Worried about capturing eye catching macro shots? This camera app can change older iPhones into a perfect macro machines.
The new camera lenses on the iPhone 13 added native macro photography functionality to the series.
The 13-series phones, contrary to Apple’s claims, aren’t the only Apple handsets that can shoot in macro mode. On previous iPhones, shooting something as near as a few centimetres from the camera is difficult. If you’re using the stock camera app, that case gets even worse. Now Halide, an iOS app could save you a lot of money over buying a new iPhone if you’re ready to invest in third-party software.
Halide, or Halide Mark II – Pro Camera, is a third-party camera tool that can be purchased from the App Store with subscription choices starting at Rs 269 per month or a one-time charge of Rs 4,499 available. The app adds a variety of functions to the iPhone camera, including the ability to manually focus photos. You may even try the app for a week for free.
On older iPhones, the Halide app allows you to take macro photographs. After you’ve downloaded Halide and selected a membership price, launch the app and tap the Auto Focus (AF) button to start manual focusing. By picking the flower-shaped icon on the bottom left, you can go macro.
After that, you may place your phone near any little object, such as a coin, a small flower, or even a snail. To set the focus just right, use the slider at the bottom of the viewfinder and click a shot. There are also cool green accents that appear when you’re focusing to assist you in getting the finest shot possible.
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Through a feature called Coverage, the updated Mark II version of the app can now capture both RAW and the iPhone’s computationally processed photographs at the same time. Most photo filters and social networking applications won’t take RAW files, but the advantage of RAW is that you get a photo that hasn’t been processed and can be edited afterwards. When you use Coverage, you get two photos out of one photo: one that you can upload right away and one that you can tweak later. By default, though, coverage will be turned off.
The Mark II also gets a new Instant RAW feature that “intelligently” produces a single RAW image through a 17-step process without requiring you to manually alter sliders or levels. In today’s announcement blog, Halide stated, “Instant RAW can work as a medium between a completely unfiltered RAW and a completely treated JPEG.” According to The Verge, an Instant RAW image will seem different than a JPG created by applying Apple’s Smart HDR processing to an image. According to the manufacturer, Halide’s processing method was inspired by the way film photography develops.
If you’re a first-time user of Halide, you have a few alternatives. You can pay once for the app, which costs $30 at launch and $36 at a later date. As more capabilities are added to the app, Halide says it plans to boost the one-time price.
Subscriptions, dubbed “memberships” by Halide, are also available. For $9.99, you can get a year’s worth of access to the app’s features. “In the foreseeable future,” that price will rise to $11.99. If you’ve already purchased Halide, you’ll get Mark II for free, as well as a year’s worth of bonuses.
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