camera, however this does not exist for the 16e. Older type filters can be found, nonetheless.
There are additionally a number of lacking video recording options, together with Cinematic mode and Motion mode, however the brand new Audio Combine characteristic is supported.
As for the entrance digital camera, the iPhone 16 and 16e have an equivalent characteristic set aside from assist for Cinematic mode, Photographic Kinds, and Depth Management for Portrait photographs.