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Award-Winning iPhone Camera App Halide Expands to iPad With New 'Pro View'

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Just three days before the new iPad Pro begins arriving to customers, the developers of award-winning iPhone camera app Halide have announced the release of an iPad app, complete with a custom user interface that takes advantage of the larger screen.

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To keep the viewfinder minimally obscured, the iPad app has an expandable "honeycomb" of controls next to the shutter button for manually adjusting shutter speed, ISO, white balance, and more. Other key features are readily reachable at the edges of the screen, with Halide offering Smart RAW and RAW+JPEG capture, instant RAW processing, a dedicated Depth mode, manual focus with focus peaking, and more.

Unique to the iPad is a new Pro View that shrinks the viewfinder to be within the limits of your central vision, according to Halide:
Ever notice that taking a photo on an iPad is a challenge? It’s not just the iPad part. Our human vision is split into central and peripheral vision - allowing you to see detail only in a small area. As you hold iPads closer to you than iPhones and their screens are larger, it is nearly impossible to see your entire composition well. […]

Pro View is a toggle in the bottom left that shrinks the viewfinder up to the limits of your detailed central vision. It makes it large enough to use a large iPad screen, but small enough to judge composition and take a good photo. This also creates extra space for manual mode, a big histogram (we made it much larger), waveform, manual focus, and the pro features. Even enabling manual controls for shutter and ISO do not interfere or overlap on the viewfinder.
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Halide said there are several other new features, refinements, and bug fixes, including a left-handed user interface option and a space gray app icon option.


Existing users can update the Halide app to automatically get access to the iPad app at no additional cost. New users can subscribe to the app for $1.99 per month or $11.99 per year or unlock the app for a one-time purchase of $39.99.

Halide is available on the App Store.

Article Link: Award-Winning iPhone Camera App Halide Expands to iPad With New 'Pro View'
 
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great app ... but iPad? I can see iPad being used indoors, studio work and such but people dragging their iPads out to take photos? yes, they do that and it always makes me shake my head ...
 
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jz0309 said:
great app ... but iPad? I can see iPad being used indoors, studio work and such but people dragging their iPads out to take photos? yes, they do that and it always makes me shake my head ...
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Exactly...so theres nothing wrong with them brining one of the best third party apps to iPad. Until now there was really not a stellar third party app that shot RAW on iPad.
 
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robotfist said:
No way am I subscribing to a camera app. I'm so tired of every piece of software being on a lease. The apps that get my money are paid apps, where I buy the product and then I own it.
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Totally agree, but to be fair, they offer a version you can purchase outright.

Some people might then argue about the price point of purchasing this particular app, but at least it's better than some developers who don't offer a purchase option at all.
 
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They should focus on fixing the iPhone version first. When I take a picture it doesn’t get saved. It shows an error about helper application something. You would think they would get such a basic feature right.
 
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Love the intentionality and thoughtfulness behind their approach to designing solutions. Pro view sounds like a great solve for why I never use my iPad for taking pictures, and may make it more of an option in a pinch vs. being a non-starter.

Edit: I use Halide on the iPhone Pro 12 and love it. It's the go to camera for manual controls because I shoot exclusively in RAW (I also use the stock camera app quite often now that it can shoot RAW as well).
 
mactactic said:
Tired of the subscription model all these apps have now.
I see that I pass on the app.
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But there is an option to pay for the app.. without the use of a subscription.

Apple_Robert said:
Good on Halide for bringing their magic to the iPad. I am glad I already have the app. Granted, I don't use my iPad for outside shooting very much but, I am glad Halide is looking out for iPad users.
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I‘m enjoying the positive vibes lol. I plan on giving the app a trial period when the new iPad Pro gets delivered.
 
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jz0309 said:
great app ... but iPad? I can see iPad being used indoors, studio work and such but people dragging their iPads out to take photos? yes, they do that and it always makes me shake my head ...
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The best camera is the one you have with you or something ;)
 
Can't you shoot with your iPhone and edit with iPad? With iCloud my photos are accessible on my iPad. This seems to be the workload. No one shoots with their iPad regularly.
 
Never heard of this app, seemed like it could be useful, but I am not going to pay a monthly subscription fee perpetually to take photos, ... sorry.

Let me have a free trial, then I'll pay for the app. Once. And, $40 for a camera app is stretching it. Maybe for people who are photographers or serious hobbyists.
 
robotfist said:
No way am I subscribing to a camera app. I'm so tired of every piece of software being on a lease. The apps that get my money are paid apps, where I buy the product and then I own it.
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I think the time of owning apps is coming to an end so many monthly fees.
 
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To keep the viewfinder minimally obscured, the iPad app has an expandable "honeycomb" of controls next to the shutter button for manually adjusting shutter speed, ISO, white balance, and more. Other key features are readily reachable at the edges of the screen, with Halide offering Smart RAW and RAW+JPEG capture, instant RAW processing, a dedicated Depth mode, manual focus with focus peaking, and more.
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Do any of these variables impact how the camera captures the image, or is this a simulation of how those controls function on a traditional camera?
 
DogHouseDub said:
Do any of these variables impact how the camera captures the image, or is this a simulation of how those controls function on a traditional camera?
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i read it as a simulation. Halide uses RAW + incorporates Apple's deep fusion in their image processing, so it's not likely they'd offer a solution that compromises image quality.
 
robotfist said:
No way am I subscribing to a camera app. I'm so tired of every piece of software being on a lease. The apps that get my money are paid apps, where I buy the product and then I own it.
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Meh. Why pay for features you don’t use? This model is much better
 
Why pay for this app? It’s one of the few where the developers meticulously improve the app and add concretely useful features. 1Password, Darkroom and a few others come to mind.

Their developers will go to WWDC (or attend online) and blog about how the latest technologies can and will be used in their apps. At times and depending on the complexity of the feature, they’ll have beta versions of their apps with the new technologies out shortly after the first iOS beta seed.

That, to me, earns my money. They’re outgoing about how they want to improve their apps and do it because they love it, not just because they grabbed your money up front and have to begrudgingly release updates to shut people up, like so many devs do.
 
jz0309 said:
great app ... but iPad? I can see iPad being used indoors, studio work and such but people dragging their iPads out to take photos? yes, they do that and it always makes me shake my head ...
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Not in the least relevant to using Halide, but yesterday it was reported that the UK's NHS (at least in England) is handing out 30,000 iPads to their paramedics with one major reason being to provide the ability to photograph patients in order to get support from consultants. They specifically mentioned strokes and injuries.

So there certainly are use cases for iPad photography out and about!
 
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