Tomas Chlebek Na presentation last week on Wednesday Along with the 12 Mpx camera of the new iPhones 6S and 6S Plus, which also have a novelty in the form of a 3D Touch display, Phil Schiller also presented a new way of capturing photos.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to write "new" and "photos", since Live Photos are closer in nature to short videos than static photos, and Apple is far from the first to come up with something similar. Consider, for example, HTC's Zoe, which was introduced with the HTC One in 2013. "Zoes," like Live Photos, are several-second videos that start moments before and end moments after the actual shutter release. Not too far away are also simple, and even much older, moving GIFs.
But Live Photos differ from "Zoes" and GIFs in that they really look like photos, the extended time dimension of which is only activated by the user when holding a finger on the display. In addition, Live Photos are not really a short video, while the resolution of the photo is 12 Mpx, the size does not correspond to several dozen photos in this resolution. Instead, Live Photo is twice the size of a classic photo.
[su_pullquote align=”right”]I think this little feature will profoundly affect the way we take pictures.[/su_pullquote]This is achieved by taking only one full-resolution image, while the others (captured before and after the shutter release) are a kind of motion recording, the total size of which corresponds to a second twelve-megapixel photo. Pre-shutter shots are created thanks to the specific way the iPhone takes photos. After starting the camera, a series of images will immediately begin to be created in the device's memory, from which the user simply selects the one that will be permanently saved by pressing the shutter button. Thanks to this, the iPhone can take photos very quickly since the 5S version, which introduced the so-called "burst mode", when holding your finger on the shutter button creates a series of photos, from which the best ones can then be selected.
Therefore, although the Live Photos feature will be on by default (and of course it can be turned off), it will not take up as much space as videos of the given length would. Even so, it will not be an ideal choice for those who decide to buy the basic version of the iPhone with 16 GB of memory.
As for the usefulness or benefit of Live Photos, there are two sides of opinion. One considers them useless, which someone might try a few times after buying a phone, but forget about it after a while. The second sees in it the potential to really revive the way we approach photographs.
It often happens that when looking at a photo we remember the moment it was taken - with Live Photos it will be possible to see and hear it again. Perhaps the photographer expressed himself most positively Austin mann: “It's another tool in the bag for creating deeper, more intimate connections between subject and audience. While it may seem insignificant in the demos, I think this small feature will have a profound impact on the way we take photos and share our experiences online.”
This will certainly largely depend on how social networks react to Live Photos. For now, it looks like Facebook will support Apple's efforts to revive mobile photography.
Startled. These are truly innovative and not just more Megapixels. Apple breathed new life into the dying photo.
:-))) What are you talking about a dying photo? :-)))
You my smile.. :-))))))))))))))))))))
I think it's always been called animated GIF and PNG, with the click-to-run option. Which unfortunately ios refuses to support. An innovation like the stylus that he was mocking now. Just a bummer :)
You know a fart about that too, right? This is not a GIF or PNG. And you've never seen an animated GIF on iOS? Yeah, you don't have it. :-)))
This won't work for all photos. But maybe photos from concerts get a completely new dimension thanks to this, because you can see a jumping crowd moving for a moment, etc. And that's just one use I just thought of. But just one thing, thanks to which I think it will break through, at least among the younger generation.
well, it's not such a groundbreaking discovery, it's basically a gif we can make... it'll take a few years before it burns out and people move on