36 Macworld • October 2019APPLE SPECIAL EVENTknow, because it’s equipped with plenty of motion
sensors – it will let you take even longer exposures,
which would be handy for outdoor night shoots, for
example. So there’s more to Night Mode than you
might have thought.QuickTake videos, wider selfies, and more
While the addition of the ultra wide camera and
Night Mode are the headline features, there are
plenty of other additions to the Camera app with
the iPhone 11. Here’s a quick look:- The new QuickTake video mode lets you hold
down the shutter button in still‑image mode in
order to quickly shoot some video for as long as
you keep the button pressed. What Apple didn’t
show on stage is that if you swipe that button to
the right, you can ‘lock’ video recording on, so it
continues even after you lift your finger. And if
you swipe the shutter to the left, you can still take
a giant pile of photos in Burst mode – the feature
that used to be triggered if you held your finger
on the shutter. (Also, longtime Apple watchers
will recognize the QuickTake name – before it was
an iPhone feature, it was the name of Apple’s
pioneering digital camera.) - The iPhone XR had to fake portrait mode using
machine learning to make guesses about depth,
but its successor, the iPhone 11, has a second
camera. That means it can finally do the real thing
by using the parallax between the two cameras
36 Macworld • October 2019
APPLE SPECIAL EVENT
know, because it’s equipped with plenty of motion
sensors – it will let you take even longer exposures,
which would be handy for outdoor night shoots, for
example. So there’s more to Night Mode than you
might have thought.QuickTake videos, wider selfies, and more
While the addition of the ultra wide camera and
Night Mode are the headline features, there are
plenty of other additions to the Camera app with
the iPhone 11. Here’s a quick look:- ThenewQuickTakevideomodeletsyouhold
downtheshutterbuttoninstill‑image mode in
order to quickly shoot some video for as long as
you keep the button pressed. What Apple didn’t
show on stage is that if you swipe that button to
the right, you can ‘lock’ video recording on, so it
continues even after you lift your finger. And if
you swipe the shutter to the left, you can still take
a giant pile of photos in Burst mode – the feature
that used to be triggered if you held your finger
on the shutter. (Also, longtime Apple watchers
will recognize the QuickTake name – before it was
an iPhone feature, it was the name of Apple’s
pioneering digital camera.) - The iPhone XR had to fake portrait mode using
machine learning to make guesses about depth,
but its successor, the iPhone 11, has a second
camera. That means it can finally do the real thing
by using the parallax between the two cameras