{"id":260144,"date":"2026-05-31T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/i-shot-these-lightning-storm-photos-on-my-iphone-13-mini-proving-that-the-best-camera-really-is-the-one-you-have-with-you\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:55:12","slug":"i-shot-these-lightning-storm-photos-on-my-iphone-13-mini-proving-that-the-best-camera-really-is-the-one-you-have-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/i-shot-these-lightning-storm-photos-on-my-iphone-13-mini-proving-that-the-best-camera-really-is-the-one-you-have-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I shot these lightning storm photos on my iPhone 13 Mini \u2013proving that the best camera really is the one you have with you"},"content":{"rendered":"

I shot these lightning storm photos on my iPhone 13 Mini \u2013proving that the best camera really is the one you have with you<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/cameras\/articles\/shot-lightning-storm-photos-iphone-061500098.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-31 02:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: tech.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Credit: James Artaius<\/p>\n

“[Equipment] doesn\u2019t matter at all. People say what\u2019s the best camera, I always say the one in my pocket or the one round my neck. It\u2019s not the camera that takes the picture, it\u2019s the person.”<\/p>\n

Those were the words of David Bailey, speaking in a radio interview over a decade ago. It’s a spin on the well-worn photography clich\u00e9, ‘the best camera is the one you have with you’ \u2013 but clich\u00e9s exist for a reason.<\/p>\n

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Case in point, the photographs on this page. I want to make clear, first of all, that I’m not saying these are works of art. They’re not. But photographing lightning strikes can be tricky \u2013 and the point I’m making is that I wouldn’t have been able to take these pictures if I didn’t have my iPhone in my pocket.<\/p>\n

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Credit: James Artaius<\/p>\n

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Credit: James Artaius<\/p>\n

My iPhone 13 Mini, at that \u2013 a phone that’s 5 years old at this point, with an ultra-wide camera that only has a tiny 1\/3.4-inch sensor and a measly 12MP resolution.<\/p>\n

Could I have taken better pictures with my Canon EOS R5 or Hasselblad X2D II? Absolutely. And I could have taken the best pictures of all with my OM System OM-3, which has a Live Composite feature that is perfect for photographing lightning strikes.<\/p>\n

But I didn’t have those cameras with me when I was driving home through this storm. (Okay, the OM-3 was in the trunk. But I’ll be honest; pulling into a layby surrounded by trees, while the gods hurled thunderbolts that lit up the entire sky, getting out of the car wasn’t my top priority.)<\/p>\n

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Credit: James Artaius<\/p>\n

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Credit: James Artaius<\/p>\n

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So I pulled the phone out of my pocket and spammed that little white button until I got my shots. Low resolution. Crappy quality. Fully automatic. But I got the shots \u2013 and under the circumstances, I wouldn’t have got them any other way.<\/p>\n

As if there was any doubt, Bailey was right: the best…<\/p>\n

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