iPhone 7 Plus and fake bokeh

So, two things that have been the holy grails separating smartphone cameras
from "real" cameras are things like shallow depth of field and interchangeable
lenses/zoom lenses.

With the iPhone 7 Plus, this gap just became a bit shorter. It has two cameras,
one with a 28mm equivalent lens with f1.8 and one with a 56mm equivalent lens
with f2.8.

Using these two lenses, the software zoom just got a whole lot better, and the
"2x" zoom isn't software at all. It's using the other lens.

Not only that, Apple showed a "sneak peak" of a new feature they can do with
this. Using both lenses, they can create a depth map of the scene, determining
what is the background and what is the foreground, meaning they can add
background blur in post processing. It's fake bokeh so to speak and it's a
really neat trick.

The smart phone (and the iPhone in particular) is killing the P&S market, and
they just upped the game a notch.

Northrup has a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGp3JXKtHBM
and some ideas on how to keep the enthusiast segment afloat, the pro segment is
indestructible, but the consumer segment is all but gone, so what does camera
makers have to do to keep the enthusiasts buying real cameras?

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Sandman

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Sandman wrote:

With the iPhone 7 Plus, this gap just became a bit shorter. It has two
cameras,
one with a 28mm equivalent lens with f1.8 and one with a 56mm equivalent lens
with f2.8.

I like it wide and the Xperia M4 has a 22mm equivalent so stick with
that and the EOS-M in my carryalong, that with the Samy 12/2.0 gives
about the same perspective in a very compact combo and the benefits of
APS-C.
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