Can somebody explain why a lens with f1.8 is not able to provide the depth of field effect on itself?
Because it's a tiny lens with a very very short focal length. Short focal lens tend to make everything in focus, regardless of aperture.
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#192Can somebody explain why a lens with f1.8 is not able to provide the depth of field effect on itself?
It's a combination of wide-angle focal length and small sensor size. It is still possible to get a natural depth of field effect by getting very close to the subject, and that effect should be more pronounced with the 56mm equivalent telephoto lens.
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#193I still can't get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more conve…
I never got to the point you are at because I could never get over the USB jack. It took 30 fucking years and a lot of blood sweat and tears but finally finally there is a global, universal, cheap and simple charging standard that just works. You can find a USB port anywhere and there are extra cables everywhere and life is just slightly better all around. Except for Apple.
Well, mini USB, then micro USB, then USB-C, then...
I have to change my cables every 5 years, not exactly "a" global standard.
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#194I still can't get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more conve…
To me, the biggest problem with this move is that you can't charge the device and listen to music with corded headphones at the same time. Unless there is some option I am unaware of. In any case, I just decided to replace my iPhone 5 with an iPhone 6s, which I should be able to find on sale.
Given that you get a lightning to audio jack converter right in the box it's pretty much the only significant objection IMHO. Converter cables aren't ideal, but hardly a ragequit issue. I wonder if third party charge/jack splitter cables are possible?
Re: iPhone 7
#195The biggest drawback, maybe the only drawback of this new iPhone, is that you can't use the EarPods while charging.
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Re: iPhone 7
#196I still can't get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more conve…
PS/2 keyboards weren't on the way out. Apple led the way and pushed USB for a few years before it caught on.
But the lightening port is a closed standard, as opposed to USB. It would have made much more sense here if Apple had used USB-C instead of lightening.
Re: iPhone 7
#197I still can't get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more conve…
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#198So it's water resistant but not water proof... It has 2 cameras like other Android phones had years ago. Basically same everything but with a Mario app and no headphone jack? Do you think Steve Jobs would have approved of this to hit retail?
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#199I still can't get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more conve…
I never got to the point you are at because I could never get over the USB jack. It took 30 fucking years and a lot of blood sweat and tears but finally finally there is a global, universal, cheap and simple charging standard that just works. You can find a USB port anywhere and there are extra cables everywhere and life is just slightly better all around. Except for Apple.
Apple - Be exceptional. Or the exception. Whatever, just pay us :D
Re: iPhone 7
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
USB is a good counterexample, though. They started pushing USB for all peripherals before anybody else, and before there was a good market for peripherals that supported it. The market emerged soon thereafter, though, and other companies were ditching their parallel ports, etc., within a year or two.
Except USB was a standard. Lightning isn't and it doesn't appear that the W1 chip is either.
Right, I'm not defending this decision, specifically. Just offering a counterpoint to the parent's:
> the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move
This was not the case when Apple pushed hard on USB as compared to other peripheral standards with the iMac in the late '90s.