Must be quite the magical still photo that can show what was happening 1.5 seconds before and after! Magical motion blur!
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Live Photos Called 'Best New Feature,' Composed of Separate JPG and MOV Files
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Must be quite the magical still photo that can show what was happening 1.5 seconds before and after! Magical motion blur!
So that's the best feature the reviews can come up with? A feature that Android has had for ages and Apple has coppied and branded it as though they invented it.... Typical.
So the reviews want to totally ignore the one thing Apple has come up with on its own with the Force Touch and 3D interface, I actually think it's a pretty cool interface but hey ho.
Perhaps it's because its something new on iOS that can be sent via SMS to your pals?
So the reviews want to totally ignore the one thing Apple has come up with on its own with the Force Touch and 3D interface, I actually think it's a pretty cool interface but hey ho.
Perhaps it's because its something new on iOS that can be sent via SMS to your pals?
BRILLIANT!!!I'm embracing Live Photos. I think its cool. My wife makes the cutest faces, so it will be great to get pics of her with it. lol. I love telling her I'm taking a photo when I'm actually taking a video.
Also reminds me when the Compass feature landed in iOS and how it was supposed to lead to an avalanche of awesome new app categories.
I think they gave it a lot of thought. To do what you suggest, they would have to have invented a new format where a single frame of a 720P MOV file was a 12MP still. Keyframing that would be a nightmare, and compatibility would have been a big issue, because no one would have the codec to view a MOV file with a key frame at such a vastly higher resolution.
It's quite possible that they make a keyframe of the frame in the video that corresponds to the high res still image. that would make the transition into and out of the still image look crisp and clean, so great idea there, but using the full still image as a key frame--that way lies madness.
cell phone photos were cool for a minute and then i got into real cameras. i view my photos on my mac and not on my phone. the thing is on a vacation or a night out video captures the memories that a still may not. so with this i can still be taking a still as my primary thing and then have video along with it that will play seamlessly on mac and ios. it's a cool idea and i think i'll enjoy using it.
Honestly, nothing there sounds too crazy or like an unsolvable problem. The compatibility issues are not really a real problem, as these live photos are viewed on Apple devices anyway. I just hoped that there was more to it. It's an interesting problem to solve, but Apple decided to go with a really boring solution. Usually I love how they sometimes come up with inventive solutions to seemingly simple problems. Maybe it's more a thing of the past though.
I believe that your statement is incorrect. I believe that when the camera is opned, it starts caching up to 1.5 seconds, until you click to take a picture, and then saves that 1.5 seconds, PLUS the 1.5 seconds after the picture is "clicked".
Yeah, no. That's not the same. It's based on Flixel's Cinemagraph, which you may recall was an iOS app from 2011, long before the Lumias adopted the feature. A cinemagraph is a gif (With all its limitation) where a portion of the image moves. It was inspired by the work of photographers Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck.Whoohoo! A new feature! Oh, wait!
From what I can see, "Animated Photo" had
- Lower frame rate -- 10 per second
- Lower resolution -- 450 pixels high
- Larger file sizes
- GIF file type -- could be more useful for posting on the web -- except for the file size
- Limited color palette because of the GIF file type
- Ability to limit the motion to certain area (s?) of the image -- could help the file size
- Higher resolution MOV 720 pixels high (in landscape) -- I'd like the option for 1080
- 12MP still picture JPG
- Smaller file size
- Automatic. So long as the feature is on, it takes both a movie and still every time, so you don't have to decide before you shoot that you want to make it a high res still or a 720P movie.
- Records sound as part of the MOV file.
Honestly I think just capturing a few seconds before makes more sense and drop the seconds after. That way you "see" the person smile, and the "Live Photo" actually freezes at the "Photo"
I have a 6+ I just hope we will be able to download some that people create so I can put them on my Apple Water for moving watch faces! Would be awesome
That has nothing to do with HTC shutting it down, if Apple had used those times fans would still be gushing over it. The reason HTC has closed a few of their innovations down is due to the lack of large sales of their phones, which is unfortunate because they make beautiful and reliable phones, I know I've had 3 and never had even one little glitch.
I'm of the opinion that HTC will eventually stop making their own phones which is a real pity and a sad day for competition.
So when you look at this photo you believe the water is just suspended there like that? Can you not extrapolate what is happening? If that's the case, I think it's pretty unusual. Most people don't need to see 3 seconds of video to infer that something is happening when they look at an action photo...
Yeah, I'll take two of those ;-)would be great if the new phone transported you to a stylish manor.
Wow. That's a cool picture. It would look even cooler with 1.5 second animated leads in and out!So when you look at this photo you believe the water is just suspended there like that? Can you not extrapolate what is happening? If that's the case, I think it's pretty unusual. Most people don't need to see 3 seconds of video to infer that something is happening when they look at an action photo...