I don't know, Austin Mann took some amazing photos in his previous camera reviews, but this time I'm not so impressed. The saturation in the fall tree and water shots is just somehow weirdly off the charts and the night photos look almost like impressionist paintings (nonetheless a great achievement with such a small sensor).
His photos from Rwanda with the iPhone 7 just looked so much more natural and "real" [1].
I think apple is compensating because people tend to like saturated colors. Though the iPhones still do poorly in head to head blind reviews. The camera gear is top notch but its the "auto processing" and cool color space choices makes it less likable head to head.
Yeah a lot of those images had very flat color/saturation. The composition was good but they definitely looked like they were taken on a phone camera. Overall just very "flat", no pop. There are some points where you can see the sky clips the image out and that scenario stresses a lot of cameras' sensors if not properly mitigated.
I would not be happy if these pictures were hanging on my wall.
His photos from Rwanda with the iPhone 7 just looked so much more natural and "real" [1].
[1] http://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-7-camera-review-rwanda