So, the weekend had been spent taking the 5S through its paces and the main focus was on the camera. How much if an impact it was?
The quality of the 4 compared to 3GS was huge. And the jump was maintained when the 4S was released. I had been happy with the 4S until I got my hands on the HTC One and as a camera phone, the One was not short of awesome. But it remained what it was. A mobile phone with a camera. It's nowhere near my X-Pro 1.
So, in came the 5S. Does the camera present a big jump compared to its predecessor? Bear in mind that I jumped from the 4S, the quality increase was expected. I do not have a iPhone 5 to compare it to, so I did the next best thing. Comparing it to the HTC One. But I would leave that to the next entry.
Let's just look at the camera on its entirety. The snaps were good. And coupled that to the Camera+ app, the photos were really good. The focusing speed was faster and they tend to find the right focus points as well.
But I found that the snaps tended to be underexposed and cooler temperature-wise. Nothing that Camera+ couldn't fix.
Is it spontaneous enough? Unfortunately I did not. I found that snapping photos were fiddly for some reason. Compares to the HTC One, the photos tended to be warner and brighter. Maybe it was just the screen, but the same was seen on the computer monitors as well. I tended to like the HTC One snaps better, and tended to get the photos I wanted first time.
Maybe it was an unfair criticism for the new iPhone since I only had it for one weekend. I understood the HTC One's quirks better having used it since May. I might change my mind in a couple of months.
I will post up comparison photos between the HTC One and the iPhone 5S on my next entries.
Ed - the comparisons are here in not one, two, three or four, but five instalments!
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 8:32PM 
iPhone 5S - 1/30s f2.2 ISO 125
HTC One - 1/33s f2.0 ISO 160As you can appreciate, the snap from HTC One - the bottom - seemed to be more exposed compared to the top. It also appeared to retain less of the highlights compared to the iPhone. In terms of aesthetics, the photos would be open to personal interpretation. In this snap, I prefered the iPhone since the snp appeared to be richer in terms of colour gamut. The HTC snap also appeared more yellow, although I think it was more of the eposure issue.