Been offered in consumer cameras for a couple years now. Nice to see it added to iOS.
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New APIs in iOS 7 Allow Developers to Detect Blinking and Smiling in Photos
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CP Pro app, that does exposure compensation when you drag the adjustment section to a dark area of the shot. Works quite well.
Unlikely will they add - generally, they don't add brand new functionality during the beta period.
Currently, if you don't want to use third-party camera apps (most of them support exposure carets), you can consider jailbreaking and using CameraTweak's separate expsoure caret to simulate exp. correction. (Assuming there is some darker / lighter area in the image you can position the caret on.)
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Yup, most AppStore camera apps do. Nevertheless, I'd go the JB + CameraTweak way, it's the best IMHO.
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BTW, timers are also supported by CameraTweak.
Pretty sue this has been on Android for a few years now... at least something like this was on an HTC phone I was using last year for sure. Multiple shots and it puts them all together.
Its cool and all, but it is sure not unique to Apple or the iPhone.... they are rather late to this game. Again.
Its cool and all, but it is sure not unique to Apple or the iPhone.... they are rather late to this game. Again.
"Good old Android"
Nope, good old digital cameras. Apple may be "rather late", but I'd rather things were late and well done, than early and without due thought and badly executed, just because the OEM thinks the feature is missing and HAS to be in a spec sheet.
Are you saying that the HTC implementation of this sucked? Is this based on personal experience on your part?
Or are you saying the Apple version is Gods gift to photography? Again, based on your usage?
You or I don't have a CLUE what Apple's version is like...
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It's simple - Apple's implementations of things may take longer, but are generally FAR better, and that's not something I wish to debate really - it's obvious by mere observation and common sense.
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Yes they are - I have a box full of them. However, the fact that they're in a box, unused, speaks of their massive inconvenience, but again - they're amazing!
Sorry but the ignorance in this thread is quite telling. Anyways, please realize this has already been done. GS3 had this feature at launch. Great for iPhone users, nothing new to Galaxy S users. Still waiting for something new to the industry from Apple.
I'd rather them focus on focus. Images appear okay, but if I look closely, quite a few iPhone images aren't in focus. I guess that's what you get with a camera phone though, considering I've had mirrorless cameras that have a tough time with this also.
Siri was in beta and quite unreliable when it was launched for 4s
Apple Maps was a cynical conundrum at first compared to Google maps
iMessage is flaky at best, sometime ended up as text message instead and is frankly no better than legacy BBm
Late 2012 iMac announcement was a mistake. Too little too early. It wasn't ready yet. Cook himself said so
Apple late to the game but generally far better.. Hmm .. You sure?
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It's nothing new to Samsung users because Samsung users can only expect the rushed, clunky showy junk that Samsung create to fill their bullet pointed marketing leaflets. The wise and patient of the iPhone users - granted, that isn't all them - are willing to play the long game and wait for Apple to sit and wait to see how things develop with the bleeding edge, AKA Samsung, then take the parts that are essential and which work, then refine and refine and refine them until their version is insanely "fat free", and works as you expect it to, without all the UI fanfare and silly gimmicks.
You can call it "fanboyism" - I do not deny Apple make mistakes, of course they do, but I call it expectation based upon a concrete, industry-shaping history of successful implementations of tech which others have totally messed up due to them rushing to get it out "on time", or having totally missed the point of the feature they tried to implement (in a rush).
I love this video, because it summarises what I've always thought Apple stand for, and they do SO well:
PS: I'm not defined by what others call me or think of me - if you want to call me a "fanboy" then I cannot stop you, but remember - it doesn't change me, and it doesn't change Apple being amazing, and having formed the smart-phone industry as we know it - they're the "Gold Standard", and I trust their designers exponentially more than those working for the myriad of other "iPhone killer/iPhone toppler" OEMs - mistakes or not, they're worlds ahead.
Obviously Apple isn't breaking any new grounds with the addition of this smile and blink-detection API. They're not the first, and for all we know they might not even have the best implementation. But by including this as an API, it makes it much easier for developers to include this functionality in their apps- and that's good news for everybody.
