Category: Halide

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November 1, 2022

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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September 14, 2022

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
March 1, 2022

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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February 2, 2022

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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October 6, 2021

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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May 26, 2021

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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  • Halide
May 18, 2021

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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  • Halide
October 22, 2020

Pro. Camera. Action. Introducing Halide Mark II

After eighteen months of work, today we’re excited to announce a new photography app. It takes everything we’ve learned since launching the acclaimed manual photography app, Halide, and combines it with the technology developed for Spectre, Apple’s 2019’s iPhone App of the Year. We call this new app Halide Mark II.
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  • Halide
March 30, 2020

Halide 1.16: Better RAW, Three Ways

2020 is shaping up to be an eventful year, and we’ve been hard at work in 2020 on new features for Halide, Spectre, and beyond. Today we’re breaking our silence with our latest update: here’s Halide 1.16, a ‘groundwork’ update with several features that improve everything about RAW — it improves how Halide displays your RAW captures, how it saves RAW (and regular compressed) files, improves Halide’s file output, and makes your life a bit better. On top of that, we’ve improved Halide’s performance even more. Let’s start with a feature that merits its own description: Rescue. Rescue There’s no worse of feeling than going into your camera roll after a day of shooting, only to discover that perfect shot is disappeared. This is extremely rare, but not impossible: You taking a photo at 5% battery, and suddenly the phone shuts down. You get a phone call in the middle of a shoot Or, a bug in iOS or (believe it or not) Halide causes an issue Even it’s a one in a million chance, we cannot accept even the slightest chance of losing a photo. We treat data loss as a critical problem, and that’s why we built Rescue. In the past, when you took..
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September 30, 2019

Halide 1.14: Time to Get Switchy

Welcome to Halide 1.14, our first big update after a busy summer. We’ve spent the last few months preparing for iOS 13 and new hardware, and we’re very excited to walk you through what’s new. iPhone 11 and 11 Pro Support We released a small lightning update on iPhone 11 launch day with basic support for the new cameras. Now we’re ready to release our big update. We engineered new features that take advantage of the powerful new hardware in the latest and greatest iPhones, starting with… The Tactile Lens Switcher In the past we’ve had a simple button that swaps between your wide angle and telephoto cameras. It served us well, but it was time to revisit it for the three cameras on the iPhone 11 Pro. At a glance, our lens switcher looks the same as before; we kept it in the same spot so it doesn’t interfere with your viewfinder and is within easy reach. Keeping the viewfinder clear of any obstructions is one of our highest priorities. It works similarly, too, at first glance: just keep tapping to cycle between 1x, 2x, and 0.5x sizes. Unfortunately, switching cameras has a bit of a delay. If you’re composing..