Camera

The iPhone 12 Pro Max’s camera has new and unique features that no other smartphone camera has. Let’s take a look at what you get…

12MP Triple-Lens Camera

The 12-megapixel triple camera with a wide, ultra-wide and telephoto lens. The ultra-wide lens has ƒ/2.4 aperture and 120° field of view; the wide-angle lens has ƒ/2.6 aperture; and the telephoto lens has ƒ/2.0 aperture.

12MP TrueDepth Camera

This is a feature we can all be excited about. The iPhone 12 Pro Max selfie camera - also known as the TrueDepth camera - has 12 megapixels. The highest of any selfie camera in an iPhone! The selfie camera now also includes Night Mode, Deep Fusion and Portrait Mode with improved bokeh. The selfie camera also has 4K video with Dolby Vision up to 30 frames-per-second (fps).

Portrait Mode

This is where smartphones meet easy-to-use professional photography. When you shoot in Portrait Mode, your subject is made the focus, with the background blurred. This feature is also known as the “bokeh effect”. The popular Portrait Mode now offers six instead of five lighting options in the iPhone 12 Pro Max.

Portrait Lighting

Portrait Mode has some game-changing lighting options that could turn even the most amateur photographer into Kevin Carter (an award-winning South African photographer). Go from natural light to studio to stage to contour to high-key monochromatic. The six lighting options include Natural, Studio, Contour, Stage, Stage Mono, and High‑Key Light Mono.

Deep Fusion

This is the feature where computational photography comes alive! In the split seconds before and after you take a photo, the camera analyzes the various textures, colours and light variations of the photo and works to bring them to life. Notice how the texture of your clothes or hair or the sand on the beach in your pics looks more detailed!

Tone Mapping

Tone Mapping is smart. The camera analyses a photo and picks up the areas with a lot of colour, texture and light and highlights these features to improve your photo.

Night Mode

Apple worked really hard on improving your night shots using the iPhone 12 Pro Max, offering Night Mode on both lenses. The wide lens brings in 27 percent more light, making low-light and night time shots even clearer and more realistic.

Optical & Digital Zoom

he camera also gives you 2.5x optical zoom in and 2x optical zoom out which works the same way as a zoom lens on a traditional or DSLR camera. Optical zoom is much better than digital zoom at taking photos from far away as it does not degrade image quality. The model also includes a 7x digital zoom.

Video

The iPhone 12 Pro Max offers HDR video recording with Dolby vision - a feature no other iPhone has ever had! You can also shoot at 4K at 24, 25, 30 and 60 frames per second (fps). That’s pretty amazing! Optical image stabilisation is available in the wide lens and you can take 8-megapixel photo screenshots from 4K video.

Red-Eye Correction

Isn’t it annoying when you take a beautiful photo with the flash, only to find everyone has beady red eyes? You won’t have that problem with the improved red-eye correction feature.

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FAQs

Got any questions about the iPhone 12 Pro Max? We’ve got the answers for you!
The iPhone 12 Pro Max costs between R14,499 - R18,199 in South Africa.
From top to bottom, it is 16cm x 7.8cm x 0.74cm.
You can get it in Gold, Pacific Blue, Graphite and Silver.
The iPhone 12 ProMax is protected with Corning Gorilla Glass Victus, the strongest display protector in smartphones today. It also has a ceramic shield screen and unibody, giving your smartphone more strength than ever!
The iPhone 12 Pro Max is water-resistant. It has a rating of “IP68” which means it's fully protected from dust and can handle being underwater for up to 30 minutes at a depth of 6 meters. If your phone gets dropped in a puddle, or a shallow pool, or gets wet from the rain, it will be just fine.
Apple debuted the much-awaited A14 Bionic chip which acts as the new CPU and GPU (central and graphics processing unit) for the iPhone 12, 12 Mini, Pro and Pro Max. This chip takes high performance and low energy-expenditure to a new level! The A14 chip performs trillions of operations per second. Per second! The 64-bit chip has six cores, including two for high performance and four for energy efficiency. The A14 chip makes your phone’s graphics processing (GPU) 30% faster than the A12 chip and its general speed (CPU) 17% faster than the A13 chip.
You can get the iPhone 12 Pro Max with 128GB, 256GB and 512GB of space. For a better picture on how much 256GB is, it equates to an average amount of 73,224 photos.  For the 64GB model, that’s approximately 15,000 photos!
The phone comes with 6G of RAM.
It has a 12-megapixel triple-lens camera at the back and a 12-megapixel selfie camera at the front. The triple-lens camera means you get more range in your photos!
Yes, portrait mode is available on the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Portrait mode focuses on the subject of the photo and blurs the background, providing more depth.
Open your Camera app, then select ‘Portrait” on the right side. Your lighting options will appear on your screen such as Natural Light, Studio, Contour and Stage Light. After selecting your lighting, hold up your phone and focus on the person you’d like to photograph.
We would recommend that you invest in a case or cover for your iPhone 12 Pro Max. A good cover can protect your phone from cracked screens, from drops, dents, dirt, scratches and help keep it looking like new for when you’d like to sell it.
The iPhone 12 Pro Max has a battery of 2,815 mAh. Video playback up to 20 hours; streamed video playback up to 12 hours; and audio playback up to 80 hours.
The iPhone 12 ProMax weighs 226 grams.
Yes, the iPhone 12 Pro Max supports wireless charging via any Qi-certified wireless charger, and also supports fast wireless charging, which can charge your phone from 0% to 50% in around 30 minutes. To use fast wireless charging, you'll need a compatible fast wireless charger like the Apple MagSafe Charger, and a power adapter that supports at least 20W or higher.
The best wireless charger for the iPhone 12 Pro Max is the Apple MagSafe Charger, followed by the the Anker PowerWave Magnetic Pad, and then the Belkin BOOST↑CHARGE PRO MagSafe 2-in-1 Wireless Charger.
The Apple Leather Wallet with MagSafe, a slim, stylish cardholder that attaches to the back of the iPhone 12 Pro Max using MagSafe technology. It can hold up to three cards and is made from high-quality leather.
The Apple Leather Wallet with MagSafe, a slim, stylish cardholder that attaches to the back of the iPhone 12 Pro Max using MagSafe technology. It can hold up to three cards and is made from high-quality leather.
You can easily record a demonstration of something from your iPhone 12 Pro Max using the built-in screen recorder. Ensure your phone has iOS 16 installed Go to Settings and select Control Centre Tap "Customise Controls" and add "Screen Recording" Swipe down from the home screen to access Control Centre and tap the Screen Recording icon The recorder will count down from 3 before starting the recording Tap the red recording timer to stop the recording Find your recording in your camera roll to edit it or use the free iMovie app on your iPhone to edit it.