Apple’s dual camera phone will change photography as we know it
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Re: Apple’s dual camera phone will change photography as we know it
#2Because the two cameras have different focal length (28mm and 56mm), the main advantage will be to provide a limited optical zoom, and maybe some kind of subject isolation if the subject is in the center of the field.
The phone cameras have already changed photography as we know it by displacing consumer cameras - as evidenced by the dramatic drop in sales for camera manufacturers in the last five years.
However, DSLRs and enthusiast mirrorless cameras are doing fine, and this new iphone is no more threat than the previous one.
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#3I think fake bokeh is meh. It's right up there with the "Ken Burns effect".
Cell phone cameras aren't bad, given what they are, but the one lens I have for my DSLR is this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Canon-28mm-Wide-Angle-Cameras/dp/B000...
precisely because it opens very wide which means you don't just get bokeh but you also capture a lot of light which helps with low light, high speeds, etc. There is a physical limit to what you can achieve with a little tiny lens.
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#4Correct me if I am wrong but how is this different than the dual camera on my HTC M8? Is this revolutionary because it is Apple?
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#5Meh, that was an overly dramatic way of saying the new iPhone will have more depth of field.
Re: Apple’s dual camera phone will change photography as we know it
#6Correct me if I am wrong but how is this different than the dual camera on my HTC M8? Is this revolutionary because it is Apple?
The article admits this (and is a 'top highlight').
>This isn’t the first time a camera manufacturer has put a dual camera system into a camera phone — but with Apple’s software app ecosystem behind it, I believe we will change photography forever starting September 7th.
Seems as though the author is saying that because Apple is doing it, that this will now become the norm. If true, I hate that this is true and Apple gets the credit.
Re: Apple’s dual camera phone will change photography as we know it
#7Meh, that was an overly dramatic way of saying the new iPhone will have more depth of field.
Actually it will have less.
Re: Apple’s dual camera phone will change photography as we know it
#8Because the two cameras have different focal length (28mm and 56mm), the main advantage will be to provide a limited optical zoom, and maybe some kind of subject isolation if the subject is in the center of the field. The phone cameras have already changed photography as we know it by displacing consumer cameras - as evidenced by the dramatic drop in sales for camera manufacturers in the last five years. However, DSL…
Mirroless cameras have progressed far from "enthusiast" at this point.
Re: Apple’s dual camera phone will change photography as we know it
#9Correct me if I am wrong but how is this different than the dual camera on my HTC M8? Is this revolutionary because it is Apple?
The article admits this (and is a 'top highlight'). >This isn’t the first time a camera manufacturer has put a dual camera system into a camera phone — but with Apple’s software app ecosystem behind it, I believe we will change photography forever starting September 7th. Seems as though the author is saying that because Apple is doing it, that this will now become the norm. If true, I hate that this is true and Apple…
>If true, I hate that this is true.
What's exactly to hate? In most fields it's not the first-comers that set trends, it's those that have significant market impact.
Especially if the first-comers have half-baked implementations, where the one with the more polished and market-ready one wins.
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#10> the main difference between a camera with a proper lens and the tiny flat ones that you would find in any smartphone is a feature of a photo called depth of field.
This is highly reductionist and thus, misleading. Optical design of photography lenses is a very complex field whose main purpose is not "giving photos a DoF effect", but to provide control on aperture and focal length and boost the received light while keeping chromatic and geometrical aberrations to a minimum. The Wikipedia article on lens evolution is very interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photographic_lens_d...