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atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

The Management posted:

single camera bokeh continues to be garbage
left is Pixel 2, right is iPhone.

https://twitter.com/mattbirchler/status/923614348169437185

hint: your bokeh will never look "good" unless it is shot with an aps-c or larger sensor

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Athletic Footjob
Sep 24, 2005
Grimey Drawer
these bokeh lynchings have gone too far

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


atomicthumbs posted:

hint: your bokeh will never look "good" unless it is shot with an aps-c or larger sensor

it is pretty mind blowing seeing people try to defend the various fake depth of field effects as "good"

someone posted this for example:



yeah those columns look great sure.

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

Blue Train posted:

The study from mobile defense specialist Skycure analyzed patch updates among the five leading wireless carriers in the US and finds that 71 percent of mobile devices still run on security patches more than two months old.

honestly 29% being less than 2 months out of date is way better than id have guessed

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

yeah, it is a weird fascination manufacturers has with something that at best competes with novelty snapchat filters for usefulness

dual camera setups luckily good for other things as well, so one just has to, as always, avoid internet reviewer opinions about that gimmick aspect of them

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

atomicthumbs posted:

hint: your bokeh will never look "good" unless it is shot with an aps-c or larger sensor

paging pagancow

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe

Shifty Pony posted:

it is pretty mind blowing seeing people try to defend the various fake depth of field effects as "good"

someone posted this for example:



yeah those columns look great sure.

no surprise that someone who thinks that shot’s garbage composition looks good also thinks its fake bokeh looks good too.

Linguica
Jul 13, 2000
You're already dead

yeah a lot of the example fake bokeh pics I have seen from the pixel 2 look like loving poo poo and don't even make any physical sense, but since it seems like normies and/or verge editors don't notice or care, we can expect to have to endure it for the next several years

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

The Management posted:

single camera bokeh continues to be garbage
left is Pixel 2, right is iPhone.

https://twitter.com/mattbirchler/status/923614348169437185

My DSLR can do this any time all of the time.

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

The Management posted:

single camera bokeh continues to be garbage
left is Pixel 2, right is iPhone.

https://twitter.com/mattbirchler/status/923614348169437185

the one on the left is what the ghost entering our plane of existence looked like to the naked eye

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

akadajet posted:

My DSLR can do this any time all of the time.

and it even fits in the pocket of most standard-sized cargo jorts

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
lol at carrying a phablet for any reason, let alone for cheap camera tricks

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We

Shifty Pony posted:

it is pretty mind blowing seeing people try to defend the various fake depth of field effects as "good"

someone posted this for example:



yeah those columns look great sure.

cum-smeared pictures, now a software feature in anroid

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

it was dumb because bluetooth/wifi and awkward form factor but those clip on cameras sony made had some minor merit to them, you could get one with a 1" sensor and stabilized F1.8 lens

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

carry on then posted:

and it even fits in the pocket of most standard-sized cargo jorts

lol if u don't go everywhere with a giant dslr swinging from your neck

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
any phone larger than 5.2" is a phablet

any phone 6" and up is a tablet

Workaday Wizard
Oct 23, 2009

by Pragmatica
what's bokeh? i thought it was the hexagons in old film but i dont see it in those pics :confused:

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

what's bokeh? i thought it was the hexagons in old film but i dont see it in those pics :confused:

blurry background, foreground in focus

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


^SHTPSTS

Gary’s Answer
isn't that just depth of field? i never heard the term "bokeh" during my photography degree.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

broken? I thought it was hexagon

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

:v:

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe
"bokeh" refers to the specific blur that out-of-focus stuff has. it isn't depth-of-field or "background out of focus, foreground in focus" (that's just called shallow depth-of-field).

different lenses have different bokeh qualities, depending on stuff like how many blades the aperture has. if out of focus stuff looks hexagon-ish with your lens, it's because the aperture only has 6 blades.

bokeh is hard to fake (especially in real time) because it isn't just a "normal" blur like a box or gaussian blur. with a normal blur, bright objects get blended into their surrounding objects and become less bright, whereas in real photography, bright objects that are out of focus appear to expand. the best post-processing bokeh effects also simulate aperture blades and stuff like that.

the iphone+ models and now the pixel 2 try to simulate shallow depth of field by adding fake bokeh. devices with two cameras will be able to do a better job of it, because they'll be able to build a depth map. but the requirement that it be real-time or close to real-time means that the effect still isn't that convincing, and without a really accurate depth map (which you can't get with cameras only a centimeter apart) there are a lot of situations where the fake shallow depth of field effect just falls over completely.

