editguy
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That's the sort of effect we need from phone cameras. Their extremely short focal length lenses make it almost impossible without trickery, and it's trickery such as Nokia's Depth Mapping that gets us closer to the effects obtainable in 35mm photography. You'd probably need to use a 50mm lens at full aperture or thereabouts to get the very pleasing shallow depth of field in that shot.
Great shots. Any edits or mostly straight from the phone?
Thanks! I changed the depth on a few and also did slight warming on a few, but that's it. I took RAW too so when I get time I'll be playing with that. There was nothing wrong with the depth on the one's I changed. I just happen to think it looks more like it came from a DSLR if it's more subtle.
Here's a link to a short slo-mo video. I did some walking video that I'm not posting, but I think the problem with it is NOT that it doesn't have stabilization (which would definitely be welcome). Rather, that it doesn't have manual focus (unless I'm missing it). The video looks like it's hunting focus every time I take a step.
This one is just a short pan.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvA0fCKH5fU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Yep unfortunately you will need to use a third party app for manual focus in both photo and video modes. Hopefully they will update the software to include this later but it's one of those things that should've been there from day one.Here's a link to a short slo-mo video. I did some walking video that I'm not posting, but I think the problem with it is NOT that it doesn't have stabilization (which would definitely be welcome). Rather, that it doesn't have manual focus (unless I'm missing it). The video looks like it's hunting focus every time I take a step.
This one is just a short pan.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvA0fCKH5fU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Yep only in third party apps will you get access to manual focus and I really doubt Nokia gave them access to the five cameras yet so you'll probably only be using one sensor. Or I could be wrong about that. Can you guys confirm?The lack of manual focus really sucks, I agree. I certainly couldn't figure it out if there is one. I'd like it for taking pictures as well, sometimes pointing at an object for focus is insufficient.