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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:
Halide + Kino aka halideapp.bsky.social
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Halide + Kino aka halideapp.bsky.social
@halidecamera
Apple Design Award Winner
App of the Year 24
We make Halide & Kino, the best cameras on iOS + Orion & Spectre.
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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. reddit.com/r/Android/comm… This isn't computational photography — it's inserting imagery that simply isn't there.
- We recorded an iPhone’s front facing TrueDepth camera doing Face ID with an infrared-senstive camera:
00:00 - 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.
- Replying to @joak187as 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The first-generation iPhone's camera is smaller than the flash on the iPhone 14 Pro.
- This is still Apple's very best video. It makes you want to buy an iPhone XS right now.
00:00 - Genuinely thrilled to see the return of the best, most pleasing camera arrangement on iPhone 😌
- 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.
- Not completely fair to say this was 'shot on iPhone' without mentioning the expensive and massive fusion reactor required to light it (the sun)A progression of San Francisco evening light, shot on iPhone.
