Seeing blobs when shooting low-light Portrait mode? Here's what's going onThe iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus do a lot of heavy lifting when you shoot in Portrait mode at night — and if you look closely, you can even see it in the viewfinder.
The iPhone 8 Plus and its iPhone 7 Plus predecessor pack a ton of photographic computational power and mathematics underneath their sleek glass and metal exteriors. Whenever you open the Camera app on an iPhone, the app begins to instantly analyze the scene for movement and lighting conditions to give you the best picture; this is largely thanks to its A-series chipset and image signal processor (ISP).
iPhone 8 Plus (left) and iPhone 7 Plus (right) use a ton of behind-the-scenes data to give you pictures like this.
In daylight, this isn't visible to the end user — you line up the shot, take the photo, and get your (hopefully) desired result. But when you shoot Portrait mode at night in almost pitch-black conditions, you can see a little bit of that magic in action.
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Seeing blobs when shooting low-light Portrait mode? Here's what's going on
