How the iPhone’s New Ultrawide Lens Actually Works (and When You Should Use It)

Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images When I was in film school, we still used actual film cameras for the first couple of semesters. And the first camera I used was a manually wound 16mm Bolex that featured three interchangeable lenses: a 50-mm telephoto lens, a 25-mm standard lens, and 10-mm wide-angle lens.

A camera with a 13-mm focal length is considered very wide angle, which means it has a huge field of view. A lens with a longer focal length has a narrower field of view and more magnification, while a shorter focal length is a much wider, less detailed shot. In fact, the iPhone 11’s ultrawide lens captures a 120-degree field of view. For comparison, the average human eye has a 135-degree field of view.

The ultrawide lens creates four times the viewing area of older model cameras, allowing you to create images you could never have managed before, like staggering landscape photos with almost the entire view your eye sees captured in the frame. The wide lens also means a better field of view closer to the lens, such as pictures from the party last weekend.

Photographer Scott Stein, with CNET, used the ultrawide lens to create some stunning cityscapes of New York, including both images with expansive views and with uniquely distorted perspectives. Patrick Holland, also with CNET, used his iPhone 11 to demonstrate how the wide-angle lens can create drama as it creates depth by taking a downward-looking shot of his cat’s face in a food bowl.

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