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Apple Shares New Ad Highlighting iPhone 7 Plus Portrait Mode
Apple today released a new ad on its YouTube channel, highlighting the photographic capabilities of iPhone 7 Plus, including Portrait Mode.
In the sweet new ad, entitled "The City," two people spot each other from across a crowded city street and then go on a series of adventures while using the iPhone 7 Plus's camera to capture their journey.
The song "Sing to Me" by Walter Martin is featured in the background, and the ad uses the tagline "With Portrait mode on iPhone 7 Plus, you can focus on what you love and leave everything else behind."
Apple has done several ads focusing on the iPhone 7 Plus and its dual-lens camera, and this particular ad appears to be a sort of sequel to "Take Mine," the ad about a girl in a Greek village who captures the town using the Portrait Mode depth effect.
In the sweet new ad, entitled "The City," two people spot each other from across a crowded city street and then go on a series of adventures while using the iPhone 7 Plus's camera to capture their journey.
The song "Sing to Me" by Walter Martin is featured in the background, and the ad uses the tagline "With Portrait mode on iPhone 7 Plus, you can focus on what you love and leave everything else behind."
Apple has done several ads focusing on the iPhone 7 Plus and its dual-lens camera, and this particular ad appears to be a sort of sequel to "Take Mine," the ad about a girl in a Greek village who captures the town using the Portrait Mode depth effect.
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30 months ago
My dad bought an iPhone 7 and asked how to do Portrait mode...I go over and see he doesn't have the "Plus" - he got kinda peeved. He's not techy and didn't know there were different features (which I'm guessing that non-techy people are Apple's main crowd).
All I'm saying is that all iPhone 7's should be built & act the same (obviously a high res screen and bigger battery would be acceptable. But not giant features).
All I'm saying is that all iPhone 7's should be built & act the same (obviously a high res screen and bigger battery would be acceptable. But not giant features).
30 months ago
I don't get it. Somehow I missed the memo. Can someone explain to me what "Portrait Mode" is/does?
The iPhone 7 Plus has two camera lenses on the back. One is your typical lens, and the other is a "tele-photo" lens that gives you 2x optical 'zoom'. It's not an actual zoom, but the other lens has a longer focal length.
With Portrait mode, the iPhone switches to this telephoto lens and uses the other standard lens in conjunction with it to scan the scene and basically come up with a 'depth map' of the scene so that the iPhone can tell how far the objects in front of it are in relation to one another. With this information, the iPhone can add a blur effect to objects in the background of your subject with the blur increasing in intensity as objects are further and further away from the subject. This is essentially mimicking a "bokeh" effect that is common with lenses on larger DSLR cameras that keep your subject in focus while having a soft focus on everything else. The iPhone obviously cannot fit a large enough lens to produce this effect physically, so Apple incorporated a software work-around that actually works rather well.
Unfortunately since the telephoto lens on the iPhone has a small aperture compared to the standard lens, this means that that lens does not gather as much light as the standard lens, so to use this Portrait mode feature, you need to be in a place with a lot of available light. It is also software scanning the background and creating a depth map, so it does take a bit of time to get right, and it does not alway work correctly. But it works rather well with faces, since the iPhone is able to do facial recognition to more quickly and accurately apply this effect.
30 months ago
Finally a decent add. Portrait mode is pretty incredible.
Portrait mode has alot of potential. But I would like to see it more refined with how particular it is with the distance being at 8 feet and how the photo needs to be just right to take the photo with specific lighting.
30 months ago
That was really terrific. The quality of photos we can get on our phones these days is remarkable. If we don't have our dedicated camera with us, we no longer have to settle for garbage shots from our mobile device like the smartphone cameras of yore. And this is coming from a DSLR owner. Great ad.
30 months ago
As usual, another feature which seems to polarise the population into extremes of love and hate. :confused:
Personally I find it works very well and since it captures both the original image and the one with the simulated bokeh you lose nothing and potentially gain a beautiful photo. Even if the simulated bokeh isn't perfect, you have the choice to take the original photo to a professional or work on it yourself in order to achieve a better result.
What is the alternative? Oh yes, we would have to buy a very expensive DSLR or similar and then develop the skills to use it to create authentic bokeh. No thanks, I'll stick with my iPhone 7+ and save a few thousand bucks! :cool:
Personally I find it works very well and since it captures both the original image and the one with the simulated bokeh you lose nothing and potentially gain a beautiful photo. Even if the simulated bokeh isn't perfect, you have the choice to take the original photo to a professional or work on it yourself in order to achieve a better result.
What is the alternative? Oh yes, we would have to buy a very expensive DSLR or similar and then develop the skills to use it to create authentic bokeh. No thanks, I'll stick with my iPhone 7+ and save a few thousand bucks! :cool:
30 months ago
Meh. Lipstick on a pig.
The halo blur around foreground subjects is laughable. Come out with the focus adjustment post-capture as a "feature" and then I'll drool.
Just my words!! Apple should use the 2 cams to create a lightfield feature, so re- focusing was possible with much better blur!
30 months ago
I want portrait mode, but on the smaller phone. Any chance of it making it 'down' this time around?
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