Re:Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Mac...
by Ma8ee on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:07PM
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Why wouldn’t you need to stop down similarly on a phone camera?
Re:Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Mac...
by foldr on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:09PM
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Because depth of field depends on focal length as well as f number. Or to put it another way, it depends on the absolute diameter of the aperture, not the ratio of the focal length to the aperture diameter (= the f number).
(Also, of course, you can't stop down on a phone camera as it has a fixed aperture.)
One thing that people often miss is that you can think about all of this just in terms of the absolute diameter of the aperture (not the f number, just the diameter in mm). For a given angle of view, the diameter of the aperture determines how much light you gather. The question is simply whether a photographer using a DSLR is going to be able to use an aperture that is significantly wider (in mm) than the ~4mm aperture of a phone camera. For depth of field reasons, it's unlikely that they will be able to do so.