# Are there "real" cameras that create the Portrait Mode effects of iPhones? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 16, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-real-cameras-that-create-the-portrait-mode-effects-of-iphones/962919 "2022-04-16T15:19:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-real-cameras-that-create-the-portrait-mode-effects-of-iphones/962919/21 "2022-04-17T13:35:19Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > You should use this as an excuse to get some 50mm f/0.95 lens and get that effect the natural way. I am getting the effect with a 50 mm f/1.0. That’s close enough! Though I did have a lens at work that was somewhere around 50 mm focal length, and it was f/0.6. Sadly, it was a single lens element designed for 610 nm red light, so of course no chromatic aberration correction, and probably poor performance off axis. And I found an oil immersion microscope objective design online that gives f/0.2, which was billed as quite an achievement, but I don’t like the idea of putting oil on my APS-C! ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-real-cameras-that-create-the-portrait-mode-effects-of-iphones/962919/22 "2022-04-17T13:38:16Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > Remember Body Worlds? I thought this was amazing! There was a rider on a horse that had to be seen to be believed. Not to tangle our conversation too much, but I think this would have been a great place to apply limited depth of field. Kind of a bokeh-morte. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-real-cameras-that-create-the-portrait-mode-effects-of-iphones/962919/23 "2022-04-17T14:03:10Z")
BTW for some extreme applications, computational photography might be the way to go. If you need a 50mm, f/0.2 lens, setting “F-Stop” to 0.2 and “Focal length” to 50 mm on the computer works, sure enough. But good luck building one (out of a huge flawless diamond or whatever), better just to create the effect using a multi-camera setup. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-real-cameras-that-create-the-portrait-mode-effects-of-iphones/962919.md?page=1)