Is the Note 7's Selective Focus similar to the iPhone 7's depth-of-field that they were making such a big deal of today during the iPhone event?
I didn't catch that cold so it is good to know. Is there a similar feature on the note 7?The 7Plus can focus on a different part of the scene, allowing the user to change focus after the fact.
Similar to a Lytro camera.
Being a photographer, all I can say is there is no difference between these two. When they call it depth of field, there is no aperture control to control the depth of field. All its going to do is by focus. In a real world (SLR cameras), you change the depth field by changing the aperture in the lens, while iPhone 7 comes with fixed 1.8 aperture. That said, iPhone utilizes the software feature to control the depth of field aka selective focus to capture what they call, depth of field.
To understand the aperture, you can experiment this with your eyes. If you place an object just near to your eye and you just look at that object, your eye pupil expands (lets say its around 1.4f aperture - and you can notice the background is totally blur) and when you look at an object 50 meters away pupil size decreases (around f8.0 aperture - you can see more stuffs in distance in the same glance).
IPhone 7 comes with the fixed f1.8 aperture, and is in its way to make a new legacy about depth of field - people believe whatever Apple says!
Being a photographer, all I can say is there is no difference between these two. When they call it depth of field, there is no aperture control to control the depth of field. All its going to do is by focus. In a real world (SLR cameras), you change the depth field by changing the aperture in the lens, while iPhone 7 comes with fixed 1.8 aperture. That said, iPhone utilizes the software feature to control the depth of field aka selective focus to capture what they call, depth of field.
To understand the aperture, you can experiment this with your eyes. If you place an object just near to your eye and you just look at that object, your eye pupil expands (lets say its around 1.4f aperture - and you can notice the background is totally blur) and when you look at an object 50 meters away pupil size decreases (around f8.0 aperture - you can see more stuffs in distance in the same glance).
IPhone 7 comes with the fixed f1.8 aperture, and is in its way to make a new legacy about depth of field - people believe whatever Apple says!
Being a photographer, all I can say is there is no difference between these two. When they call it depth of field, there is no aperture control to control the depth of field. All its going to do is by focus. In a real world (SLR cameras), you change the depth field by changing the aperture in the lens, while iPhone 7 comes with fixed 1.8 aperture. That said, iPhone utilizes the software feature to control the depth of field aka selective focus to capture what they call, depth of field.
To understand the aperture, you can experiment this with your eyes. If you place an object just near to your eye and you just look at that object, your eye pupil expands (lets say its around 1.4f aperture - and you can notice the background is totally blur) and when you look at an object 50 meters away pupil size decreases (around f8.0 aperture - you can see more stuffs in distance in the same glance).
IPhone 7 comes with the fixed f1.8 aperture, and is in its way to make a new legacy about depth of field - people believe whatever Apple says!
From what I read, iPhone's depth of field feature is using software to artificially blurred the background more to create a more pronounced bokeh effect.
Yes, it should be the case. While the 56mm lens on iPhone 7 plus could take a better bokeh in good lighting, but low light performance will be worst, with its f/2.8 aperture.Thanks for the explanation. This makes sense. Being that the Note has a f1.7 aperture, that makes it better than the iPhone 7+, correct?