New iPhone SE can only do Portrait mode pics with the studio lighting effects on human subjects due to the single camera lens. It uses a combination of Machine Learning and inspired guesswork/chicken intestines to create the depth of field effect.
Software to the rescue, an app called Halide Camera extends that capacity to non-human subjects/objects, such as cats.
Here’s an example of such a shot.
Don’t know when my brother plans on celebrating his son’s 21st birthday (the date is Friday Oct 9) but we’ll be in lockdown until at least Oct 11 so physical attendance is out. Ah well, at least I’ve been able to cobble together a gift from various items at an online men’s grooming store. The package is in transit to me, should have it in 3 to 6 days. So there’s going to be enough time to personalise the gift & repost it to the lad.
@variablepulserate This particular butcher got into a power of trouble back in the 1980s for having too much meat in his Lorne sausage. So he modified the recipe & I personally believe it now has to high a cereal content.
@matigo Depends. the kid might be an optimist & conclude there’s a horse somewhere…
@matigo I tried it with Zoom, QuickTime and Jitsi Meet, the latter is web-based & did not detect the Epoccam. It's supposed to work with Skype, too.
I use it on my iPad Mini 5 & iPhone SE. It's useless on the iPad 5th gen & 7th gen iPod Touch because they have pathetic 1.2 MP FaceTime cameras.
on iPads, it only works properly on the Air 3, Mini 5 and newer Pros than the original 12.9-inchers because of that 1.2 MP FaceTime camera.
@variablepulserate I'm desperately waiting for the current round of lockdown (with its 5 km travel radius restriction) to end. I'll have a chance to visit a shop called Rob's British Butcher, some 30 km away.
This bloke is a misplaced Yorkshireman and makes fantastic sausages, about two dozen different varieties & pork pies in four different sizes: palm sized, hand sized, another about the diameter of a DVD plus the really big one that rivals a large wheel of cheese. Scottish square sausage in very spicy & very bland varieties. He also sells beverages, desserts, oat cakes, cheeses & bacon galore.