unfortunately only the 7 plus mega phone has this. Hopefully it gets passed down to the regular 7 size at some point in the future.
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Hands-On With the New 'Portrait' Mode Beta Feature in the iPhone 7 Plus
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A lot of the DSLRs and mirrorless cameras can do that. Either they have DoF preview button or show that real time in live view finder.
All my Canon DSLRs can preview depth-of-field. Doesn't matter if you are using a mirror viewfinder or digital-only screen. However -- most lenses are "wide-open" to facilitate a bright view and make critical focusing easier. There is usually a button on the lens or camera body that forces the lens to "stop down" to its actually selected F-stop -- this feature allows you to "preview" the ACTUAL depth-of-field based on the lens focal length and F-stop.
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All mirrorless cameras do this by simply showing you what the sensor sees on the screen/view finder.
The effect doesn't look real to me. It looks like (good) photoshopping.
The issue is lack of transition between the in focus object and everything else. Bokeh from a DSLR (or your eyes) will have areas that are almost in focus transitioning to completely out of focus. Apple's does not.
The issue is lack of transition between the in focus object and everything else. Bokeh from a DSLR (or your eyes) will have areas that are almost in focus transitioning to completely out of focus. Apple's does not.
It's pretty astonishing if you think about it.
Only 10 years ago the average consumer was carrying around a point and shoot camera which was all the rage, we're now carrying around a phone that mimics DOF and has greater resolution and better features than many point and shoot 10 years ago.
Yet...people still have something to gripe about!
Only 10 years ago the average consumer was carrying around a point and shoot camera which was all the rage, we're now carrying around a phone that mimics DOF and has greater resolution and better features than many point and shoot 10 years ago.
Yet...people still have something to gripe about!
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What confuses the author is that cameras keep the aperture in the full open position normally so that the viewfinder image is nice and bright, and on mirrorless models so that the preview image is fluid. You have to push a button or select a menu option to turn on DOF Preview.
Also the button on DSLRs is always tiny, stuck out of the way and invariably unmarked.
You must know little about photography. It's fairly average at best. Good for a quick snap though.
It doesn't always get it right, but it does have gradation. Check out the chair compared to the laptop compared to outside the window:
That's pretty damn good..
Think this is the start of something with smart phones in general. Make users use their DLSR's less by incorporating these unique features. Not replace, but help.
Think this is the start of something with smart phones in general. Make users use their DLSR's less by incorporating these unique features. Not replace, but help.
HUH? Thats the point of a DSLR you get a real through the lens viewfinder or live view. You most certainly do get the aperture you are set to. For example if you have a 50mm 1.4 the depth of field is super narrow and you get what you see. I think you might be confusing step down, if you have the 50mm set to f11 you're still going to get f1.4 in the viewfinder unless you depress the aperture preview button, however the image will darken or gets noisier through live view.
The effect on the iPhone is impressive compared to many other attempts but is never going to render hair and fur properly no matter what they try to do. It's pretty obvious in all images, it won't fool anyone but it's close enough to use as an effect like tilt shift is.
You can see the smudging effect near the edges if you zoom. But it still looks great.
There are a lot of asterisks on this. For once, the optical viewfinder of DSLRs normally shows a view with the lens wide-open and you have to press (and usually hold down) a button to get an accurate DOF preview if the picture is not taken with the aperture wide-open. But then the focussing screens on DSLRs don't show the shallow DOF of lenses wider than f/2.8 (this is a property of the focussing screen and there is some choice, mostly via third-parties, to choose a different focussing screen to get a better DOF preview of faster lenses). Live View and thus any mirrorless camera does not have this problem but they often also use the lens wide-open during focussing and framing though that varies from camera to camera and often this can be changed by the user.
No need to belittle someone else's perception - beauty is in the eye of the beholder after all.
Most people know what a portrait is, very, very few people (among the general iPhone user base) know what Bokeh is. And the vast majority of people also know that the word 'portrait' can be used to describe the orientation of a non-square rectangle as well as images of (usually) single persons.
DSLR's and great lenses will always have a place on my shelf however this development is another (final?) nail in the coffin of the point-and-shoot market?
Do Canon and Nikon watch these developments and just think 'crap we need to release another heavy full frame $3000 DSLR'?
Do Canon and Nikon watch these developments and just think 'crap we need to release another heavy full frame $3000 DSLR'?
Whoops, time for you to enroll in photography 101!
I need to see more tests, especially from photographers. Curious about about how it renders distant point sources of light, as I mentioned in post #178 in the previous thread.
Not expecting the same rendering as from my dslr and wide aperture lens on distant points source lights, but would like to see how close it can come.
Not expecting the same rendering as from my dslr and wide aperture lens on distant points source lights, but would like to see how close it can come.
Ah...funny...because that would mean you're gay and no one would want that, right?
The size problem is easily solved by avoiding skinny jeans.