Dozens of iPhone 5 users complain about a camera problem

Apple decided to keep the 8 megapixels in the iPhone 5 camera, but in the phone's presentation keynote it assured that «the lenses had been improved«. Now dozens of users are complaining about a problem related to the cameras of their iPhones 5. Apparently, when we point the camera towards a powerful light source, in the photo we get a purple flash, something that does not happen with the iPhone 4s or with other professional cameras.

In the image that heads this article we see the problem reflected. This is a test carried out by the Mashable web. It is not known exactly whether this purple glitter It is a software problem or the camera itself. It seems that it only happens when within the plane we capture the sun or another powerful light source.

At the moment Apple has not commented on the matter, despite the fact that the problem is already a latent issue in the community of iPhone 5 users.


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  1.   St John Michael said

    It could be an effect of the sapphire crystal

    1.    ranger_822 said

      Man, if the 5 million phones sold have complained TENS of users ………. It seems to me that the figures do not even reach the percentage of error assumed in any product (whether telephones or cars).
      Come on, you have to be delicate! That they are going to change the phone and ready man, it seems that anything is news as long as it criticizes. Whoever does not like it not to buy it, there are many other offers on the market and nobody forces anyone ...

      regards

      1.    fdgmoiusa said

        Accuse him with your mom Quiko!

  2.   Juan said

    What a telephone disaster. Go for the Lumia 920.

  3.   carlos_trejo said

    and they say to call it the best smartphone? xD pure failures since it came out

  4.   Miguel said

    God ... what a disaster ,, screen that turns off and turns on by itself (search the internet)

    iOS failure in horrible battery consumption "I give FAITH" 
    maps to nothing at the height of iOS!
    Aluminum back with very little resistance to wear and tear and scratches.
    I forget any more failure?
    and wanted to change my 4S? I even wanted to sell my iPad 2 to buy it ,,, every day that passes less I like everything that has happened since the iPhone 5 ... from the continuous design and everything as it is being done.
    I'll wait for the iPhone 6 design
    that you enjoy those who have the 5 ,,,, and why not say ,, luck!

    1.    altergeek said

      The battery is fine, not perfect, but it is fine in my 4S with iOS6, we will have to see how it works in the 5

    2.    thechicstyle said

      Apple will continue with the same continuous design, things will change, but they said so themselves, the iPhone is an icon, just like the Macbook Pro that do not change much ...
      On the other hand, the issue of rallones have confirmed that they go away just by swiping your finger ...

  5.   Juan said

    I am anti-android and anti-samsung, but I have not heard these incredible glitches on the galaxy s 3. On the contrary, all are praise. I think that with this I definitely move to the competition. We all expected Apple without Jobs to go under; what nobody imagined is that it would happen is only 11 months.

    1.    Pedro said

      The failure to obtain all the system data by NFC in the s3 does not sound like you? A little objectivity ...

    2.    thechicstyle said

      Pedro is right, a security failure like that of the S3 is VERY strong that it occurs in high-end terminals…. 
      In addition, you only have to see the price of the S3 for example to see that it is all plastic or for example look at the tests between the iPhone 5 and the S3, the latter breaks with nothing ...
      Pay 600e for it to break for falling from a medium height for example ...
      Not to mention that in Apple they change it to you at the moment without any problem for a completely new one ...
      In addition, Apple has sold 3 million iPhone 5s in 5 days… it is normal that they are defective, it is MY normal.

  6.   altergeek said

    tech junk? come on, keep buying and keep getting problems, it's good after all that I'm late to my market; D

  7.   thechicstyle said

    This is not entirely true. The first 4s I had I did have that purple flash when I took the photos and from what it seems, not many came out. 
    But I took it to the Apple Store and they changed it immediately without any problem.
    I think people are looking for all kinds of flaws on this iPhone. How many millions of iPhone 5 have been sold until today? Surely more than 7 million or so…. it's normal for bad games to come out ...

  8.   astroluzz said

    Man, compare it with a camera from another cell phone, or even from its predecessor, but it has nothing to do with a professional SLR camera, that's superfluous. Be careful, I do not justify the failure of the iPhone 5 camera, but you cannot compare a mobile camera with a professional reflex camera that costs more than € 1200, even if it is only for comparison to show that it is not normal (we all know that that purple spot is not normal).

  9.   culvl said

    It really seems to some that Apple pays you very well indeed. A phone with a 100% filtered design 2 months before its launch, which is also difficult to distinguish from the previous design, two years old and also needs a cover to avoid scratching or breaking, so the design is useless not at all, because you can't see it. Some maps that are useless and that are much worse than those of its predecessor. Everyone to buy adapters, which would be very "chic" in the devices with speakers, chargers, etc. that we already had and that cost a lot. They continue to skip the European law on universal charger and warranty. And they still do not implement the phone with a microsd reader to expand memory. It also seems that they take it out without testing the least because of the camera, maps, battery. These are not security flaws, they are flaws of a terrible production and a bad design that affect us all and in spite of this you do nothing but defend apple. You will not look at Samsung so much, that there are phones like the new Nokia Lumia that as soon as Apple neglects they will be eaten from the silence. And we don't even talk about iOS 6, panoramic photos? is that all that improves to iOS 5? Fuck, how cool.

