iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra

So, the photo-related news from yesterdays Apple keynote are pretty slim, but
there were some. No new hardware, but some new ways to use tech that is
already there.

Live Photos is where, when enabled, the iPhone takes a series of full-
resolution shots 1.5 seconds before and after you hit the shutter button.
This was always just a quirky way to save a short video with every still
shot. With iOS11 you will be able to edit this and pick what shot is the
"main" shot. And also, you can change the shutter time, meaning the iPhone
can after the fact make a long exposure from a "normal photo" by
interpolating information from the surrounding 3 seconds of footage. It's a
neat trick to move closer to what you can easily do with a DSLR.

Apple is also doubling down with AR, with a developer API to include
augmented reality elements into any scene, which is seriously cool of course.

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Sandman

In article ,
Sandman wrote:

So, the photo-related news from yesterdays Apple keynote are pretty slim, but
there were some. No new hardware, but some new ways to use tech that is
already there.

Oki...

Live Photos is where, when enabled, the iPhone takes a series of full-
resolution shots 1.5 seconds before and after you hit the shutter button.

Spray 'n pray...

This was always just a quirky way to save a short video with every still
shot. With iOS11 you will be able to edit this and pick what shot is the
"main" shot.

Any worries about hitting the decisive moment is bygones...

And also, you can change the shutter time, meaning the iPhone
can after the fact make a long exposure from a "normal photo" by
interpolating information from the surrounding 3 seconds of footage. It's a
neat trick to move closer to what you can easily do with a DSLR.

We call it stacking...

Apple is also doubling down with AR, with a developer API to include
augmented reality elements into any scene, which is seriously cool of course.

Making photos totally useless as witnesses of history...
--
teleportation kills

In article ,
Sandman wrote:

So, the photo-related news from yesterdays Apple keynote are pretty slim, but
there were some. No new hardware, but some new ways to use tech that is
already there.

Oki...

Live Photos is where, when enabled, the iPhone takes a series of full-
resolution shots 1.5 seconds before and after you hit the shutter button.

Spray 'n pray...

This was always just a quirky way to save a short video with every still
shot. With iOS11 you will be able to edit this and pick what shot is the
"main" shot.

Any worries about hitting the decisive moment are bygones...

And also, you can change the shutter time, meaning the iPhone
can after the fact make a long exposure from a "normal photo" by
interpolating information from the surrounding 3 seconds of footage. It's a
neat trick to move closer to what you can easily do with a DSLR.

We call it stacking...

Apple is also doubling down with AR, with a developer API to include
augmented reality elements into any scene, which is seriously cool of course.

Making photos totally useless as witnesses of history...
--
teleportation kills

On 06/06/2017 12:41, Sandman wrote:
So, the photo-related news from yesterdays Apple keynote are pretty slim, but
there were some. No new hardware, but some new ways to use tech that is
already there.

Live Photos is where, when enabled, the iPhone takes a series of full-
resolution shots 1.5 seconds before and after you hit the shutter button.

1.5s *before* you press - is that some sort of undocumented space-time
shift facility?

:-)


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Cheers, Rob

In article , RJH
wrote:

On 06/06/2017 12:41, Sandman wrote:
So, the photo-related news from yesterdays Apple keynote are pretty slim,
but
there were some. No new hardware, but some new ways to use tech that is
already there.

Live Photos is where, when enabled, the iPhone takes a series of full-
resolution shots 1.5 seconds before and after you hit the shutter button.

1.5s *before* you press - is that some sort of undocumented space-time
shift facility?

Recording the live dump to a 3s cache would not be undoable...
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teleportation kills

In article , RJH wrote:


Live Photos is where, when enabled, the iPhone takes a series of full-
resolution shots 1.5 seconds before and after you hit the shutter button.

1.5s *before* you press - is that some sort of undocumented space-time
shift facility?

all it's doing is saving the live preview into a buffer, so that when
you take a photo, it saves the previous 1.5 seconds, along with saving
the 1.5 seconds following, assuming the camera is still pointing at the
subject. if not, what follows is discarded.

In article ,
Sandman wrote:

So, the photo-related news from yesterdays Apple keynote are pretty slim, but
there were some. No new hardware, but some new ways to use tech that is
already there.

it was much more than slim.

Live Photos is where, when enabled, the iPhone takes a series of full-
resolution shots 1.5 seconds before and after you hit the shutter button.
This was always just a quirky way to save a short video with every still
shot. With iOS11 you will be able to edit this and pick what shot is the
"main" shot. And also, you can change the shutter time, meaning the iPhone
can after the fact make a long exposure from a "normal photo" by
interpolating information from the surrounding 3 seconds of footage. It's a
neat trick to move closer to what you can easily do with a DSLR.

they also greatly improved scene recognition, added an image
recognition api for developers and improved editing in photos for
consumers.

Apple is also doubling down with AR, with a developer API to include
augmented reality elements into any scene, which is seriously cool of course.

it is.

In article , RJH wrote:

So, the photo-related news from yesterdays Apple keynote are
pretty slim, but there were some. No new hardware, but some new
ways to use tech that is already there.

Live Photos is where, when enabled, the iPhone takes a series of
full- resolution shots 1.5 seconds before and after you hit the
shutter button.

1.5s *before* you press - is that some sort of undocumented
space-time shift facility?

More or less, when the camera is active, it is continually recording frames
into a buffer, when you hit the shutter, it will save that buffer 1.5s before
and 1.5s after you hit it and it's called a "live photo".

--
Sandman

On 07/06/2017 08:31, Sandman wrote:
In article , RJH wrote:

So, the photo-related news from yesterdays Apple keynote are
pretty slim, but there were some. No new hardware, but some new
ways to use tech that is already there.

Live Photos is where, when enabled, the iPhone takes a series of
full- resolution shots 1.5 seconds before and after you hit the
shutter button.

1.5s *before* you press - is that some sort of undocumented
space-time shift facility?

More or less, when the camera is active, it is continually recording frames
into a buffer, when you hit the shutter, it will save that buffer 1.5s before
and 1.5s after you hit it and it's called a "live photo".


Ah right yes thanks everyone!

--
Cheers, Rob

In article , RJH
wrote:

On 07/06/2017 08:31, Sandman wrote:
In article , RJH wrote:

So, the photo-related news from yesterdays Apple keynote are
pretty slim, but there were some. No new hardware, but some new
ways to use tech that is already there.

Live Photos is where, when enabled, the iPhone takes a series of
full- resolution shots 1.5 seconds before and after you hit the
shutter button.

1.5s *before* you press - is that some sort of undocumented
space-time shift facility?

More or less, when the camera is active, it is continually recording frames
into a buffer, when you hit the shutter, it will save that buffer 1.5s
before
and 1.5s after you hit it and it's called a "live photo".


Ah right yes thanks everyone!

Prego!
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teleportation kills