While iphone 7 plus and a10 fusion can t take portrait lighting photos fast enough they could apply the effect in post production.
Stage light iphone 7 plus.
It brought professional level depth photography to the masses.
On iphone x and later and iphone 8 plus you can use the portrait lighting feature to apply studio quality lighting effects to your portrait mode images.
Choose from studio light to brighten facial features contour light for more dramatic directional lighting stage light to isolate your subject in the spotlight stage mono for stage light in.
All of apple s portrait lighting effects can be applied after the fact but stage light and its black and white companion are designed to be shot in camera and potentially removed or changed afterward if you want a good stage light photo expect to be shooting in stage light from the start and take a few test photos to see what your background is giving you for a matte.
What steve is referring to is something different.
Iphone 8 plus does the same for portrait lighting.
Iphones didn t have this capability outside of using third party external lenses until 2016 when apple introduced the iphone 7 plus.
Though it may lose out on additional a11 bionic specific advantages including those involving the face detection.
The iphone 7 and iphone 7 plus flashlight is no led maglight replacement but it will do in a great job in helping in times that you need a light source for iphone 7 and iphone 7 plus.
On a dslr or analog camera you can manually focus the lens on a subject while also capturing the surrounding out of focus elements.
Stage light and stage light mono the black and white version of stage light are available in the camera app s portrait mode feature on the iphone 7 plus iphone 8 plus and iphone x.
After that apple added portrait lighting on the iphone 8 plus a year later.
Stage lighting is nowhere near real time yet.