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MacRumors Readers Share Beautiful Depth-of-Field Photos Shot With iPhone 7 Plus
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Some look pretty good with blur graduated by distance. Some don't. Those that don't I think is due to not having enough background depth for the effect to not look planar. It will improve with time. Especially when Apple's LinX acquisition tech is fully employed (it's not now).
For me, I'd like the ability control the amount of graduated blur. And, to select the subject, which may not be in the foreground. Supposedly foreground (in front of the subject) blur occurs, but I haven't seen realistic representations yet. I'd like to be able to smudge my thumb over the subject area (like the woman in the photo below) and adjust the amount of blur. More is not necessarily better - starts looking fake...
All of this will come.
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I think I get what all these negative comments are trying to say..... If the iPhone can't be a DSLR, then Apple should just not even try. They should stop making improvements to the camera altogether. Someone write Tim and let him know to cancel all further camera development because as it turns out...this is just a phone and not a DSLR.
And then what do you do with the 3D image files? 3D glasses for viewing on a screen or print? Seems like that would quickly get old.
I like what they have now. Two different focal lengths to choose from, and a graduated DOF simulation mode (which will get better with time).
You people need to pull you're head out and stop talking as if "proper cameras" used to take perfect pictures since the beginning of time.
The iPhone 7 takes fantastic photos whether you people like it or not.
for me, it was just a fad. it wasn't as practical as having 2 lenses of different focal lengths with you. you wouldn't even be able to enjoy it on your phone unless you had the screen to support it. even then the experience isn't that great - the phone would have to be at just the right viewing angle and distance. and if this were only to be available on the Plus, then that leaves 7 users (including everyone else) out in the dark.
The Nintendo 3DS is very robust in terms of viewing position but the screen is too low-res. Sony is about to release its latest headset which I believe will do for 3D what PlayStation has done for optical media. And Apple also seems to be working on 3D too.
Yes, very much this. With the story of the iPhone 7 camera review this morning, I went and looked at the scores for the previous iPhones, and they've gone from 50 for the iPhone 4 (on the review site's scale) up to 86 now. The decent camera in your pocket is better than the DSLR that's sitting at home, because it's actually with you, and you can take lots of pictures with it at a moment's notice, and I'm thrilled to see the progress that Apple has made with the camera in a phone over these last few years.
This is incorrect, it's about the out of focus area of the picture that is blurred. Different cameras create a different visual bokeh, while some cameras and lens produces that blooming effect bokeh, others don't.
This obviously is going to make this a must have item this holiday season.
The camera is THE item people look for and use statistically in phones. Apple did the SMART thing here putting it into its higher priced product that will likely drive their ASP's up quite nicely. Those of you "experts" don't see the "logic" behind this feature.
It's called strategy - simply put. And it's brilliant to buy themselves a year for the fully retooled iPhones.
The camera is THE item people look for and use statistically in phones. Apple did the SMART thing here putting it into its higher priced product that will likely drive their ASP's up quite nicely. Those of you "experts" don't see the "logic" behind this feature.
It's called strategy - simply put. And it's brilliant to buy themselves a year for the fully retooled iPhones.
It's a combination of hardware and software, very impressive actually.
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Then you don't know the meaning of the word, stop trying to change what the word means.
I keep trying to like this feature but it just doesn't look right. I'm sure they'll get the implementation down eventually...
I'm used to shooting stuff with long telephotos that totally nuke the background (and foreground for that matter). I wonder if they'll allow for some control over the blur?
It is still exciting to see this kind of technology in phones. Imagine all the cool things we'll be able to do with it in a few years!
I'm used to shooting stuff with long telephotos that totally nuke the background (and foreground for that matter). I wonder if they'll allow for some control over the blur?
It is still exciting to see this kind of technology in phones. Imagine all the cool things we'll be able to do with it in a few years!
What's your point exactly?
1) For the vast majority of people, phone cameras provide perfectly good quality. Why do you presume to say they "need" something better? And do you likewise ridicule people with dedicated cameras that are "just" point-and-shoot, and not DSLR?
2) Even people with the absolute best camera still use phone cameras from time to time. The best camera is the one you have with you, as the saying goes. Almost no-one can carry a DSLR with them 24/7. So you think its stupid for even those people with pro cameras to like seeing improvement in phone camera quality?
3) You probably have many photos that were not taken by yourself. That were taken by family or friends. I suppose that you don't care that if these people don't own and carry expensive DSLR cameras, the cameras they DO carry with them, their phone, take better photos?
What a revelation: a single purpose device with 20 times more mass takes better photos than a device that fits in your pocket and does thousands of different tasks.
It's not just good for a phone. It's good. You picked one of the photos that had bad artifacts. Bravo. It's still in beta. But the shot of the kid in the pool is great, as are many of the others I've seen. The way this will up the ante for day to day photography can't be overstated. Can't wait to see the new Shot on iPhone ads.
Depth of field? My god, welcome to 1884....
Seriously, this is why people still need real cameras with manual controls. That's nice that a phone can act like a camera in a pinch, but there are nice pocket sized digital cameras that have so much more control and without having to fiddle with touch-screens (real dials are so much nicer for making quick setting changes, even while looking through the lens).
Great, and in a forum devoted to CAMERAS or PHOTOGRAPHY, they can compare and contrast CAMERAS. Meanwhile, here in a forum devoted to PHONES, well...
Where's the optical zoom? This is the first thing consumers would look at in a point and shoot.
[Mostly the wrong way, focusing at the long end without paying attention to wide angle or aperture.]