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and what up Internet you know who it is it's your boy gadget guy and as most of you know by now I'm a pretty serious semi-pro enthusiast amateur photographer maybe y'all don't know my almost booked a gig last week it was pretty hot and there's nothing that kid Chloe I should pick up the Berlin and there's nothing like compute the tasty delicious focus coming off some proper glass on a real camera that's how I roll I'm a natural light never used the flash crank the is Oh hipster douche bag and we all know that I'll blur on smartphones all suck and they can't be as good as real blast so here's the showdown to show you how much these four phones suck at taking gold a trash big picture look that's better but seriously folks we are going to take a quick look at software blur we've got two phones which use a single sensor and enhanced software to blur the backgrounds of your photos and we've got two phones which utilized additional depth information from multiple camera sensors to try and recreate the look of a proper DSLR while I am actually kind of a natural light prime lens knob when it comes to my proper camera it's not difficult to see the vast improvements to software image processing on our phones we're far removed from the days of those terrible circle blur filters on Instagram so for this list ranked entirely subjectively by my eye we're starting off at number four with the Google picks on Google's process for creating software blur involves the user focusing on a subject and after hitting the shutter button tilting the camera vertically which kind of makes sense if your subject is significantly closer than the rest of your background then the software should be able to see bigger differences farther away from the lens so why is the pixel suck for creating background blur well introducing that movement does make this process a bit less consistent the pixel processes images ridiculously fast but introducing that tilt means ur is a greater likelihood that the phone is going to miss read the scene or that there will be some introduction of hand movement blur in the shot especially in lower light condition at number three the galaxy s7 also a single sensor phone Samsung solution doesn't involve any movement so that's a positive but to create a blurry or background songs camera app scans through the entire focus range of the phone when you use that selective focus feature what's cool is this provides a little extra flexibility in post where you can have your subject in focus the background in focus or the entire shot in focus which is actually pretty sweet so why does the galaxy s7 suck well the downside here is the extra time spent capturing the shot the user has to hold still and the onboard optical image stabilization should do a pretty decent job of minimizing any handshake but if your subject is moving at all well there's not really much you can do to salvage that shot at number two and moving up to dual sensor phones we've got the iPhone 7 plus now portrait load on the iPhone actually uses the zoom lens to really create that nicely separated subject from background look an Apple delivers the most streamlined approach to creating a blurry background photo slide into portrait mode line up your subject and the effect should just pop into place when you've met the right criteria not a lot you can do in post but Apple will save a normal version of the photo and a photo with a blur effect in place so why does the iPhone 7 plus suck well with this experience being so on the rails you're pretty much at the mercy of Apple's camera app not enough light in your shot no blur too close or too far nobler and relying on the zoom lens mean some folks won't have arms long enough to take a rear camera selfie while utilizing the system and at number 1 we've got Huawei in honor all right this is kind of a cheat as we're highlighting the entire range of Huawei phones from the 6x to the mate 9 but using two sensors with matched focal length lenses really does create the most flexible system for dialing in the amount of software blur we want to see in the background in operation from your main composition window you hit one little icon and then you just kind of shoot how you normally would in any other auto mode then when looking back at your photos you can dial in the amount of blur you'd like to see with this handy little slider which tries to emulate the aperture that we'd see on a DSLR once you've got it where you want it the phone saves a new copy of that photos leaving the original int active you decide you want to edit it again in the future so why is it mate 9 suck well like most things on the Huawei camera app it really does involve just a little bit more user participation than some of the other systems we've taken a look at yet kind of do need to play around with it just a little bit more but it having finer control means we should be able to achieve that happy balance between your subjects popping off the background and not having too much of that really fake looking software blur degrading your shot it's still totally true that a camera with a larger sensor and good glass will still win out over smartphones with multiple sensors or software tricks but I wouldn't be so quick to write off software blur on any of these platforms once you understand the strengths and weaknesses that each phone has to provide I think you're likely to find you can capture some really interesting images and if you've been playing around with the blur features on your smartphone drop us a link down below this video what do you like what don't you like I'd love to get into an exchange of people creating content that kind of stuff I think it's fun as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for more rambling vloggy videos like these and help us out with some sharing on your favorite social networks for pocket now I'm Juan Carlos bag now so I'm gadget guy on Twitter and Instagram and I will catch you all on the next video boghei