2023-09-19 16:36:25
The arrival of iOS 17 opened the door to a series of application updates that took advantage of the system’s new features to implement new features and improvements. One of them was the Halidefamous photography app for iPhones, which has reached version 2.12.
The first new feature this time is the feature Zero Shutter Lag (something like “Zero shutter delay”). Exclusive to iOS 17, it causes the iPhone to automatically start capturing images as soon as the user starts a session on Halide, temporarily saving them in memory.
This way, the app can know exactly which image the camera sensor was capturing at the time the user tapped the shutter, avoiding results that differ from what was previously seen on the camera’s display. This difference (of a thousandth of a second) between the input of the user and capturing the image might very well ruin an entire click.
The app’s developers, however, point out that ZSL does not work with photos taken with a manual exposure setting (shutter speed and ISO). Images captured with the flash will also not be covered by this trick, as for it to work, the light would have to be on all the time.
There is also a new option in the app settings called “Prioritize Responsiveness” (something like “Prioritize Responsiveness”), which slows down image processing if the user starts capturing several in sequence. This way, you can capture multiple photos in sequence without sacrificing technologies like Deep Fusion and Smart HDRHigh dynamic rangeor large dynamic range.”>1.
It is worth noting that, since 2019, Halide has another very similar option simply called “Smart Processing” (“Intelligent Processing”), which completely disables this type of processing if the user starts taking several photos one following the other so as not to overload the device. Normally, the iPhone would just prevent the user from capturing new images until the previous photos are processed.
Since 2020, for HDR photos, the iPhone has been able to store extra brightness information in the photos themselves. However, app developers had no way to show parts of a photo in HDR in their apps. With iOS 17, that changed.
Halide, of course, took advantage of this change. However, in order not to ruin the look of a photo with exaggerated HDR, the app only shows photos with this extra brightness in the full display, and not in the preview. thumbnail.
In addition to all these features, the new version of Halide also includes traditional bug fixes and performance improvements. The developers also said that they are testing a feature called “Deferred Processing” (something like “Deferred processing”), which allows iOS 17 to save an image “in half” and finish processing it later. This news, however, does not have a date to arrive.
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