    1.    nomerayes said

      And who pays you ...? you have an Iphone? Have you ever used them for more than a while? I don't know the iPhone 5, but if the 4s and it's LA OSTIA, a CUCUMBER and Nokia is light years away ...

      1.    culvl said

        Nobody pays me. I have an iphone 4 and an ipad 2. I also have a lot more education than you and can write without spelling mistakes. Your lack of argumentation is worthy of someone who, if Apple told him to jump from a sixth floor, would jump to show that an iPhone inside a pocket can withstand such a fall. Nokia has been reborn and they are quietly creating a great phone, with an operating system that even the vice president of apple has praised, a design that is a matter of taste but that is innovative (not like the super iPhone 5) and a lot of future. You continue to be fascinated with your iphone (if you have them clear) and download an application to learn to write that there are and very good ones. To improve education, not even apple can come up with a product that helps you do that.

        1.    dakzz said

           Amen brother!!! Louder, but not clearer!

          1.    culvl said

            It is what there is Dakzz, I am sick of that there are so many Zombies-apple that do not see beyond the apple.
            Thank you.

        2.    iPadUser said

          Deep down you're crazy for catching an iPhone 5 but you can't hahaha

        3.    Rafa de haro said

          as they say, ole your eggs

      2.    Erick arias said

        it is clear that those who criticize apple have no bloody idea what they are talking about because they have not had it in their lives. Iphone is REOSTIA. and if it has had failures in some terminals, the percentage is insignificant considering that 5,5 million have already been sold in a week.
        Nokia, samsung, sony? aahahahaaj I laughed SIII blurred panoramas, and don't see how innovative it is to be able to continue watching a video while sending an SMS (total uselessness) ... much bigger screen but the same resolution as before, that is, it is worthless ...
        IPhone critics ... first buy one and learn how to use it and then speak what you want.

    2.    jose said

      you forgot… that Apple is so cool and so innovative, that it is not capable of incorporating Radio as standard !!! hahaha ... ohhh not that the radio is not worth anything now, no friends?

      How many years have passed and even without having a hole to put a physical radio receiver? BUAJ !!

  10.   Tonivn said

    Of course put in comparison to a Nikon D300 ... I do not understand. What's more, the camera does not matter absolutely, that purple color is called chromatic aberration that many OBJECTIVES, yes, objectives, it happens to them and it is solved with post-processing (that if, not as much as in this example). With this I mean, that it is very possible that in the case of the iPhone 5, it is a problem with the lenses (that light reflection that is also seen a little lower if it makes me think that the lenses are placed differently) isolated ? It may be, so maybe it happens only in a terminal as someone here said that it happened with his 4s and Apple changed it.
    But please take that D300 out of the comparison, it hurts to look at.
    regards

  11.   Brother86 said

    Are you AREGLADOS, do you really think that for Apple ???? then why do you have an iPhone because you don't catch a nokia or a samsum, if you don't like it, don't buy it and stop giving by KULOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AND APPLE DOES NOT PAY ME, just It is the ostia that you criticize and then have an iPhone

  12.   xOne said

    I'm going to buy a Trash! That zas in all the mouth I have taken…. Raise your head Jobs, apple needs you !!

  13.   Rafa de haro said

    shameful

  14.   Victor said

    Hello, I am not a fanboy or a fanandroid, I sold my iphone 4s, I bought the galaxy s3 and I am never comfortable with my phone, I feel that suddenly it will not work some button feels good the system everything slows down the scrooll is Very slow when going up and down pages, what I am going to is that, android is how microsoft makes software and it does not work at 100 in the terminals because they are not exactly for a single terminal they are for thousands of android, now I sold the galaxy s3 and I bought the iphone 5 the photos are much better everything, the phone feels comfortable, without failures, look at something very true in the galaxy s3 go to the simple phone application to make a call check how long it takes to enter and then go to the phone to the tab; to contacts so that they can continue to see how long it takes to get there, it is slow, very slow, on the iPhone everything is functionally perfect, it is what Apple is dedicated to because everything it does it does well, nobody does any phone to video calls until which apple had to make it functional or not? There were already phones with cameras in front but none could make a video call, the iphone 5 camera I understand that it comes out purple but it is an effect of ultraviolet rays that comes out on any iphone if you see the photos the angles are not the same check The tree, do not create everything from gizmodo please but well I know that ios is missing many things but everything it has has one hundred percent functional and without failures, android innovates a lot but everything works slow and with failures, greetings

  15.   bianna said

    It does not work I have had two and for no reason they turned off and did not turn on EVER AGAIN, and they have never given me a reason why.