Could this feature make up for a single rear camera on the Galaxy S9?

Terminal updated: December 5th, 2017 at xx:03 UTC+01:00

A recent report suggested that a dual rear camera setup could be exclusive to the Galaxy S9+, with the regular Galaxy S9 featuring only a single camera at the back. If true, information technology would exist a considerable difference from Samsung's usual tradition, which has simply seen the visitor reduce brandish and battery size on the smaller model of a new flagship, keeping all other features the same across both regular and Plus/edge models.

While there's no telling what reasons (price-cutting, making infinite for a bigger bombardment and/or a display with reduced bezels, etc.) would result in Samsung deciding to limit the regular S9 to a single camera, there's one feature that would somewhat make up for the lack of dual cameras. No, I'thousand non talking about a software mode to mimic Live Focus photos.

Impressive bokeh without a second rear camera?

If y'all saw the recent announcement of Samsung's new clamshell flagship, the W2018, in Cathay, yous probably know that i of the highlights of the device is a rear camera with f/ane.5 aperture. The widest (or largest) aperture we have seen on a smartphone camera is probably the f/one.half dozen lens on the LG V30, and those who know nearly cameras know that a wider discontinuity makes for an increased bokeh result. In simpler terms, the wider the aperture, higher the corporeality of blur in the subject's groundwork when a photo is captured (and also, more than light).

Could this feature make up for a single rear camera on the Galaxy S9?

Google is already using software for capturing portrait photos with the single rear camera on the new Pixel phones, and while Samsung probably won't offer a portrait mode on the S9 if it has only 1 rear camera sensor, an f/1.4 or f/1.5 lens would automatically hateful better bokeh upshot in photos. The S9, in fact, may fifty-fifty have an f/1.four lens, if one rumor is to be believed. That could go some way in consoling buyers of the non-Plus model while not fully making up for the fact that they're getting bottom hardware simply considering they opted for the more than meaty of Samsung's new flagship duo.

Of course, all this depends on the visitor actually using a lens with such a wide aperture on the Galaxy S9. Maybe both models volition have dual rear cameras, with the primary sensors on each also having an f/ 1.4 or 1.5 lens, although the latter is unlikely if Samsung intends to go on Alive Focus as i of the main attractions of a dual photographic camera setup. Or, well, an f/one.4 or f/1.5 lens won't really make much of a difference for background blur/depth-of-field compared to the f/1.7 lenses that Samsung flagships currently employ, and the not-Plus Galaxy S9 volition only cease up offering less than its Plus counterpart without annihilation but a lower price to make up for it.

We volition only have to wait and see.

Disclaimer: This commodity is an opinion post that is simply speculating almost what could happen. SamMobile doesn't take information on the Galaxy S9's camera, and this post should not be taken as a Galaxy S9 leak or rumor.