
So the purists will probably just have to get over it.
IPHONE XS JUST CAUSE 4 IMAGES SOFTWARE
In film’s heyday, for instance, shutterbugs were pretty much locked into their choice of color or black-and-white, whereas many photographers now happily switch between the two in their editing software of choice depending on whatever looks better. Still, that’s true of lots of other decisions in photography. Many users will find this handy and fun to play around with (it’s also reminiscent of what camera maker Lytro was trying to do.) But photography purists may scoff at the idea that this particular creative choice is moving from before-the-fact to after-the-fact. This is possible because the iPhone’s background blur is digitally created by software, not by the width of a physical shutter. Once you make an image, there’s no going back to change the aperture, and thus the depth of field, after the fact.īut with the iPhone Xs, users can change the depth of field of their images after they’re recorded. But photographers typically have to make this creative choice before hitting the shutter. The wider the aperture, the thinner the plane of focus, helping photographers keep a subject pin-sharp while throwing the background out of focus to produce that pleasing “bokeh” effect. With traditional cameras, photographers select an aperture - how wide the shutter opens - before making an image. This’ll be the most controversial feature on the new iPhone among some photographers. Those images get sent to a buffer then instantly deleted - unless you tap the shutter, in which case they’re saved. The iPhone Xs circumvents that problem with a clever solution: Just like The Hulk is always angry, the iPhone Xs’ camera app is always shooting images - when it’s open, of course. IPhones and other smartphones have long suffered from a distinct lag between the time you hit the shutter button and the moment a photograph is actually recorded. The advertised result: Better photos with minimal work on the photographer’s part.



But Apple’s new iPhone Xs offers a new feature called “Smart HDR,” which the company says intelligently combines differently-exposed frames into a single image. The iPhone has long had an option for HDR photos.