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API's the word! (or acronym
)Xcode and iPhone makes it easier by far. Sure, Android may have the functionality, but is that across Android or just with Samsung's closed API? Do I know what hardware my app I am writing will be run on, or do I have to buy EVERY SINGLE Android device in production, and test it on ALL of them?
I'll take Apple, thanks.
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That's the problem of your logic there. You only think Samsung as a juvenile company who'd love to rush out products and half baked services.
Samsung is honestly the only company capable of handling Apple's production demands for chips and ICs.
Without Samsung rushing forward with innovation you might not be able enjoy what Apple has today.
And talking about rushing half baked products, Apple does it often too. You know ... MobileMe, Thunderbolt, Siri, Apple Maps.
Yet Apple often embarrassingly late to the game. Like 1080p iTunes movies, 1080p Apple TV, iPhone 3G, USB 3.0 on Mac, cut paste operation of Finder. Really bro? No reason to delay such things but they did.
Apple makes nice product, no doubt about it. But when I meet people rushing in, bashing out competition and overly worship Apple as if it's the only tech company on planet earth .. it deserves some
That's the problem of your logic there. You only think Samsung as a juvenile company who'd love to rush out products and half baked services.
Samsung is honestly the only company capable of handling Apple's production demands for chips and ICs.
Without Samsung rushing forward with innovation you might not be able enjoy what Apple has today.
And talking about rushing half baked products, Apple does it often too. You know ... MobileMe, Thunderbolt, Siri, Apple Maps.
Yet Apple often embarrassingly late to the game. Like 1080p iTunes movies, 1080p Apple TV, iPhone 3G, USB 3.0 on Mac, cut paste operation of Finder. Really bro? No reason to delay such things but they did.
Apple makes nice product, no doubt about it. But when I meet people rushing in, bashing out competition and overly worship Apple as if it's the only tech company on planet earth .. it deserves some
You're comparing electronic components with consumer products - if you'd thought that through a little more carefully, you'd know that they are ENTIRELY different divisions of the same brand name.
I could supply ship loads of white flour and raisins around the world, but does that make me a baker? Samsung doesn't dictate what parts Apple use - Apple say: "Samsung, we need this specification part - please make us 100,000,000 over the next year, to these measurements and with this connector, and with these voltages and pins", and Samsung fulfil the order(s).
It seems obvious (to me) this is how it works, but having a certification as electronics engineers helps also.
Take care, cheers
The code says something about a minimum OS X requirement. More artificial limitations? "The older iMac cannot provide the processing power required for blink detection."
Yep. God forbid they add a new feature to new versions of their OSs without backporting them all to the older versions.
I suppose you want them to backport Grand Central Dispatch and Intel processor support all the way back to Puma, too?
Yep. God forbid they add a new feature to new versions of their OSs without backporting them all to the older versions.
I suppose you want them to backport Grand Central Dispatch and Intel processor support all the way back to Puma, too?
LOL!! Yep, you got that right - hehe
I don't expect non-coders/engineers to understand, and I'll explain what I can in layman's terms, but there's a limit to we can say, which people will understand.
There are not a thousand no's.
Why would a Billion Dollar company put out a multi-nation campaign and a company that is the "Gold Standard" have a typo/grammatical error in ads and videos?
No's is not a word and has never been in the English language.
I don't think Apple No's what a proof reader is.
Way to set the Gold Standard for the world. It's almost like they are trying to "Think Different" which was never grammatically correct either.
But who No's. The beautiful pastel Easter egg look with iOS 7 may become the new "Gold Standard" because it was designed in "California by Apple".
That means so much to someone in Europe, Asia or all of the other countries that Apple peddle their wares.
The "Gold Standard" doesn't mean a lot when the American dollar or Apple can't back it.
No worries, this is how life works. I'm 33 and feel the same way - imagine all the cool stuff that kids are going to have in the future!
Could it be that Apple, with many, many employees and an impeccable level of detail, have spelt something wrong? They're human; they may have, yes. However, I am willing to bet you a LOT of money that their spelling of the phrase is correct, and yours isn't, since you have no face to lose from it, whereas with Apple it could cost them.
Please refer to: http://www.eng-lang.co.uk/apostrophe_rules.htm
You and I can agree to disagree, and that's alright with me
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