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Just how good are Randy Spears Archivesthe iPhone 7 Plus' dual rear cameras? Good enough for Sports Illustratedand ESPNphotographers to shoot with and proudly publish online.

On Sunday, Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted out a link to Sports Illustratedwith photos of the Titans vs. Vikings NFL game taken by the publication's photographer David. E. Klutho.

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Then on Monday, Cook tweeted out another link to ESPNwith photos of the U.S. Open shot by the publication's photographer Landon Nordeman.

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It doesn't take a professional photographer to decode what Cook is saying: The iPhone 7 Plus' cameras rockand can shoot sports, one of the more challenging types of action to capture, what with all the moving athletes and tiny little balls flying through the air.

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Touchdown iPhone 7! First photos on @SInow https://t.co/BHXoA83ZgU

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) September 11, 2016

.@ESPN serves up iPhone 7 shots from the #usopen 🎾https://t.co/ZmIHilvK4x

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) September 12, 2016

The iPhone 7 Plus is the first iPhone with dual 12-megapixel rear cameras. One camera is a standard wide-angle lens and the second camera is a telephoto lens that allows for up to 2x optical zoom. It's also capable of up to 10x digital zoom.

With a new image signal processor that's capable of calculating over 100 billion operations in 25 milliseconds and improved lenses that let in more light, the iPhone 7 is reportedly capable of performing better in low light situations and producing photos with more accurate colors.

A software update that will be made available by the end of the year will also enable "Portrait" mode, which blurs out the background to render bokeh (the out of focus background that's the result of a large aperture -- that's a low f-stop number -- and shallower depth of field).

SI is the first outlet to publish photos #shotoniphone7plus!

📷 by David Klutho, more: https://t.co/TOsU6BgvY8 pic.twitter.com/cEvaXB9lZ4

— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) September 12, 2016

Don't believe it? Feast your eyes on some of these stunning photos:

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And here are some from the U.S. Open:

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Topics Apple iPhone Cameras

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