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- No. The iPhone 7 Plus has the same camera as the iPhone 7. And it's got another rear camera. Apple kept referring to it as a telephoto camera. But it's not. Its field of view is roughly half that of the standard camera, delivering a full-frame equivalent of 56mm.
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The iPhone 7 Plus comes with two cameras: a wide angle camera for 1x operation and a telephoto lens for 2x optical zoom. Except, when it doesn't. The telephoto lens is not always used in 2x...
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- Zoom With The 2x Telephoto Lens. The regular iPhone 7 camera has the standard wide-angle lens, similar to previous iPhone models. But the iPhone 7 Plus has two separate rear-facing camera lenses.
- Beware Of Digital Zoom. As well as the 1x/2x zoom option, the camera app also has a digital zoom feature which allows you to “zoom in” even closer. It’s easy to activate – simply touch the 1x button with your finger and drag to the left.
- Create Shallow Depth Of Field With Portrait Mode. Up until now, one of the main limitations with the iPhone camera has been that you couldn’t control the depth of field like you can on a DSLR camera.
- The Importance Of Background When Using Depth Effect. The Depth Effect feature in Portrait mode works best when your subject is far away from the background, and when there’s something in the background to begin with.
- IPhone 7 Plus Cameras
- Portrait Mode with Depth Effect Issues
- Panorama Stitching Issues
- Ghosting and Flare
- Autofocus Performance
- Details and Noise
- HDR Mode
- Raw / DNG Format
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First of all, it is important to point out that the iPhone 7 Plus actually has two cameras with two lenses. While both cameras have the same 12 MP resolution sensors, there is actually a difference in sensor size and maximum aperture between the two. The first wide-angle camera has a 1/3″ sensor with a 28mm equivalent f/1.8 lens (a total of 6 lens ...
Apple’s engineers did a great job coming up with a solution that can simulate shallow depth of field that can only be achieved with larger cameras and lenses. For the first time in cell phone history, we heard such words as bokehbeing mentioned as part of an announcement, which certainly triggered some bold claims and even concerns from some photog...
Similar to the previous generation iPhone devices, the iPhone 7 Plus either has a problem with properly locking its exposure when stitching panoramas, or has some odd stitching algorithm that can mess up panoramas pretty badly, resulting in very uneven skies. While this is not a big deal in some situations, it certainly shows its weaknesses when sh...
What about ghosting and flare? Well, camera phones always have a hard time dealing with bright subjects and the iPhone 7 Plus is not an exception. Take a look at the below photo that I captured with the sun right above the frame: And that’s a good case – sometimes severe ghosting and flare can ruin the whole image, especially if the lens is not ver...
The iPhone 7 Plus is obviously not going to give you DSLR or mirrorless-level AF performance, so nobody expects to see a speed demon. The camera certainly does a good job with maintaining pretty solid and reliable AF performance, which is good enough in most situations. Keep in mind that a tiny 1/3″ sensor along with an f/1.8 aperture translate to ...
Thanks to a small sensor and tiny pixels, it is expected that the camera produces plenty of noise in low-light situations. This is not an issue if you are showcasing small to medium size images to your friends on social media, but if you are trying to do something more serious, you are not going to have a lot of options. The good news is, if you sh...
Just like the previous generation iPhones, the iPhone 7 Plus is also equipped with the “High Dynamic Range” (HDR) feature, which does a decent job at recovering highlights and shadows when dealing with more difficult lighting situations, as can be seen below: While the camera certainly does a good job at preserving highlights, I am not a big fan of...
When the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus came out, I got excited when I heard about the capability to shoot RAW / DNG images. However, I quickly found out that this capability was not natively built into the iOS and one has to rely on a third party app to be able to shoot DNG images. While I do have Lightroom mobile installed on my phone and I have trie...
It is certainly great to see all the innovation mobile phone manufacturers are putting into each new generation device. With Apple and other manufacturers now adding multiple cameras to their phones, even more photo capabilities are being pushed to appeal the masses. The idea is to show that camera phones can be good enough for everyday needs, and ...
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Oct 3, 2016 · Pros. Dual-lens camera takes great photos. Longest battery life of any iPhone. Water-resistant. Cons. No headphone jack, can’t charge and listen to wired headphones at the same time. Our...
Sep 9, 2016 · The 7 Plus's dual-lens configuration doesn't cover as much of a focal range as that old Kodak. Apple says the phone has a 2x optical zoom. Well, that's about as true as it having a...
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With the built-in 2x telephoto lens of the iPhone 7 Plus, you now essentially have a 2x optical zoom feature. Optical zoom means that it’s the lens, rather than software, that’s zooming in. And this results in much higher quality zoomed in images.
Nov 7, 2016 · Combined with digital zoom, you can drag the zoom slider in the camera app up to a 10x magnification. At F1.8 the six-element lens in the wide-angle camera comes with a faster aperture than the 6s Plus and optical image stabilization is on board as well.
