Halide Mark II: The best camera App for the iPhone is now even better

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Halide Mark II
This camera App brings out the Maximum out of your iPhone

The revised

The revised “Halide”App offers new features

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“Halide” is one of the most popular camera Apps for the iPhone. Now the application is published in a new Version with improved support and more powerful image formats lures.

The iPhone is the most popular camera in the world. To capture photos and Videos that most of the users*have access to the inside of the pre-installed default camera App. This is designed to be intuitive, scratching only the surface of what is possible with the Smartphone Camera, technically possible.

Especially ambitious (Hobby-) photographer*interior why rely on applications from third-party companies. One of the most popular of the three years available, paid App “Halide” is. This appeared on Friday in a completely revised Version: “Halide Mark II” is to highlight the iPhone-photography with 50 new features and a revised user interface to a whole new Level, so developer Ben Sandofsky.

Halide offers “Instant RAW”

One of the great advantages of the “Halide”App: photos will be taken at the same time as a fully edited JPG as well as RAW Format. There is a minimum delay between these shots, but we obtain a previously unknown flexibility in the recording. RAW images contain more image information than normal JPG images and provide more options in post processing. This, however, requires a certain Expertise and is therefore, for the casual photographer*interior is not attractive.

Therefore, the App has now with Instant RAW a new feature, which is aimed at people that have no idea of RAW, however, the full potential of your iPhone want to take advantage of. Normally, the development of RAW files can be a time-consuming process with many parameters. “Halide Mark II”, which uses Machine Learning to process a iPhone RAW file automatically in 17 steps, improvements in detail, contrast and color adjustments including.

“In a world in which the built-in camera has its own Filter, one is Instant RAW ‘No Filter’module,” explains Lux, the company behind “Halide”. “You are free to use the result directly and to use or to use it as a starting point for editing.”

Design-technically, the App now offers a gesture-based switching between automatic and manual mode, with the objects aimed to focus, in addition, a newly designed focus bar with additional controls, and a revised photo mode, which offers access to a range of relevant meta-data.

Annual subscription or one-time purchase

Anyone who has bought the “Halide”App already, get the Update for free and will receive a year long-all the new features. Who did not have the App yet, now have to grab deeper into the wallet and can decide either for a one-year subscription for 10.99 Euro, or a one-time purchase for 32,99 Euro.

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