iPhone 13 Pro A little help understanding Halide

[aenflex]

Hi everyone,

I know next to nothing about digital photography. I like snapping photos of my child, family, pets, nature, etc. I don’t do social media.

I’ve been 100% satisfied with my 11P for several years. A little unhappy with the 13P I just purchased.

I read much of the mega thread here about photo quality and the 13s. So I went ahead and bought Halide Mark whatever. Watched a few tutorials and learnt the UI.
(I’m using JPEG format for capture for space reasons, plus I don’t want to have to edit much, if at all)

Question is: Are the JPEG files captured with Halide supposed to have less AI processing? Less grain, less ‘water color’ affect? Sharper details? Do the JPEG files made by Halide bypass Apple’s funky processing?

I’ve done some side by side pics today and I’m not seeing a difference between the two.

Thanks for any help, much appreciated.

 

[zakarhino]

My understanding is that Halide JPEGs are the same as the stock camera's JPEGs.

One thing you can try is scrolling down in the Halide capture settings and disabling "Smartest Processing." That removes HDR and *some* of the sharpening effect from the images but it's not like the old iPhone 11/12 setting that let you disable the water color sharpening entirely.

 

[now i see it]

JPEG is a type of final compression to reduce file size. It is an image format. It’s independent of any post processing or in-camera processing Apple applies to the image. Likely the true raw off-the-sensor image is horrible looking and in-camera image processing HAS to be applied to it to make it viewable.

 

[aenflex]

Thanks for the replies. So far I cannot tell a difference in ‘quality’ after many attempts.

Zakarhino, I will try your suggestion.

 

[Populus]

Hey, i‘m interested in this topic. @aenflex have you learned how to disable the iPhone 13 post-processing using Halide? I’m considering the lifetime purchase but it is expensive. Need to know how it works.

 

[MrAperture]

Hey, i‘m interested in this topic. @aenflex have you learned how to disable the iPhone 13 post-processing using Halide? I’m considering the lifetime purchase but it is expensive. Need to know how it works.

I just looked at Halide settings and you can disable Smartest Processing (Deep Fusion and Smart HDR).

You can also do a 7 day trial. (I’m trying it out)

 

[Populus]

I just looked at Halide settings and you can disable Smartest Processing (Deep Fusion and Smart HDR).

You can also do a 7 day trial. (I’m trying it out)

Do you have an iPhone 13 or newer? I ask this because apparently it was easy on the 12 and earlier but not sure if this is possible in the latest devices (that I don’t own yet). Thank you

 

[MrAperture]

Do you have an iPhone 13 or newer? I ask this because apparently it was easy on the 12 and earlier but not sure if this is possible in the latest devices (that I don’t own yet). Thank you

Yes. I’m using an iPhone 14 Pro.

 

[Populus]

Yes. I’m using an iPhone 14 Pro.

Nice!! Thanks for the information!

Have you noticed if there’s no over-processing in certain pictures? I hope you’re familiar with such over-processing of pictures under certain conditions that was much more noticeable starting with the iPhone 13.

 

[MrAperture]

Nice!! Thanks for the information!

Have you noticed if there’s no over-processing in certain pictures? I hope you’re familiar with such over-processing of pictures under certain conditions.

I just downloaded Halide last night for the first time. I haven’t gotten a chance to do much with it yet.