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Longer lenses have another advantage in that they tend to blur the background.
It is also the ability to artistically blur the background of a shot, which is particularly useful for portraits.
They do things that make pocket cameras look like pretenders: they can blur the background, take lower-light shots without a flash and shoot with no shutter lag (the delay after you press the shutter button).
Thus far, expensive stand-alone cameras with great lenses have been the ones able to offer what is called "bokeh," a way to blur the background and focus on the subject in the foreground.
Example: If you have a 200mm lens, at say, f2.8, on a 35mm full frame sensor, and the subject is near you (2-3m), you can blur the background quite a lot.
It was a beautiful winter's day in Somerset but despite having plenty of light to play with I decided to have a wide-open aperture to give me a small depth of field and blur the background nicely.
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The two cameras work together to show the photo's main subject clearly while gently blurring the background.
For casual photographers, it offers features like Peripheral Defocus, which blurs the background while keeping the subject in sharp focus.
The dual camera set up allows for some now fairly standard features such as depth perception for artificially blurring the background of a portrait.
Smaller sensors, like the ones in all small, inexpensive cameras, may be terrible at blurring the background, but they're great at keeping everything in focus.
After reviewing hundreds of cameras, I can say with certainty that those with big sensors do the best at blurring the background.
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