Doc Block fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Oct 27, 2017

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug

Doc Block posted:

"bokeh" refers to the specific blur that out-of-focus stuff has. it isn't depth-of-field or "background out of focus, foreground in focus" (that's just called shallow depth-of-field).

different lenses have different bokeh qualities, depending on stuff like how many blades the aperture has. if out of focus stuff looks hexagon-ish with your lens, it's because the aperture only has 6 blades.

bokeh is hard to fake (especially in real time) because it isn't just a "normal" blur like a box or gaussian blur. with a normal blur, bright objects get blended into their surrounding objects and become less bright, whereas in real photography, bright objects that are out of focus appear to expand. the best post-processing bokeh effects also simulate aperture blades and stuff like that.

the iphone+ models and now the pixel 2 try to simulate shallow depth of field by adding fake bokeh. devices with two cameras will be able to do a better job of it, because they'll be able to build a depth map. but the requirement that it be real-time or close to real-time means that the effect still isn't that convincing, and without a really accurate depth map (which you can't get with cameras only a centimeter apart) there are a lot of situations where the fake shallow depth of field effect just falls over completely.

otoh it's a pleasing effect that you can fake well enough for viewing on a tiny screen and you don't have to lug around an SLR the size of a truck transmission

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


^SHTPSTS

Gary’s Answer

Doc Block posted:

"bokeh" refers to the specific blur that out-of-focus stuff has. it isn't depth-of-field or "background out of focus, foreground in focus" (that's just called shallow depth-of-field).

different lenses have different bokeh qualities, depending on stuff like how many blades the aperture has. if out of focus stuff looks hexagon-ish with your lens, it's because the aperture only has 6 blades.

bokeh is hard to fake (especially in real time) because it isn't just a "normal" blur like a box or gaussian blur. with a normal blur, bright objects get blended into their surrounding objects and become less bright, whereas in real photography, bright objects that are out of focus appear to expand. the best post-processing bokeh effects also simulate aperture blades and stuff like that.

the iphone+ models and now the pixel 2 try to simulate shallow depth of field by adding fake bokeh. devices with two cameras will be able to do a better job of it, because they'll be able to build a depth map. but the requirement that it be real-time or close to real-time means that the effect still isn't that convincing, and without a really accurate depth map (which you can't get with cameras only a centimeter apart) there are a lot of situations where the fake shallow depth of field effect just falls over completely.

Sweet, thanks for the info. I only did a minor and focused mostly on nighttime long exposure shots so I'm not as intimately familiar with low depth of field stuff.

heated game moment
Oct 30, 2003

Lipstick Apathy

Doc Block posted:

fake bokeh

i dont even have a fake bokeh accout

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009
fauxkeh

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

is it impossible to do real bokeh with smartphones? my nexus 5 actually has an f/2 lens, which would give you great blurries if it was a piece of SLR glass

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe
by "real bokeh" do you mean "have stuff be out of focus"? then yes. shallow depth of field? not for anything that isn't really close to the lens.

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



yeah the sensor sizes on phones stops you getting anything like real depth of field, they equivalently scale to somewhere between f8 and f11 on a dslr from memory. the dual lens thing is a fun way of working around the limitation.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

This is also why you need faster glass to get equivalent depth of field on crop sensor versus full frame cameras. Phones have absolutely tiny sensors, so depth of field is huge, which isn't always a bad thing.

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

Dislike button posted:

i dont even have a fake bokeh accout

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
did anyone say bokeh haram yet?

because i'm gonna, if not

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016

syscall girl posted:

did anyone say bokeh haram yet?

because i'm gonna, if not

poasting from my brand new chomebook

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

bokeh raton

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
measuring for depth of field for my bolex as a young man

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

“impressive bokeh of poo poo”

mods namechange plz

Crazy Achmed
Mar 13, 2001

So my nexus 4 finally died, touchscreen went haywire. I think i can see the screen coming away from the glass internally around where the problem area seems to be :rip:

Posting from a friend's discarded nexus 5 which seems to have random microphone doesn't work during calls issues. And you all have me so confused now about what i should buy as a replacement

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Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We

Crazy Achmed posted:

So my nexus 4 finally died, touchscreen went haywire. I think i can see the screen coming away from the glass internally around where the problem area seems to be :rip:

Posting from a friend's discarded nexus 5 which seems to have random microphone doesn't work during calls issues. And you all have me so confused now about what i should buy as a replacement

an iphone se

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