Casey Liss

It's tricky for some people even with big camera buttons that have relatively huge amounts of travel and the amount of travel that the camera control seems to have is,

much much smaller than the amount of travel the giant shutter button on a real camera has so maybe they're still working on that but yeah add that to the giant pile of things that are not ready on day one launch of this phone software wise indeed

much much smaller than the amount of travel the giant shutter button on a real camera has so maybe they're still working on that but yeah add that to the giant pile of things that are not ready on day one launch of this phone software wise indeed

It's a little bit of a little bit of hardware thing, too, because like the photographic styles is essentially like filters or whatever. And if you used to be able to pick them and you'd apply them when you took the picture. So if you chose like a black and white style and you took a picture, you got a black and white picture. Right.

It's a little bit of a little bit of hardware thing, too, because like the photographic styles is essentially like filters or whatever. And if you used to be able to pick them and you'd apply them when you took the picture. So if you chose like a black and white style and you took a picture, you got a black and white picture. Right.

uh and if you change your mind later and said oh i shouldn't have taken that picture in black and white tough luck that was applied when you took the picture it threw away all the color information now what they're doing is kind of like what you can do when you take a raw where it just saves the sensor data and you can have different interpretations of it right but raws are huge right so what they're doing is they'll let you take the picture pick a photographic style but after you take the shot you can pick a different photographic style

uh and if you change your mind later and said oh i shouldn't have taken that picture in black and white tough luck that was applied when you took the picture it threw away all the color information now what they're doing is kind of like what you can do when you take a raw where it just saves the sensor data and you can have different interpretations of it right but raws are huge right so what they're doing is they'll let you take the picture pick a photographic style but after you take the shot you can pick a different photographic style

Or remove the photographic style entirely or whatever. And the way they're doing this, they have vague descriptions of, like, how could they possibly be doing this if they're not capturing raw? Like, how are they getting back sensor information that they've already made a decision about?

Or remove the photographic style entirely or whatever. And the way they're doing this, they have vague descriptions of, like, how could they possibly be doing this if they're not capturing raw? Like, how are they getting back sensor information that they've already made a decision about?

My vague understanding from seeing people who have talked to Apple about this is they are essentially storing...

My vague understanding from seeing people who have talked to Apple about this is they are essentially storing...

more layers of information essentially like tone maps of like okay well here's the picture here's the thing that we captured sort of the baseline picture you know hick or whatever here are five other things we measured this part of tonality or like the things that the filters are going to affect they save them as separate maps probably also massively compressed

more layers of information essentially like tone maps of like okay well here's the picture here's the thing that we captured sort of the baseline picture you know hick or whatever here are five other things we measured this part of tonality or like the things that the filters are going to affect they save them as separate maps probably also massively compressed

And so then later, they can apply the filters by taking the original photo and one or more of those sort of tone maps that they captured, combining them, you know, decompressing them into the full array of pixels, running the filter over them, recompressing the output and saving that or something like that. And so it is kind of like... It's not compressed raw, which is another thing.

And so then later, they can apply the filters by taking the original photo and one or more of those sort of tone maps that they captured, combining them, you know, decompressing them into the full array of pixels, running the filter over them, recompressing the output and saving that or something like that. And so it is kind of like... It's not compressed raw, which is another thing.

You just take a raw, but compress it, right? This is kind of like lossy compressed raw with more layers saved during capture so that you can apply more interesting filters after the fact. It's a hell of a long way to go for a feature that I've never found appealing in any way whatsoever.

You just take a raw, but compress it, right? This is kind of like lossy compressed raw with more layers saved during capture so that you can apply more interesting filters after the fact. It's a hell of a long way to go for a feature that I've never found appealing in any way whatsoever.

But maybe regular people love to apply these filters to their pictures, and now it doesn't force you to, and I'm glad, it doesn't force you to decide up front what filter you're going to apply and then regret it later when you say, why do all the pictures from this year look like crayons?

But maybe regular people love to apply these filters to their pictures, and now it doesn't force you to, and I'm glad, it doesn't force you to decide up front what filter you're going to apply and then regret it later when you say, why do all the pictures from this year look like crayons?

And it's because, oh, that was the time that I decided to pick a photographic style and apply it to every single picture I took for a year, and it was a terrible mistake. I bet a lot of people feel that way about a lot of their early Instagram pictures, right? You know me. It's one of the reasons I love Apple photos. Save the original picture and then edit to your heart's content.