Re:iPhone SE: The One-Eyed King?
by argonaut on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:14AM
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There's also one big area where photos have noticeable artifacts even viewed on the phone: portrait mode. Almost all portrait mode photos will have areas that are blurred when they shouldn't be, or in focus when they shouldn't be. Part of an ear or piece of hair that's blurred out. Or the background between your fingers is in focus.
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I've found the iPhone's portrait mode to be near unusable despite looking at first-glance like it might be a great shot. Hair and ears are always an issue (and not something you can avoid in portraits very often...) and another classic example is with a wine glass where the surrounds blur but the vision through the glass is sharp.
Interesting to note is that the portrait mode that comes with iOS and Android are radically different, built on completely different technology. So you will see different artifacts on each.