The iPhone 11's Deep Fusion Camera is Now in the iOS 13 Developer Beta

Apple's Deep Fusion photography system has arrived in the latest developer betas of iOS 13, hopefully hinting that it will ship for the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro soon. From a report: To refresh your memory, Deep Fusion is a new image processing pipeline for medium-light images, which Apple senior VP Phil Schiller called "computational photography mad science" when he introduced it onstage. But like much of iOS 13, Deep Fusion wasn't ready when the phones arrived two weeks ago. And although the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro have extremely impressive cameras, Deep Fusion's is meant to offer a massive step forward in indoor and medium-lighting situations. And since so many photos are taken indoors and in medium light, we're looking forward to testing it.

[...] With Deep Fusion, the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro cameras will have three modes of operation that automatically kick in based on light levels and the lens you're using: The standard wide angle lens will use Apple's enhanced Smart HDR for bright to medium-light scenes, with Deep Fusion kicking in for medium to low light, and Night mode coming on for dark scenes. The tele lens will mostly use Deep Fusion, with Smart HDR only taking over for very bright scenes, and Night mode for very dark scenes. The ultrawide will always use Smart HDR, as it does not support either Deep Fusion or Night mode.

Impressive

[110010001000]

It is amazing what they (the market in general) have been doing with mobile phone cameras.

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[SuperKendall]

I could not help but laugh at this line:

Here's another Deep Fusion image of a beautiful person in a sweater from Apple.

I'm going to go on a trip and plan to instal the beta OS just so I can try out deep fusion in real situations... at least it's a point release beta, so it's not TOO insane an idea to install on a primary phone.

Side-by-side comparison?

[swirlingbrain]

If you can't see a side-by-side comparison of pics taken with and without the feature at the user's discretion, how can you know it's actually doing anything at all and not just a placebo effect? See, our pictures are so much better than your low-life camera because we say so!

Re: Side-by-side comparison?

[tysonedwards]

That is the part that really surprises me. They offered no A/B images for this feature as they did everything else, and when it makes its way to the public, it is an always on feature so you canâ(TM)t make one either. The only way to see would be by having a second non-upgraded phone and take the two pictures back to back. Everything else, they showed how much better it is, but here for a camera which is the definition of show, time to tell alone.

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[Arkham]

I am sure the Youtube reviewers will take care of this. Here's 13.1, here's 13.2, same phone, same lighting, compare the results.

In a perfect world you could disable the computation photography if you chose to do so. Then again, you should in theory be able to to shoot in raw if you chose to do so, but really, that's a bad idea for 99% of mobile phone users.

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[SuperKendall]

Turns out that enabling the "capture photos outside the frame" feature of Camper.app settings will disable Deep Fusion - so you can take a picture with that setting off and then on to have comparison photos.

What then, is "deep fusion"??

[BAReFO0t]

The markedroid's blurb is obviously meant for the retarded target group, so he doesn't get labled as "geeky and manly".

Is Deep Fusion "Pro"?

[butchersong]

I'm not interested unless it's Pro.

Great!

[b0bby]

Even though I won't be buying an iPhone, the race to improve phone cameras will doubtless lead to better Android cameras by the time I'm next upgrading. Other than pictures, the stuff I use a phone for wouldn't tax any mid range phone, so the more that the camera tech trickles down the happier I'll be.

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[thesupraman]

Ulikely, as this seems to basically be an adoption of what android, and initially google, has been doing for some time.

Yet again it is a case of Apple trying to go all market-viral with a feature that is commonly available in other places, but theirs must be revolutionary because... Apple.

Apple is playing catchup big time with cameras at present.