Purple Lens Flare Problem Occurs Because You’re Holding Your iPhone 5 Wrong, Apple Says

Cult of Mac
By Buster HeineOct 1, 2012, 12:26 pm303 pts
Last week a number of people noticed that the lens flare on their iPhone 5 is really purple. When you have an off-screen light source the iPhone 5′s lens turns the light into a purplish hue, rather than the bright white color the light would be when it’s on-screen. All lenses have lens flare, and sometimes…

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