27-inch iMac gets a major update

Re:27-inch iMac gets a major update by jonpurdy on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:26PM (#24052312)

How awesome would an updated iSight be today? You could fit an APC-C sized sensor (1.6x crop DSLR) with a 22mm f/2 pancake lens for some insane bokeh. Probably at around the $300 price point. Sure would be easier than hooking a "clean HDMI" DSLR or mirrorless into a HDMI input/USB adaptor...

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Re:27-inch iMac gets a major update by geerlingguy on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @04:38PM (#24054257)

Especially if the camera could compress the stream in-body so you don't have to blow up your CPU/GPU to get a good 60fps HD video signal like you do using a mirrorless/DSLR.

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Re:27-inch iMac gets a major update by numpad0 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:30PM (#24057017)

IMO YMMV etc but wide lens distortion can drag down what people would call “image quality”. 50 or 85 would work better for portraits if you can afford the distance.

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