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I'm pretty into photography and love to shoot manual on my mirrorless and film cameras, so was naturally very intrigued by Halide. Unless I need to take a photo

I'm pretty into photography and love to shoot manual on my mirrorless and film cameras, so was naturally very intrigued by Halide. Unless I need to take a photo at a fast shutter speed, most photos look better taken through the stock camera with all the AI/ML processing Apple does. I guess I could also use Halide to shoot in RAW and edit later, but I don't really care to do that with iPhone photos. Curious what you're shooting where you feel you need the fine tune control Halide provides and if you actually fine the results better than the stock camera app?

feifan 5y ago
For me, Halide lets me shoot regular RAWs, whereas the stock camera doesn't — I don't like working with ProRAW because it renders buggily in Photos and Lightroom and I don't find it worth the file size.
- derwiki 5y ago
  What rendering bugs do you encounter?
  - feifan 5y ago
    The tone map "flickers" on/off unpredictably and in a non-undoable way (when it's off it appears to just be a flat plain RAW). If I actually try editing a ProRAW file, the whole photo area gets covered in green or red rectangles on every slider tick — looks like a graphics driver bug.
mortenjorck 5y ago
This matches with my experience. I love shooting full manual on my mirrorless, even dialing in manual focus on a fast prime with some assistance from focus peaking, but when it comes to iPhone photography, I prefer shooting hands-off. It feels like the ML engine just knows the limitations of the sensor better than I do and can give me the most to work with in Photos' streamlined develop mode.
girvo 5y ago
Agreed. While I can _sometimes_ get better results out of ProCamera (especially if I'm doing digital "zoom" cropping), honestly the default camera app does better 90% of the time. If I want the best results, I'll bring out my Fuji X70 or my mirrorless, both of which connect to my phone directly and automatically transfer shots (with geotags and everything)

feifan 5y ago

For me, Halide lets me shoot regular RAWs, whereas the stock camera doesn't — I don't like working with ProRAW because it renders buggily in Photos and Lightroom and I don't find it worth the file size.

derwiki 5y ago
What rendering bugs do you encounter?
- feifan 5y ago
  The tone map "flickers" on/off unpredictably and in a non-undoable way (when it's off it appears to just be a flat plain RAW). If I actually try editing a ProRAW file, the whole photo area gets covered in green or red rectangles on every slider tick — looks like a graphics driver bug.

mortenjorck 5y ago

This matches with my experience. I love shooting full manual on my mirrorless, even dialing in manual focus on a fast prime with some assistance from focus peaking, but when it comes to iPhone photography, I prefer shooting hands-off. It feels like the ML engine just knows the limitations of the sensor better than I do and can give me the most to work with in Photos' streamlined develop mode.

girvo 5y ago

Agreed. While I can _sometimes_ get better results out of ProCamera (especially if I'm doing digital "zoom" cropping), honestly the default camera app does better 90% of the time. If I want the best results, I'll bring out my Fuji X70 or my mirrorless, both of which connect to my phone directly and automatically transfer shots (with geotags and everything)