Hey, all,
Time for me to have my usual debate about whether to get a regular 17 or a 17 Pro, and I have a photography question independent of iPhones, though I will bring it back to iPhones.
The debate always goes something like this: do I want to spend $300 JUST to get a telephoto lens. I know the Pro has a lot more than that that it does better than a base model will do. But really: I'm not a professional. I'm not a videographer. I don't even shoot in RAW. I just like the creative activity of telling a story through framing, through composition. And if a subject is moderately far way my 13 mini is not up to it. It may be that once I have all those tools that I opt to learn how to use them. But for the sake of this post, let's assume I don't, and that all I'm using is the telephoto.
So here's the photography question. I mean, I think I know the answer, but I'm looking for confirmation from people who really know photography, and that's you guys.
When I have my DSLR, and I take a photo of a subject (person, thing, whatever) with a background, using, say, a 50mm lens; and then I switch to a telephoto or zoom lens at 2x magnification, and I move to twice as far away, and I take the same photo with the same framing....I am not only bringing the subject forward but the background. That those are not the same photo, they won't look the same, the background will appear closer. That waterfall back there behind my subject will fill more of the frame, even though the subject looks the same.
Question (1): Am I remembering that correctly? Is that how the optics work?
Now with, say, the "optical quality" 2x zoom on a base iPhone 17, I am NOT getting that. Because besides whatever digital magic Apple is adding to the process, it's still a 1x photo that has been cropped. But if I have a Pro, and I'm shooting at 4x, then I DO get the benefit of those optics, and the background DOES come forward.
Question (2): Does that really happen? Anyone that has shot with any Pro iPhone with a telephoto lens, and compared to the same photo with the regular wide angle or better yet a base iPhone, is that happening?
Thanks very much for your expertise!
Time for me to have my usual debate about whether to get a regular 17 or a 17 Pro, and I have a photography question independent of iPhones, though I will bring it back to iPhones.
The debate always goes something like this: do I want to spend $300 JUST to get a telephoto lens. I know the Pro has a lot more than that that it does better than a base model will do. But really: I'm not a professional. I'm not a videographer. I don't even shoot in RAW. I just like the creative activity of telling a story through framing, through composition. And if a subject is moderately far way my 13 mini is not up to it. It may be that once I have all those tools that I opt to learn how to use them. But for the sake of this post, let's assume I don't, and that all I'm using is the telephoto.
So here's the photography question. I mean, I think I know the answer, but I'm looking for confirmation from people who really know photography, and that's you guys.
When I have my DSLR, and I take a photo of a subject (person, thing, whatever) with a background, using, say, a 50mm lens; and then I switch to a telephoto or zoom lens at 2x magnification, and I move to twice as far away, and I take the same photo with the same framing....I am not only bringing the subject forward but the background. That those are not the same photo, they won't look the same, the background will appear closer. That waterfall back there behind my subject will fill more of the frame, even though the subject looks the same.
Question (1): Am I remembering that correctly? Is that how the optics work?
Now with, say, the "optical quality" 2x zoom on a base iPhone 17, I am NOT getting that. Because besides whatever digital magic Apple is adding to the process, it's still a 1x photo that has been cropped. But if I have a Pro, and I'm shooting at 4x, then I DO get the benefit of those optics, and the background DOES come forward.
Question (2): Does that really happen? Anyone that has shot with any Pro iPhone with a telephoto lens, and compared to the same photo with the regular wide angle or better yet a base iPhone, is that happening?
Thanks very much for your expertise!