It's essentially a fake blur stitching two photos together, very much like the HTC One M8 and new Galaxy S5's refocusing feature, but instead of having to buy one of those cameras, you just need to update the app!
The camera requires you to take a photo of a subject, and slowly raise your camera so it can snap a second shot, this allows the camera to work out the distances between subjects and then process the final image.
The above photo is taken without the lens blur feature, the bottom is.
The best part? You can adjust the blur, and refocus areas!!!! Samsung and HTC must be feeling a bit annoyed right now since they tout it as a feature in both their devices.
One, it doesn't work if ur subjects are too close, doesn't matter for me I think.
Two, the file size is shrunk, your 8mp photo is reduced to a miserable 1024 x 768 resolution...that's really low, low enough that when u put it up Instagram, the image is pixelated.
The second con is the one that gets me the most...I wished the resolution was higher, especially since I'd probably only love to use this feature and share an image on instagram. Still considering this was an unexpected update with a pretty nifty feature, it's still more novelty than anything else, but definitely a good one to have. I hope they'd upgrade the resolution for the lens blur photo, but for now this will do pretty well.
2 comments:
Very clever.
What is wrong with using this for instagram? 1024 pixels is already way bigger than 612px.
Actually it works great on instagram i realised, but damn weird leh, when it transfer over to facebook, my image becomes pixelated.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152018044726994&set=a.10150912411601994.409219.505541993&type=1&relevant_count=1
Post a Comment