{"id":45717,"date":"2024-11-08T16:29:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=45717"},"modified":"2024-11-08T20:20:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T01:20:59","slug":"iphone-18-pro-variable-camera-aperture-rumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/08\/iphone-18-pro-variable-camera-aperture-rumor\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 18 Pro Variable Camera Aperture Rumor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hartley Charlton<\/a> (Ming-Chi Kuo<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro models will feature an upgraded main rear camera with a variable aperture for the first time, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

The iPhone 14 Pro, 15 Pro, and 16 Pro’s main cameras feature a fixed aperture of ƒ\/1.78. A variable aperture on future iPhone models would allow the main camera to control the amount of light entering the lens, allowing it to adjust to different lighting conditions. It also would provide more control over depth of field, enabling sharper focus on subjects or smoother background blur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

I continue to find the iPhone 15 Pro camera to be a regression for certain types of photos, and I think it’s because of the shallower depth of field. I often photograph a person sitting at a table with something in front of them. With previous iPhones, I didn’t have to think about it. I could just take a photo and it would be OK: the person’s face reasonably in focus and the document\/cake\/game also easily visible. Now, I get a lot of photos where either the object or the person—it does not always prioritize the face—is blurry. It’s not really evident in the view finder that this is going to happen. If I remember, I can use manual focus to prioritize one or the other, and whichever I pick will look much better than with previous iPhones, but it’s still not really what I want because the secondary subject still ends up blurry.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n