It’s funny how cell phones have turned everybody into a highly opinionated professional photographer when 10 years ago they were all using disposable cameras without complaint.
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Apple's iOS 10.1 Beta Includes Promised Portrait Mode for iPhone 7 Plus Users
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Quick shot, indoors with so/so office lighting.
http://imgur.com/ruhC1ez
Seems to work ok on starbucks cups!
http://imgur.com/ruhC1ez
Seems to work ok on starbucks cups!
Great how it still gets many of her stray hairs in focus. That's what brings a pic to life for me in high end cameras.
I would still like bokeh hearts, custom shapes applied "like" a high end camera.
Just amazed how decent our pocket phones are getting to be.
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I love this beta!....who am I kidding? Where's the new macbook pro?!
Is freaking hard to read anything on MacRumors nowdays without macbook pro being mentioned. And I am waiting for one.
A99ii is so passé. GFX ftw.
SURE!... I'll give you that. The 50S will be $6-8K (or whatever "will be well under $10K" means), you can get an A99II for half that... but power to you
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Yep.
That's why I was somewhat disappointed when they mentioned the two different focal lengths in the keynote.
I'd honestly rather have two cameras of the same focal length doing their special mojo to make one great image.
But then there are other people who want the 2X zoom.
Apple went with the latter. I can't fault Apple for that though... it's still a compelling feature.
You seem to have a solid grasp on the mechanics of portrait mode. Please enlighten us.Were you actually expecting to get optical bokeh from lenses and sensors the size of your pinky nail?
This was always gonna be a digital effect applied in post.
The iPhone may do a billion calculations when you press the shutter... but this is still a special effect.
I was honestly hoping that you could use image data from both cameras combined to make one good picture... not this faux-blurred-Photoshop effect.
I am inside my office so its very dark so this is not the best photo... but this is not a human and it was able to apply the depth.
There's nothing "mechanical" about it. That's the problem.
It's a digital blur EFFECT added to the image.
Even though the two cameras are measuring the depth... the resulting blur is completely manufactured.
It looks pleasing... but it's FAKE
Yes -- check out the two dogs in the Tech Crunch piece. That one was particularly impressive because the dogs weren't the same distance from the phone, yet the software recognized that they both were foreground objects. Based on these early indications, Apple may have hit this one out of the park.
Can you do another example of the same scene with and without the blur effect?
I'd love to see the comparison.
Live Preview, wow, check out this, Apple:
EDIT: The video shows a refocusing of an image shot on a dual camera Huawei phone. Some people below claim it's a "live focus preview" which iPhones already can do or it's some "software trickery" which 3rd party apps were able to do forever vs revolutionary Apple's optical invention. It's not a preview nor trickery. Huawei P9 has a dual camera setup like an iPhone 7 Plus. Basically Huawei uses the same technique as Apple and achieves more than just a blurred background.
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They're talking about live preview of the BLUR EFFECT.
You just showed focus preview.
iPhones are already able to preview focus. I just did it on my iPhone 6S Plus.
So no... Huawei didn't "do it first"
As long as it looks good, who cares?There's nothing "mechanical" about it. That's the problem.
It's a digital blur EFFECT added to the image.
Even though the two cameras are measuring the depth... the resulting blur is completely manufactured.
It looks pleasing... but it's FAKE
Focus preview of what? The phone is LYING ON THE TABLE. Huawei can refocus image after it was shot using the same dual camera setup.They're talking about live preview of the BLUR EFFECT.
You just showed focus preview.
iPhones are already able to preview focus. I just did it on my iPhone 6S Plus.
So no... Huawei didn't "do it first"
So yes, it did it first and did much more than a blurred background.
Except that Huawei is using just trickery like many third party apps, just an elaborate blur effect, they don't have two lenses at different focal distances.
Apple's effect is optic.