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How do you adjust smartphone aperture for aperture priority mode?


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visualopsins wrote:
How do you adjust smartphone aperture for aperture priority mode?


There is no aperture adjustment. Only time and ISO can be adjusted; i.e. the aperture is always the same and fixed on each and every single lens.
On the Pixel 7 Pro it's f/2.2 on the ultra-wide, f/1.85 on the "Normal" (wide) and f/3.5 on the tele lens.


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tb_a wrote:
visualopsins wrote:
How do you adjust smartphone aperture for aperture priority mode?


There is no aperture adjustment. Only time and ISO can be adjusted; i.e. the aperture is always the same and fixed on each and every single lens.
On the Pixel 7 Pro it's f/2.2 on the ultra-wide, f/1.85 on the "Normal" (wide) and f/3.5 on the tele lens.


There is no diaphragm to adjust aperture!

For comparison, corresponding Samsung Galaxy S22 plus cameras apertures are f/2.2, f/1.8, and f/2.4.


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Interestingly the Huawei P30 Pro camera does have an aperture setting.

I suspect it's emulated but it does seem to work pretty well for changing DoF.


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Vintage_Photographer wrote:
Interestingly the Huawei P30 Pro camera does have an aperture setting.

I suspect it's emulated but it does seem to work pretty well for changing DoF.


Huawei indicates "apeture setting" does selective blurring. Edit: more accurately, selective anti-blurring. Where on the image is tapped the focus will be, the rest of the image will be blurred for simulation of aperture dof effects.

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/content/en-us15881182/


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I took this rather generic photo (2 frames stitched) of rural China on a Xiaomi Mi 11 ultra flagship phone which is a few generations back now. The photo is good quality, as expected. What did surprise me is that the camera detected a mosquito in the top left corner, not far from the camera, focused on it and layered this into the photo in reasonable focus.



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That's interesting! I think the algorithm also uses selective sharpening. Just guessing here.


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https://thesmartphonephotographer.com/how-smartphone-cameras-focus/

Could be intelligent multi-shot burst focusing and layering. The would produce far better results than only selective sharpening/blurring. Combining both could be...


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A quick grab shot with my Pixel 8 Pro.


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I am still using Redmi Note 10 pro. Out of curiosity I took the same scene with the phone's main camera and with Minolta MD 2.8/35 put on Sony Nex. I was interested to see the DR of both. Both are SOOC jpeg, resized.

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Samsung Galaxy S22+

Meet Stripe



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La Rochelle Vieux Port on a Pixel 8 pro.
The camera on this phone can capture some stunning images at time.
This on is straight from camera - no adjustments whatsoever.


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Like old wooden racing yachts! Lady Trix 1909, what an awesome restoral.


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Samsung Galaxy S22+

Pacific gopher snake https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_gopher_snake


resized from 4000x3000px


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