Tuubor

Affinity Designer, 55€ for life and something like 30€ for the iPad Pro. Simply beautiful.

headfull0wine said:

Simple math.
Apple is getting portrayed favourably as a friend to the arts by not appealing the increase. 

Increased Apple hardware sales. 
+
Increased Apple Music subscriptions
=
Apple makes more money than the difference in royalties. 

Yes. So what do we learn from this? Doing the right thing actually wins in the end. Every time. This is why Apple succeeds.

I’m in the creative business. I’m a musician, music teacher and a photographer. I also do computer graphics as a sort of hobby of mine.

Yesterday I was playing around with my 2nd gen iPad Pro and opened up Garageband. I rarely use it because I haven’t done much recording stuff lately. I got notifications about new soundpacks from Apple and started listening to the previews. Those demo songs sounded truly awesome and I was again blown away at how good the speakers sounded on the iPad. There were a ton of new soundpacks and I downloaded them all. Because why not? They were free! Like Garageband. It made me consider recording and composing stuff on the iPad again. Garageband has a ton of really great features and you can even combine sounds from different applications and do all sorts of cool stuff. Really high quality and easy to get started stuff. It is all over iOS. All over the hardware. I use my iPad daily to do most of my work and every day it is a delight. The quality and thought that goes into Apple products really shines through. I know I paid for it all in the price of the product but the device is like an endless chest of creative wonders. If that even makes sense. I feel like a kid in the candy store that has all of the flavours to choose from.

There is so much else ”free” stuff from Apple like Pages, Numbers, Keynote and whatnot. Apple devices truly are for the creative people. The technology gets out of the way of getting stuff done. This and everything else is what you pay for in an Apple product. What other vendor has this??

Never have I once regretted spending over 1300€ for my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. There is something really powerful in these products that goes way beyond the surface. You can’t see the value by estimating the cost of the components or comparing specsheets. It is not in the numbers. It really takes effort to realize what makes Apple products so great. The lazy people keep comparing specs and keep believing in conspiracy theories. It is the easy way of thinking. Someone once said that quality is hard to define but you know when you have it.

CheeseFreeze said:

Tuubor said:

What equipment did he use to get the shallow depth of field for video? The article also mentions iOS 12.1. having the ability to ”dynamically adjust perceived depth in a photo or video in real-time using the built-in Camera app”, but that is not possible in video. For video it would be a game changer. 
 

There’s one shot in the video where the guy is holding the phone close by (in focus) and the rest is blurred. It’s a smart trick - with such a small sensor you really need to bring the subject extremely close to the lens to have the sense of ‘depth of field’.

But other than that I think the description in the article is wrong - you can’t do it with video.

Yes but the whole video has parts where there is shallow depth of field that is not possible on a smartphone. Look closer. Almost every scene or cut has some sort of shallow depth of field that is only possible with a large aperture. 

What equipment did he use to get the shallow depth of field for video? The article also mentions iOS 12.1. having the ability to ”dynamically adjust perceived depth in a photo or video in real-time using the built-in Camera app”, but that is not possible in video. For video it would be a game changer.