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Can anyone tell me what the hyperfocal distance and the hyperfocal near limit are from the main lens of iPhone 15. I take landscape photos that I want everything in focus. I find the wide-angle lens useless because it's very poor quality visually. And the zooms equally so since they are only 12 MB.
iPhone 15, iOS 18
For iPhone 15, I found this by googling "iphone 15 camera lens specs"
Wikipedia describes Hyperfocal distance here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocal_distance
giving this:
where
H is the hyperfocal distance;
f is the focal length of the lens;
N is f-number (f/D for aperture diameter D); and
c is the circle of confusion limit.
Also from Google, the circle of confusion for an iPhone is 4μm. (It's 25μm for my full frame Nikon.)
The near limit is H/2
Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately when I used depth of field calculators online they give a different result depending on the camera manufacturer. And there was none for the iPhone 15 main camera. But I hope what Wikipedia says is correct, that once you have the hyper focal distance, everything from infinity to half of that is in focus. But everything depends on what is considered acceptable sharpness.
But the simplest thing for me is just to use stacking focus in Photoshop and not worry about all of that. On the Nikon F2 I used to use, all of its lenses showed precisely the region that you would be in focus depending on the aperture. On every individual lens. It would be nice if Apple would allow us to just touch a button and set us at the hyper focal distance. If any Apple engineers are reading this — why don't you help us out.
But the main lens of the iPhone 15 with its 48 megapixels is twice what I could get out of scanning the slides from my Nikon F2 — so I'm happy.
Hyperfocal distance iPhone 15
