The dual - camera lenses also enable the best bokeh effect (when
the background blurs around the subject of the shot) we've ever seen on a smartphone.
The difference between the two is all in the collection of data: Once your iPhone X has that information, it's processed in similar ways by the on - board image signal processor (ISP) and turned into depth of field information, producing artificial foreground and
background blurs around your subject.
Not exact matches
The cameras can fairly accurately detect the
background and the subject, allowing you to
blur everything
around your face when snapping a selfie.
The surroundings,
background and anything
around that person become
blurred and the picture gets a new aesthetic altogether.
We aren't sure just yet about the specifics for Instagram's portrait mode, but if it's like what we've seen so far in the industry, it'll likely
blur out the
background around subjects you take photos of to create for more professional - looking shots.
It even worked on a picture without a clear foreground and
background, keeping my colleague's head sharp while
blurring everything
around him.
The camera can also create pictures with a bokeh effect, where the
background is
blurred around a single subject, reproducing an effect usually seen on DSLR cameras.
It can work when there's distinction between the two, but if you happen to have hair the same colour as the
background - or just wispy hair - then it will get
blurred around the edges.
You get a main 16MP snapper, and that's accompanied by a depth sensing 2MP snapper, allowing you to take Bokeh effect shots where the
background around your subject is
blurred.
This makes it similar to the iPhone 7 Plus's camera setup, and like Apple's phone, the Xiaomi Mi 5X takes «portrait» photos where the
background around the in - focus subject gets
blurred out.