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What makes for a better portrait photo? Google’s incredible camera software? LG’s brute force hardware? Which camera cuts around hair better? Which company delivers the more eye-pleasing background blur? Let’s FIGHT!
Continue reading “Portrait Mode Fight! Software vs Hardware! Pixel 4 vs LG V60!”
It’s a joke for April, but NOT an April Fools joke!
There’s much debate over how to pronounce the word “bokeh”, a Japanese term used to describe the artistic quality of lens blur. While we photo-geeks squabble about “ke” versus “kay”, or what region of Japan has a slight upward inflection, or blah blah blah…
The one thing we should all be able to agree on is that the recent Apple commercial is completely wrong. Where one woman turns to another and says:
“Did you just BOCA my child?”
Boca. As in Boca Raton. That’s completely wrong. All I can hear is one woman ask another:
“Did you just MOUTH my child?”
Which is kind of dirty for an Apple ad.
I’ve drawn a line in the sand, and if you want to stand with me on the correct side of that line, I’ve put up a collection of t-shirts and hoodies to help you support the good and righteous cause of language preservation. We’ll probably lose this fight against the juggernaut of Apple marketing, but we won’t go down without a fight!
Men and Women cut premium t-shirts, and super soft premium hoodies, only available through the month of April!
While joining Damir Franc’s podcast, we got to talking about the Nokia 9 PureView. I’ve been showing off some samples on social media, but it’s tough to fully express why this camera feels different, when we only get to look at compressed samples on Instagram. Why does IG compression have to suck so hard still?
I digress…
The good news is, we can get around that, and YOU can check this out on your own Android phone!
Continue reading “Try the Nokia 9 PureView Depth Mapping on YOUR phone!”
Portrait mode vs DSLR! Can software processing on our phones FINALLY match the output from a standalone camera? Is Portrait Mode a worthy competitor to a nice camera body and fast glass? Years ago I produced a comparison where DSLR’s handily crushed phone cameras, but for consumers, the battle is a LOT closer. Let’s take a quick look at some samples, and see how far phones have improved!
Phone vs DSLR (2015) https://youtu.be/AyQOgf7NVBk
Smartphone Bokeh Test (2013) https://youtu.be/zGVtbcDtsV4
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Continue reading “Smartphone Portrait Mode vs DSLR: Bokeh Fight!”
Let’s be real. Smartphone cameras aren’t as good as REAL cameras yo. Truth. Here are the deets on four SUCKY phones, which shoot SUCKY photos, using SUCKY software blur! Bokehtastic? NOT!!!
A wonderful question from one of my YouTube viewers, Will F.
“What are your thoughts about the images with respect to sharing? At sharing size (Facebook, etc), only so much detail is really visible. It seems like the 1020 would be overkill in these situations, especially since you have to do a little extra work to get the full size images off of the phone. My only real gripe about this phone is the slow shot-to-shot time.”
Let’s take a look at some pics from the 1020, and see if we can address Will’s concerns about the camera!
Click here for high definition video samples from the Lumia 1020!