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Introducing: Kino. Our take on pro video for iPhone.
Beautiful video made easy. One-tap cinematic color, perfect motion, and tons of pro features — great for film pros, but simple enough for the rest of us.
And... we have a few surprises:
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Reddit user ibreakphotos discovers that Samsung's 'Space Zoom' simply replaces user's moon photos with higher-res images of the moon through a clever testing process.
teddit.net/r/Android/comment…
This isn't computational photography — it's inserting imagery that simply isn't there.
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We recorded an iPhone’s front facing TrueDepth camera doing Face ID with an infrared-senstive camera:
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incorrect: on reddit you can see how the source image does not contain any detail that is being 'enhanced': there's simply image substitution happening here.
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as you can see in the reddit test it is quite literally not 'for real', it's just substituting a moon texture. If the moon gains a crater tomorrow, it won't be there.
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We saw a lot of attention yesterday as people used Halide to take photos of the eerie orange skies in places hit by wildfires.
We got significantly higher downloads.
It feels wrong to benefit from this, so we are donating yesterday's sales to our local Wildfire Relief Fund.
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We had concerns that the iPhone 14 Pro’s 48 megapixels would come at the expense of ‘depth’; that its sensor wouldn’t render images as nicely or capture enough dynamic range.
Here’s @sdw's RAW vs. an edit.
This camera is incredible.
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This is still Apple's very best video. It makes you want to buy an iPhone XS right now.
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Genuinely thrilled to see the return of the best, most pleasing camera arrangement on iPhone 😌
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Today, we are launching something unlike any tech product in 2024: a product that uses zero AI and zero computational photography to produce natural, film-like photos.
We call it Process Zero.
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Not completely fair to say this was 'shot on iPhone' without mentioning the expensive and massive fusion reactor required to light it (the sun)
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iPhone isn't a phone that can take photos anymore.
It's a camera that can make phone calls.
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We are SO proud and overwhelmed. We won the Apple Design Award for visuals and graphics 🥳 #WWDC22
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Many people are saying that with all the extra equipment, it's unrealistic and bad to say the keynote was shot on iPhone—since you can't easily get this result.
That should be inspiring: it shows how lighting your shots well is much more important than having the newest camera.
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There’s a lot of info to digest from the keynote, so here’s our summary of all the changes and new features of iPhone 16 and 16 Pro cameras in this quick thread ⬇️
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Making a camera app for iPad, we realized we had to think about our impact on the environment
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Shadow recovery on a ProRAW shot taken with the latest Halide beta.
This is just... wow.
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it’s not a photo! This is pretty cool actually: it uses a pattern of dots projected in infrared. Those dots are randomized per iPhone, so even if someone somehow extracted your dot pattern, they couldn’t reconstruct any facial data with it.
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Here's how a 12 megapixel image stacks up relative to the iPhone 14 Pro's resolution vs a 48 megapixel image:
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Would people be interested in a detailed take from us on the "new iPhones take worse photos" question that's been making the rounds?
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We're sure someone at Apple probably thought nobody would notice this, but... we do.
The iPhone 13 Pro camera arrays' flash LEDs are in a different orientation than the iPhone 12 Pro's 👁 - it is now stacked horizontally rather than vertically.
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iPhone 11 Pro vs. iPhone 14 Pro
Funny to think we once thought the 11 Pro's camera array was huge.
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Beyond all the news, it's telling that Apple has dropped the ultra-wide camera and barely any press has called it out.
A thinner iPad requires giving up on a better camera; Apple has made its priorities clear.
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You can see this product video was shot on iPhone — what other kind of camera would’ve been able to fit through the Mac mini’s Thunderbolt port like that?
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“Sensor-shift OIS” in your iPhone moves around the entire sensor to counteract image shake for sharper shots.
Seeing it in action is wild:
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Here’s a little overview of how the new Camera Control works on iPhone 16: 🧵
Pressing it opens the Camera app. Click again to take a shot. 1/4
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Introducing Orion: A display that can go with you anywhere.
Turn your iPad into an HDMI monitor for cameras, consoles and more.
Available now — for free. lux.camera/meet-orion
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And that’s it for #WWDC22!
Thanks for the good times, Craig! (and all the other amazing people we met at Apple Park and those that worked so hard to make it happen.❤️)
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The original iPhone next to iPhone 13 Pro Max.
The camera on the original iPhone is about 20% smaller than the TrueTone flash on iPhone 13 Pro. Let that sink in for a moment.
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The most important bits of the #AppleEvent and iPhone Cameras:
- iPhone 15: Gets a camera upgrade. 48MP, mostly as a 24MP capture mode. Toggles in the camera app with a 'HEIC MAX' button. Apps like Halide can possibly capture (non-Pro) RAW and 48 MP.
- next up: iPhone 15 Pro: 🧵
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There is, in fact, such a thing as a real picture. It’s called RAW.
‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec trib.al/C0kNwJR
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We've gotten some questions about how the iPhone 14 Pro 48 megapixel camera will work. A little thread:
Our information so far says the regular camera app will continue to take 12 megapixel photos (even with the new 48 megapixel Wide camera).
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Specifically, the WWDC invite resembles what is called a pancake lens array (🥞yum!), which is often used in... VR goggles.
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It's here: our iPhone 14 Pro camera review. There's far more than 48 MP here: Apple significantly changed all the cameras on their latest iPhone.
Is it a small step, or a huge leap? @sdw goes through every aspect to showcase the latest camera from Apple. lux.camera/iphone-14-pro-cam…
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After 18 months of work, we're excited to launch Halide Mark II.
Not just Halide's biggest update yet, but a whole new app.
If you're an existing user, this all-new app is... free. What?! Yep. Keep reading:
blog.halide.cam/introducing-…
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iPhone 15 Pro takes home the well-deserved @mkbhd Best Camera award of 2023. We agree: it's a very, very good year for photo and video on iPhone.
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Please, no! iOS is great at managing background activity so apps are efficient.
Halide, for instance, takes no power in the background but only activates when ready to take photos. If you force apps to open from scratch, it uses much more resources and battery.
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If the new iPad Pro would be just as thick as the last generation, it'd basically lose its camera bump entirely.
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There's a lot of iPhone 13 news this week, but it's good to remember all iPhones are pretty great cameras.
Let's see some of your iPhone photos to prove that you don't need the iPhone 13 Pro Max to take a great shot 📸
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We'll repeat this until we're blue in the face:
📢 Camera quality is not measured in megapixels.
The 108MP Samsung Note looks awful here.
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Big news: the latest iOS 15 beta automatically removes the famous 'green orb' lens flares we are so used to on iPhones. Thoughts?
@halidecamera teddit.net/r/iOSBeta/comment… interesting... What do you think? Remove or embrace lens flares? 😅
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Process Zero is a new mode in Halide that skips over the standard iPhone image processing.
It produces photos with more detail and allows the photographer greater control over lighting and exposure. This is not a photo filter— it develops photos at the raw sensor-data level.
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This image, which is being shared as an example of “iPhone photo processing going crazy”, is almost 100% certain to be a fake and not an iPhone camera glitch.
Exposure merging happens, but on a timescale that is far shorter than one that allows pose changes as seen here.
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Living inside your iPhone camera is something called 'OIS' (optical image stabilization): a small mechanism that moves the sensor hundreds of times per second to make sure you get a sharp shot.
Here's what it looks like in action:
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We've got something big coming.
#HalideMKII
halide.cam/mkii/
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Zero Shutter Lag. Responsive Capture. Extended HDR support. All that and more of the latest iOS 17 features, all packed into Halide 1.12.
And it's out now — dig in! lux.camera/halide-for-ios-17…
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Meet our new app: Spectre. spectre.cam
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One of our favorite Youtubers, @mkbhd, does a great comparison of all smartphone portrait modes and a Hasselblad X1D. piped.video/watch?v=xhybjeRc…
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This is big: Halide 2.16 is here, featuring one thing we never thought would happen, but it did:
You can now open Halide from the Lock Screen - even when iPhone is locked! 🥳 Plus, iOS 18 support, dark mode icons, and more. Available now!
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Wow: the latest issue of @wallpapermag features a never-before-seen look inside Apple's design studio, including some up-close shots of how the iPhone 13 Pro camera module was designed. apple.news/IwgCQXoxXQrKqsc52…
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We're preparing an awesome update for iPhone 14 & iPhone 14 Pro — we're very excited to get it into your hands.
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iPhone XS does not apply a skin smoothing or beautification filter. What people see is an artifact of how differently the XS camera takes photos. We're working on a detailed article explaining it in depth which will be out soon.
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Halide 2.9 is out now!
This is a big one. Literally.
48MP ProRAW with maximum control. Fast Quick-Toggle between 48 and 12 MP capture. Quick 48MP HEIC / JPEG shooting... and more.
halide.cam/download
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We're proud, amazed and just absolutely stoked to be chosen as @Apple's iPhone App of the YEAR with Spectre! apple.com/newsroom/2019/12/a…
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We bust myths about the new iPhone XS sensor and Smart HDR, as well as showcasing some very cool new tech in our latest deep dive:
iPhone XS: Why It's A Whole New Camera: blog.halide.cam/iphone-xs-wh…
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According to Stu Maschwitz at @prolost the "Let Loose" Apple iPad event was shot entirely on iPhone — but with external lenses. Pretty interesting setup.
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Announcing Halide Sto-Lides, a new and innovative way to stay in touch with the people and companies that matter most in your life while staying primed for uncompromising manual photography.
Easily share shots with the new top shutter button. We think you'll love it.
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Thanks to Halide's Technical Readout we know that the #iPhone11 and #iPhone11Pro sensors have over 30% higher max ISO — allowing them to be far more sensitive in low light.
Stay tuned for our full hardware spec breakdown. Some very interesting things in there. 🔩👀
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