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iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, A Huge Leap

At Lux, we make a camera app. We have been taking thousands of iPhone photos every month since we launched our app five years ago, and we know a thing or two about smartphone cameras. This is our deep dive into iPhone 14 Pro — not the phone, the iPod, or the internet communicator — but the camera.

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Halide 2.11: Field Tested in the Galapagos

Normally we share updates through long articles, but writing about photography is like dancing about math. What if we share it in a video? (Spoiler: we are not launching a video app.) If you dig the new format, let us know in the video comments or through Halide@mastodon.social
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iPhone 14 Pro Camera Preview: The Hardware Changes

This time of the year always excites us: it brings a look at what’s new in iPhone photography. First up is our brief look at the technical specifications of the new iPhone 14 Pro cameras. Our next post field tests the new cameras and their output. Whether you are a first-time reader or a long time listener, we promise an exciting few weeks.
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Halide 2.7: It’s A Keeper

We put care into making Halide an incredible app for taking photos. This update is different, however: instead of focusing on how you take photos, we've worked on radically improving how we keep your photos.

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iPhone 13 Pro: The Edge of Intelligent Photography

The camera wizards of Lux take a deep dive into the iPhone 13 Pro — read the changes, strengths, and quirks of the smartest iPhone camera yet.
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iPhone Macro: A Big Day for Small Things

The iPhone 13 Pro features a new camera capable of focusing closer than ever before. Let's take a tour of what this lens unlocks, some clever details you might miss in its implementation, why its "automatic" nature can catch you off guard, and much more.
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iPhone 13 Pro Camera Preview: The Hardware Changes

Here at Lux, we take a deep dive each year into what's new with iPhone cameras. First up is our brief look at the technical specifications of the new iPhone 13 Pro cameras.
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Going big: Making the Halide for iPad video

In April, we were finishing a big update: Halide was coming to the iPad. This update deserved an exciting video to really highlight everything this update to Halide had to offer. Here's how it was made.
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Lux Year 4: Doubling Down

A look into year four at Lux — The most intense year yet, with Halide Mark II's launch, a global pandemic and much more.
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The M1 iPad Pro Cameras

It's a bit of a tradition here at Lux to take a deep dive into the latest iPhone camera hardware. Let's take look at what's new with the M1 iPad Pro cameras. In taking a quick look at what's new, we'll share a discovery: your iPad has a superpower that not even Apple has told you about.
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This is Big: Halide for iPad

Meet Halide for iPad. An all-new app for the big screen. An interface made from scratch for iPad, and tons of little details you’re going to love.
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The Long Term iPhone 12 Camera Review

After months of intense use and testing, our resident photographer Sebastiaan reviews how the iPhone 12 stacks up as a camera.
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Welcome to Lux

Allow us to to reintroduce ourselves. We're Lux, a tiny studio you might know from our photography apps, Halide and Spectre, or our obsessive articles on photography. Until now, we published though Medium, but today everything changes.

First, a little history.
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Understanding ProRAW

We make the most popular RAW camera for iPhone, so when Apple revealed their new ProRAW image format, we were beyond excited.

Then they announced it’s coming to the built-in camera app. Why would Apple cram a complicated feature into an app meant for everyone?

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The iPhone 12 Pro Max: Real Pro Photography

At Halide HQ, we’ve been busily working away on a very deep, technical analysis of what’s new in iPhone 12 cameras this year. All four of ’em. On Friday, we got our hands on the final iPhones in this year’s line-up, the iPhone 12 mini and the iPhone 12 Pro Max.

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iPhone 12 Pro Max Preview: The Camera Hardware Changes

It’s that time again. Every year, we take a deep dive into what is new in the iPhone camera. This year is special: Apple is introducing several new cameras in the iPhone 12 and a whole new sensor in the iPhone 12 Pro Max In this post, we’ll take a quick look at what is new in the flagship of iPhone photography: the iPhone 12 Pro Max.