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Spoot: Spotted Early keeps aperture control in one place: one story so far. The section currently leads with “The iPhone 18 Pro's aperture is a four-trick pony: until you side-load”. Four clicks. Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every aperture control story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.

The iPhone 18 Pro's aperture is a four-trick pony: until you side-load
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The iPhone 18 Pro's aperture is a four-trick pony: until you side-load

Four clicks. That's the whole aperture dial on the iPhone 18 Pro's main camera in the native app: f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8, and f/4. It feels stingy for a variable iris that should be a playground. But here's the razor clam: Apple's SDK lets third-party apps grab granular control, and BlackMagic's free Camera app is already poking at it. So the hardware isn't the limit; the software just plays it shy. I love that. It turns a spec-sheet footnote into a dare for developers. Who is this for? Anyone who wants their phone to stop pretending a four-step ladder is a staircase. If you're hunting for other hardware that hides its best tricks, Honor's new flagship, with that Arri-assisted camera, is worth a peek.