{"id":30524,"date":"2020-10-22T15:59:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30524"},"modified":"2020-10-23T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:09:50","slug":"halide-mark-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/22\/halide-mark-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Halide Mark II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.halide.cam\/introducing-halide-mkii-30f9f2bceac3\">Ben Sandofsky<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=24860043\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.halide.cam\/introducing-halide-mkii-30f9f2bceac3\">\n<p>With all that in mind, we&rsquo;re confident launching Halide Mark II at $36 (for new users). To celebrate the launch, we are discounting it to $30.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Pay-Once is not going away, but we&rsquo;ve decided to offer an alternative that fits quite well into our long term plans. We&rsquo;re calling it a membership. We think there are three reasons to consider a membership.<\/p>\n<p>First, there&rsquo;s price. $11.99 per year. [&#8230;] Second, memberships include perks above and beyond the core Halide experience, like exclusive icons.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has already paid for Halide 1 gets Mark II for free. We&rsquo;re <em>also<\/em> including a year of members&rsquo; updates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/halide-mark-ii-review-the-convenience-of-computational-photography-and-flexibility-of-raw-in-an-elegant-camera-app\/\">John Voorhees<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/halide-mark-ii-review-the-convenience-of-computational-photography-and-flexibility-of-raw-in-an-elegant-camera-app\/\"><p>The latest update is an ambitious reimagining of what was already a premier camera app, building on what came before but with a simpler and easier to learn UI. Halide Mark II puts more control than ever into the hands of photographers, while also making it easy to achieve beautiful results with minimal effort. Halide also seeks to educate through a combination of design and upcoming in-app photography lessons.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite changes to Halide is its focus control. Auto-focus is on by default, but you can swipe right on the control to manually set focus. When you enter manual focus mode, a magnifier loupe appears onscreen that zooms in on the center of the viewfinder, making it easier to precisely dial in focus. There&rsquo;s also a button to turn the focusing loupe on full time and a focus peaking button to visualize focus status.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Instead of saving the RAW and compressed images at the same time, which is what RAW+ does, Coverage takes two separate shots one after the other &#x2013; one RAW, one compressed &#x2013; and then saves them together in the same file as just like RAW+. The advantage is a higher-quality compressed image that can take advantage of Apple&rsquo;s Smart HDR and Deep Fusion processing. The disadvantage is that it takes a little longer for the camera to take two shots in a row, which is why the feature is turned off by default.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Sandofsky (Hacker News): With all that in mind, we&rsquo;re confident launching Halide Mark II at $36 (for new users). To celebrate the launch, we are discounting it to $30. [&#8230;] Pay-Once is not going away, but we&rsquo;ve decided to offer an alternative that fits quite well into our long term plans. 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