Art Hopping with the iPhone 16 Pro Max – my summer culture buddy

The camera’s shining features:

While the iPhone 16 Pro camera loves the outdoor natural light, it holds up pretty well in indoor lighting settings – in both lower or nighttime conditions as well as brighter indoor areas. We captured vibrant, crisp, and clear shots of the artwork from the basement of Zeitz Mocaa to the open-air studios of Clay Café, to the nighttime gallery crawl of First Thursdays in the Cape Town CBD.

Crisp stills, and cinematic shots

Capturing memorable still imagery with the 48MP Ultra Wide camera lens is a swift experience. The lens set-up offers crisp high-quality shots – capturing a lot of detail in the artwork you're photographing no matter the lighting setting. This is courtesy of the advanced quad-pixel sensor with autofocus in the new iPhone 16 Pro camera set-up.

And, if you feel your images don’t fit the artsy vibe you want, the iPhone 16 Pro allows you to edit the look and feel before or after you snap your pic. You can choose a camera filter option before you shoot or edit the style colour and tones in your image through the Photos editor to best fit the mood you want to portray. This way, you can share the best shots of your memories that also match your artsy aesthetic.

The camera control button, conveniently located on the right side of the device, makes it easy to quickly access the camera to snap a pic of an art piece or performance in passing – which is ideal for summertime street art.

The camera's video settings allow for a powerful tool for artists or content creators to capture the works, especially as the Cinematic mode allows iPhone users to artfully play around with focus and shift it from the art in the foreground to the background and back again seamlessly.

The standard HDR mode also allows for a gentle Bokeh on close-up shots and still captures a lot of colour and vibrancy of the art pieces even in the darker indoor settings. This improves even more when taking full advantage of the device’s 4K video resolution with 120 fps Dolby Vision.

If you find yourself at a summer concert or an artful performance with your family or mates this summer, you can take advantage of the device’s ability to film footage that allows you to choose the audio mix setting post-recording. This enables you to get the best sound outcome from the performance you're watching.

When propped up and with the focus locked – the Cinematic video setting allows you to easily film the process of creating your own art or craft pieces. This is great for those wanting to film a solo or shared art project activity to share with their followers or family this festive period.