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Saying the iPhone 7 Plus can do bokeh is like saying the iPhone 7 Plus can do zoom: Technically accurate, but it's completely and utterly outclassed by a real c

Saying the iPhone 7 Plus can do bokeh is like saying the iPhone 7 Plus can do zoom: Technically accurate, but it's completely and utterly outclassed by a real camera. Scroll down to the bokeh section on https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/12/mini-shootout-can-iphone-7s-bag-of-tricks-compete-with-a-real-dslr/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/12/mini-shootout-can-ip... for example. Speaking of zoom, if you think the only thing interesting about the 1st and 3rd pictures is bokeh, then you're not noticing just how much zoom is used on them. The new zoom lens on the iPhone is a 56mm equivalent - just slightly more than a quarter of the lens used for those pictures. The iPhone does not have anything on it that makes it capable for the same sort of shots a real camera with a telephoto lens offers.

luckydude 10y ago
What he said. And some more details: all of those pictures (and all of my pictures to date) are jpeg right off the camera. No post processing, no HDR (which is why I'm proud of that fog picture. That's a freaking jpeg shot straight into the sun and I've got details in the shadows). And the hawk stuff is usually a 600mm f4 lens. A touch different than a 56mm equiv. And one of those was on a 7D II, so 1.6x crop factor, so 960mm equiv. Don't get me wrong, I'll probably buy that phone because the best camera is the one you have and you always have your phone. But it's never gonna replace that 200mm f2.0 lens with that yummy yummy bokeh. I'll happily be the dinosaur that is carrying around that heavy stuff as long as I can lift it. Makes me happy.
- dvtv75 10y ago
  I have a handful of rather nice images, photos taken of the Moon, rainbows, or crepuscular rays. As I said, they're rather nice, but as you suggest, I really wish I had my Nikon on me at the time. They wouldn't just be "rather nice," they could be incredible.
  - luckydude 10y ago
    Yeah, the phone is awesome because you have it and you can capture images. I'm not going to haul my pro body and a huge ass lens everywhere I go. But when I have that stuff your point that they go from nice to incredible is spot on. Look at this (warning 9MB download): http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/2017-carrizo-plain/2017-04-15-10.08.41.jpg http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/2017-carrizo-plain/2017-04-15-10.08.... and don't look at the shrunk size your browser shows you, click on it and see the full size and scroll around. That's a jpeg right off the 1dx. It's insanely sharp and detailed.

luckydude 10y ago

What he said. And some more details: all of those pictures (and all of my pictures to date) are jpeg right off the camera. No post processing, no HDR (which is why I'm proud of that fog picture. That's a freaking jpeg shot straight into the sun and I've got details in the shadows). And the hawk stuff is usually a 600mm f4 lens. A touch different than a 56mm equiv. And one of those was on a 7D II, so 1.6x crop factor, so 960mm equiv. Don't get me wrong, I'll probably buy that phone because the best camera is the one you have and you always have your phone. But it's never gonna replace that 200mm f2.0 lens with that yummy yummy bokeh. I'll happily be the dinosaur that is carrying around that heavy stuff as long as I can lift it. Makes me happy.

dvtv75 10y ago
I have a handful of rather nice images, photos taken of the Moon, rainbows, or crepuscular rays. As I said, they're rather nice, but as you suggest, I really wish I had my Nikon on me at the time. They wouldn't just be "rather nice," they could be incredible.
- luckydude 10y ago
  Yeah, the phone is awesome because you have it and you can capture images. I'm not going to haul my pro body and a huge ass lens everywhere I go. But when I have that stuff your point that they go from nice to incredible is spot on. Look at this (warning 9MB download): http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/2017-carrizo-plain/2017-04-15-10.08.41.jpg http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/2017-carrizo-plain/2017-04-15-10.08.... and don't look at the shrunk size your browser shows you, click on it and see the full size and scroll around. That's a jpeg right off the 1dx. It's insanely sharp and detailed.