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0 pointsdavidiach9y ago0 comments

I was really impressed with the new camera. It seems to me this was a bigger improvement than what they usually do.

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I'm still kind of dumbfounded that the 7 Plus has two cameras side-by-side and apparently ISN'T using them to capture 3D images. One would think this would be the best/most obvious application.

macinjosh9y ago

The reason for the lack of 3D is probably that the two cameras have different lenses. Once is wide angle the other is telephoto.

AndrewKemendo9y ago

You can still do it, you just have to tweak your calibration parameters to accept a different focal length for the second camera. It's a huge pain but doable.

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lorenzhs9y ago

They're too close together for that. Your eyes are about 6cm (~2.4in) apart, those lenses look like they're 1cm apart. You need enough distance between them to capture stereoscopic images.

nicky09y ago

Nice opportunity there for 3rd party app makers. Presuming the RAW API or whatever it is called will let apps access the separate sensors.

That said how would the phone display the 3D image? One of those cardboard VR things? Not very Appley.

redler9y ago

The lenses are very close together, so any 3D effect would be very subtle except perhaps in close-up/macro situations.

cududa9y ago

Remember Touch ID hardware > Apple Pay? I expect we'll see something similar with the dual cameras.

I expect either VR support, 3D imaging, or using them+dynamic light sensing of iPad Pro to have a "reactive" UI where gradients in the UI behave as if they might have real world lighting applied to them

evan_9y ago

Maybe there's only one image processor so it can't capture from both cameras simultaneously.

davidhperry9y ago

> One would think this would be the best/most obvious application.

Holding some features back for the next model, perhaps. They have to smooth out the 'wow factor' for each model to keep growth steady.

sk8ingdom9y ago

Couldn't they push this out as a future software update?

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