Jake Kastrenakes

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The Vergecast · The folding iPhone Duo is finally here | The Vergecast Livestream · 9 Sep 2026 podcast

I think the single most interesting thing is the camera, which they announced the main camera now has what they called a variable aperture glass.

Dom

I think you are are uh one of the photography diehards on staff.

I'm curious for your thoughts on this.

Does this feel like it's going to be a meaningful change for photographers?

To me, this sort of feels confusing, but I I would love to hear your thoughts first.

My memory is that Samsung dropped that feature the next year.

It it if somebody should check me on that.

It might have been like shortly thereafter, but it did not last long.

So for for uh I should probably just break this down for those who are not like deep in the weeds and photography.

Standard smartphone cameras, they're just wide open all the time.

They're accepting as much light as possible, which is generally what you want on a teeny tiny sensor that needs a lot of light to get a good image.

Um, on a standard camera with a big piece of film or a larger sensor, you can close the aperture to let in less light and focus the light a little bit more.

That lets you get more things in focus and a uh a deeper

uh, you know, degree of sharpness throughout the image, lets you get things further in the distance into focus.

Um I think the the question for me is on a sensor that small, you're letting in less light.

At at what point i is that actually just gonna make the image so much worse that it's not worth using?

Um yeah.

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