Outside:
To review the camera in the new iPhone 7 Plus, I chased Outside editors up rivers, down dusty singletrack, through the woods, and into classic New Mexican burrito joints. Over four days of in-the-field testing, I’ve found it to be the best small, lightweight camera you can get for the money, ideal for shooting outdoor adventures when you don’t want to lug around pounds of heavy equipment.
First came Sports Illustrated and then ESPN with their results of using the iPhone 7 Plus to shoot images. These from Outside magazine might be the ones most reflective of the kind of shots we “ordinary” folks might expect.
There seem to be a lot of caveats that go along with the recent spat of articles declaring how great the iPhone 7 Plus camera is. Yes, these are amazing photos given that they were taken with a small, lightweight phone camera that you always have with you. Yes, I’d happily take this camera improvement over my iPhone 6. But the Sports Illustrated photos, and most of these photos, don’t really impress me as great photos…they impress me as great photos given that were taken with a small, lightweight phone camera.