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iPhone Macro: A Big Day for Small Things

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Re: iPhone Macro: A Big Day for Small Things

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"You have a 4mm lens at f/2. To get the same depth of field you'd need a 50mm lens at f/25, not f/512." Humorously years back I had authored a giant depth of field essay with online calculators specifically because so many people just couldn't understand why their iPhone couldn't get bokeh. Yes, f/512 would be the impossible equivalent. This is easily calculated. Regardless, the lens Apple uses for macro mode has a 1…

That's just not how lenses work, fundamentally. Bokeh is determined by two things, and two things only - the diameter of the aperture and the distance to the object. That's it. Also yes, the wide angle of the iPhone 13 is much smaller. Just stop down even further then. Cheap macro lenses in 2021 are typically around 24mm. I'm talking about the Mitakons and the Laowas of the world. Focus stacking is needed when you're…

If you are going to try to get persnickety, that's not "bokeh" at all. It's depth of field.

Bokeh is the quality of rendering of out-of-focus highlights.

Re: iPhone Macro: A Big Day for Small Things

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No, the difference between a large-format 8″×10″-negative view camera + dye transfer printing process vs. a cute little digital DSLR is night and day. It’s just ridiculous to read articles about DLSRs with their ugly photos where authors are writing something like “wow it’s amazing – best camera ever, you don’t need a pro camera anymore”. It’s so funny.

I agree with everything except the first word - you are not denying my words ;)

He doesn't have to -- he's making the point that many professional photographers swear by full-frame DSLRs, but there are people who would treat that with the exact same dismissal that you applied towards iPhone photos.

The implication is that it's no more "ridiculous" to read articles about professional photographers using iPhones for their rarely-used macro shots than it is to read comments from people who find the idea of using phone cameras for this purpose laughable.

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