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Live Photos Shown Off In New Hands-On Video
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Notice in this video that there was no IMEI number on the rear. Was it digitally removed for the video or is there really no external imei?
Why can't IPads have Live Photos it will look even better on IPad Pro hope they put it in a IOS update
Hmmmm I remember a time, one I still revisit from time to time, where it sometimes took a few seconds to get the picture "right"...... F-stop, focus, ect. This is obviously something you either 1.plan on taking or 2. Shoot all the time "hoping" to capture that perfect one. I think it's a cool feature.
there are a few things I don't like about the implementation. For one the pic is taken with 1.5 sec delay. So you might miss the right time point for the pic although the movie captures that.
Also I don't get the blurry first half second on replay. Why is it blurry? It looks like the movie captures the focussing of the camera.
And the click and hold to make them play in the photo app is also not very intuitive.
The idea itself is good and fun however.
Also I don't get the blurry first half second on replay. Why is it blurry? It looks like the movie captures the focussing of the camera.
And the click and hold to make them play in the photo app is also not very intuitive.
The idea itself is good and fun however.
I think you're mistaken on how it actually works. When the camera app is open it is continuously recording whatever you're pointing the camera at. Once you click/press the shutter button it saves the 1.5 seconds of video before and after the click and discards the rest.
There is no wait time from when you click/press the button and when the picture is taken.
Ah I see. That is a good point. I still don't understand then why there is this blurry second at the beginning. In the live pic of the dog in this articles video it's there as well.
You mean like in the same way that a person who has just taken the live photo would have to do to view it?
When I viewed one on the 5C yesterday it definitely wasn't several seconds.
I think live photos would be perfect for me taking pictures of my kids - hard to tell if they're gonna smile or move so I just take a bunch of photos. With live photos, i can take fewer pics, and just grab screen shots from the live photo.
I've been taking videos to compensate for this, but they take up a lot of space, and switching from photos to videos, with kids, is tough.
Just for the record, I've not seen any picture taken with this feature that would make me want it. I would turn it off as soon as I got the phone. I've watched these and other demos and not liked anything I've seen.
I'm usually pro Apple but this feature...meh
I'm usually pro Apple but this feature...meh
i guess most of these live pics will be meh or worse. There are a few things where I would like them. I took a pic on the boat dock and in the live version the flags and sails are moving in the wind. That would normally look nice if played in a loop and only little movement was seen. but with the weird blurry beginning it just look awful.
Its too bad that we can't outfit phones to our taste. My phone would be devoid of the forward camera/flash, and about two thirds of what Apple installs as part of the current iOS.
One of things I've tried to get past is feeling the need to be enthusiastic about every feature Apple comes up with. I guess its a holdover from the days when I evangelized for the company, and tried to make a case for everything they did in order to show people just how much cooler the company's products were than the alleged competition.
Back when it was Mac vs PC, it was pretty easy, especially as OS X matured. Each new iteration of the operating system was faster and had a list of new features that a typical computer user would need, even if they didn't realize it at the time.
Now, with the iPhone taking the majority of headlines for the company, I find myself just standing back and saying "whatever" for just about every feature they come up with. Sometimes I find the new feature useful - like the control center. Prior to the iOS release that included it I found myself saying "Who cares? All these features can be accessed from the Settings. Why use up a valuable swipe gesture on this when we might need it later for something more important?" Then I got the update, messed with the control center a bit, and found it was a time saver for me.
But that kind of thing becomes rarer for me as iOS matures and the phone ecosystem is merging with all the "social" crap. I will never take a selfie - ever - so I don't need umpteen million features to make it easier to take, share, flash, etc. I don't use Twitter, Facebook, the Nike+ nonsense, HealthKit, HomeKit, Watch apps, etc, and I wish that stuff could be excised from my install. I will never use Siri - ever - so I don't appreciate it defaulting to scan all my correspondence for information. (I also don't like the fact that iOS at random times decides to turn on certain services that I don't use - ever - like location services. How helpful. For the NSA.) News seems like it might be... ok, but on my iPhone 5 the sample covers are so tiny I can't even see what is available to me. Plus, why look at a magazine on my phone when I have a 27 inch iMac at home? (Not to mention the subscription information is then used to help build a user profile, which.... you're welcome, NSA, again.)
I've had to get past my disdain for the social integration of the iPhone and realize that with every new iteration of the phone and the OS, that despite all the spyware that the company tries to slip by me the iPhone basics keep getting better. I want a phone has excellent call quality, and can browse, do email, and do multimedia text messaging. Excellent pics are a bonus.
Therefore, as long as I can turn off the stuff I don't like watching me, and hide the stuff I don't use, they can come up with all the features they want that are really just "features", I'll buy a new phone every two years to take advantage of the better hardware.
I like the idea but I agree the blurry beginning is awful. It distracts from the image itself. I can't tell if it's a purposeful blur effect that they have added on (like a transition into the beginning of the movie) or if it is the camera focusing like you have mentioned. Another glaring problem to me is that it captures time BEFORE the image is snapped. I feel this is a mistake since you get the jarring effect when playing them of the image jumping from the still shot to 1.5 seconds before when the subject in fame could have been in a completely different position. Maybe they added to blur to help disguise that and it just doesn't work well?
In my opinion the live photo would work better if it only captured a little video after the still shot. Then when you activated the animation it would better give the illusion of the photo coming to life rather than the current very obvious transition from the still photo to the recorded movie file.
I still like the idea I just think the implementation of it was not fully thought out.
Why not have it play through once when iMessages opens the conversation and it's visible? If that's too much to ask, then why not have it animate when someone opens the image itself. If you have to explain to someone how to look at it then it's a complete fail. Oh look at this cool "Live Photo", to get it to work you have to hold your finger down obscuring the photo though...
Just voicing my opinion. Expectation was that it would be a Simple click .
Your average user is not a "good photographer" that frames a shot .
It's a gimmick
Don't get me wrong, I shoot on canon and Leica bodies manual settings.
And for me this is a video approach to taking a shot, well even weird for video cause the phone records before you press the button...
I think it was fully thought out, but perhaps that thought didn't lead them to implement it exactly the way you would have.
You're right that the blur is probably a transition from the still photo to the moving part, which is 1.5 seconds earlier. You don't see that blur when swiping from one photo to the next. In that case the swipe is the transition. Then you see the moving part of the next photo for 1.5 seconds, which settles in to the still.
Not very useful, for instance, i took a photo of my son, he moved, so i thought i would be able to pull out a frame where he was in focus and not blurry, however with live photos i am unable to; Burst photos however, would have been easy to pick one out.
At the moment, just a gimmick.