
The iPhone does this by using its A12 chip and “neural engine” to perform 1 trillion “operations” per photo, like auto exposure, focus, noise reduction, face detection, and so on.
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Wide-angle lenses tend to put everything in focus. The iPhone XS’s dual-lens system-sold by Apple since the bigger iPhone 7 Plus was launched in 2016-combines pictures taken by both lenses and uses software to create the depth of field we’re used to from those nice older cameras. Apple has focused a lot on manufacturing good bokeh that is pleasing on the eye, even if its executives sometimes have trouble pronouncing it. That blurry background is often referred to as bokeh, but that’s not correct it’s the visual quality of the blur that is known as bokeh.
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Professional photography is often distinctive for the depth of field, usually with the subject being in sharp focus and the background being blurred. Apple’s chief designer Jonny Ive once described this (paywall) through what sounds like gritted teeth as “a really very pragmatic optimization.” Since the release of the iPhone 6 in 2014, the iPhone has had a “bump” on the back where the camera protrudes rather than sits flush as with previous generations of the phone, which allows the lens to sit further away from the sensor and gives you higher-quality pictures similar to what you get in a proper camera. The increased sensor size means that, even though the photos are still 12 megapixels (that’s six times the original), more light is reaching the larger megapixels and so each is much richer in information. And still, these sensors are nowhere near the size of what goes into a full-frame DSLR. That the pixels on the sensor are deeper, too, is what allows this sensor to gather 50% more light.”

“But I checked, and Apple confirmed that the iPhone XS wide-angle sensor is in fact 32% larger. “That seemed too good to be true,” Gruber wrote. He contacted Apple and they confirmed that the focal length was longer yet the camera was taking wider pictures, which suggested a much, much larger sensor was being used. REUTERS/Stephen Lam Truly magazine-worthy photography. The iPhone XS wide-angle lens has an equivalent focal length of 26mm, while the telephoto has the equivalent of a 52mm lens. We say the “equivalent of” because, in real cameras, the focal length is a measure of where the light rays would converge to form an image on a frame of standard 35mm film or on the sensor of a full-frame DSLR. The new flagship iPhone XS and XS Max come with dual-lens systems-one wide-angle and one telephoto. Where there was once no flash, the flash now comes with four LEDs. More impressive is what those cameras can do, and how far they’ve come in relation to traditional photography and DSLR digital cameras. Well, not really (paywall).įast forward 11 years and the iPhone XS has three cameras-two 12-megapixel ones on the back and one that is 7 megapixels on the front. There was no editing of pics. And there was a single camera on the back-there was no front-facing camera for selfies, which had not yet been invented.


You couldn’t zoom in on the photos, not even digitally. The camera on the first iPhone in 2007 was nothing revolutionary, even for the time.
