{"id":1928,"date":"2025-11-15T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:22:58","slug":"the-sandmarc-2x-telephoto-lens-is-great-for-iphone-portrait-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/the-sandmarc-2x-telephoto-lens-is-great-for-iphone-portrait-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sandmarc 2x Telephoto lens is great for iPhone portrait photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/The-Sandmarc-2x-Telephoto-lens-is-a-great-option-for-taking-portrait-photos-with-the-iPhone.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>The iPhone\u2019s Portrait mode uses computational photography to simulate the shallow depth of field of a digital SLR or mirrorless camera with a larger sensor. It\u2019s evolved from a very crude tool into something which is now pretty convincing, but it\u2019s still no substitute for the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>There are some circumstances in which you can get genuine shallow-ish depth of field with an iPhone shot, but these are very limited as we\u2019ll discuss. The Sandmarc 2x telephoto lens is a much more practical way to get true optical blurring when shooting portraits \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"iphone,iphone-photography,review\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1027881\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/11\/15\/the-sandmarc-2x-telephoto-lens-is-great-for-iphone-portrait-photos\/#more-1027881\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone\u2019s Portrait mode uses computational photography to simulate the shallow depth of field of a digital SLR or mirrorless camera with a larger sensor. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/the-sandmarc-2x-telephoto-lens-is-great-for-iphone-portrait-photos\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}