Adam Kos With each new generation of iPhone, with each new iOSis Apple trying to improve the photography skills of their devices. It is not always possible to change the hardware, because nowadays the software is perhaps more important. And that's what the Halide application is now trying to break.
Even though the optics and sensor are still the same, the result is with the new iOS better. How is that possible? Smart algorithms adapt, improve, and learn. A master at this is Samsung. He, although he would of course like to, typically releases a new line of top smartphones Galaxy S, whose optics are great on paper, but the results don't match them. They then try to improve them with software updates.
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Even with relatively bad hardware, you can take a good photo if good software is present. But do we want it? Do we want so many calculations behind the result? If so, we can be satisfied with the fact that even in total night we can actually see what we are photographing. But then there is the second group of mobile photographers who want maximum realism without unnecessary software games. And there is an application for them Halide.
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Photos without artificial embellishments
This award-winning app has been updated to version 2.15, which includes a new feature that allows users to take photos without any image processing for a more natural-looking result. It's called Process Zero and it uses no artificial intelligence, no advanced algorithms, no computational photography. It simply offers the exact opposite of what companies are now trying to push on customers.
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Process Zero uses a fast process based on a single exposure RAW file. The file itself is a 12 megapixel image plus a RAW DNG file for further editing. It works fast, even up to 25x faster than when you shoot in ProRAW. However, due to its characteristics, the result may have significant graininess, color aberrations, and you will hardly be able to use it in low light. Simply, taking pictures with it should look like in times long gone.
Interestingly, if you shoot in RAW, you can also apply Process Zero to these images in the app, at different exposure levels. The developers claim that the algorithms of their new feature AppThey are beneficial for the vast majority of iPhone users because they make the result look really good. But if they simply want to see what the photo would look like without them, they now have the option to do so.
Optics company Samsung it's great on paper and the results match it. I compared iPhone 15 pro max a Samsung galaxy s24 ultra a Samsung won almost by a wide margin.