About Halide Mark II - Pro Camera
**Please note Halide is not free. We offer a 7-day free trial for annual memberships. Don't like subscriptions? You can also buy the app outright with a single in-app purchase.** Halide is an Apple Design Award winning,...
**Please note Halide is not free. We offer a 7-day free trial for annual memberships. Don't like subscriptions? You can also buy the app outright with a single in-app purchase.**
Halide is an Apple Design Award winning, acclaimed camera from the team behind Spectre, Apple's App of the Year of 2019.
Halide is the most powerful camera for iPhone with the most elegant, simple design — A pro camera for everyone.
This is a groundbreaking app for deliberate and thoughtful photography. With high-end tools, and a beautiful interface designed from scratch for the latest iPhones and inspired by the controls of professional cameras, Halide is your go-to camera when you want to really take a photo rather than a quick snapshot.
Use gestures in Halide to change exposure and manual focus with a swipe, or switch from its powerful automatic mode to manual shooting. Halide’s professional tools are the most powerful in the App Store, with XDR (Extended Dynamic Range) 14-bit RAW streaming waveform views, color zebras, focus assists like focus peaking and loupe, histograms, an adaptive level grid, and manual depth capture. Customize controls to adapt the app to your needs.
Halide’s ProRAW support* is unmatched. Strike the right balance between file size and editing latitude by choosing between 12-bit and 10-bit ProRAW, with or without JPEG sidecars. Effortlessly switch to native RAW, for greater detail and speed.
Features:
- Beautiful, intuitive gesture-based interface, usable with one hand
- Take portraits of pets and objects on single-camera phones, like iPhone XR and iPhone SE
- Manual focus, and powerful tools like a Focus Loupe and Focus Peaking
- Smart automatic mode with Halide Smart RAW, optimizing settings with Machine Learning for RAW files with less noise and more detail
- Full manual exposure controls including shutter speed, ISO and white balance
- Best-on-iPhone exposure tools: histograms, XDR 14-bit RGB waveform, and color zebra stripes
- Captures RAW, TIFF, HEIC or JPG for the best quality shots
- Grid overlay with built-in level
- A powerful reviewer to view DNG, JPG, HEIC and Live Photos, as well as Portrait depth data and mattes, with a detailed metadata view - with batch export!
- Instant RAW development process to quickly develop your RAW files in a tap
- Technical Readout to view all details of your iPhone camera hardware
- Apple Watch companion app for remote shooting
- Siri Shortcuts support to trigger the shutter remotely, or open Halide in Auto or Manual mode
- Become a better photographer by signing up for comprehensive lessons like a 10-day quick tutorial right from the app.
- Private by Design: Halide does not include any trackers or tracking, has not third party libraries, does not collect data or photos, and never transmits any information. Halide also includes features to reduce spying by companies like Facebook by limiting location information on photos shared from the app.
- Feature limitations:
*ProRAW requires iPhone 12 Pro or Pro Max or newer
The Ultra Wide and selfie cameras do not support RAW or manual focus unless on iOS 15.
Waveform requires iPhone 8 or newer
Depth Capture requires iPhone 7 Plus or newer
Terms of Use can be found here: https://halide.cam/terms
Privacy: https://halide.cam/privacy
Jan 25, 2024
Version 2.14.4
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes. OK boss, I just copy pasted the generic release notes in the box on the website we're good to go. Oops, did I type that in here? Wrong window.
Hello, Halide family! We noticed a bug that affected RAW capture for the 2× lens on some iPhones. If you previously saw some behavior there that prevented you from taking RAW shots, try again now. If you have any other issues, don't hesitate to reach out to
[email protected]. In the meantime, we're also hard at work on... a new app that complements Halide exceptionally well. Follow the journey on our social media channels if you're interested!
To recap our last big update...
====
Hello Halide users! Halide 2.14 is here, and it’s an appropriate Winter update. For those of you that know macOS history, you can see Halide 2.14 as a ‘Snow Leopard’ update — while there’s no big feature changes that are visible, the actual app is significantly faster, more reliable, and better.
DEFERRED PROCESSING
In addition to our Zero Shutter Lag feature that reduces delay of capturing a shot to near-zero, we now save those photos faster than ever. In the past, if you took certain types of photos that take seconds to process (we’re looking at you 48 megapixel photos), then if you kept hitting the capture button, your iPhone would get overwhelmed and stop letting you take more photos. Not fun.
With deferred processing, your iPhone now waits to finish processing your photos until you’ve given it a few seconds to rest and take a breath. This helps prevent you from missing that one perfect shot!
REVIEW REVAMP
Sometimes our image reviewer would load slowly right after taking a photo. This is frustrating when you want to check on your shot — a thing most of us do on a regular basis. Thanks to some serious engineering work by Ben, the reviewer can now show images nearly instantly — and even shows a pre-processed image before the processing has completed. It even has a snazzy processing indicator so you can see your image is being ‘worked on’ by the system before it is ready.
A fun note: this review revamp is so fast that we had to add an artificial delay to test the new processing indicator. It’s really very quick. It is our best photo reviewer yet, and we think you are going to love it.
FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS
Oops, this is starting to look like far too substantial a release note. Does anyone even read these? (if you do, leave us a review on the App Store! it really helps out.) Time for the generic boilerplate:
Thanks for using Halide! We update our app regularly to make it better for you. This update includes:
- Performance improvements for smoother and faster experience.
- Bug fixes to ensure a more reliable app.
- Minor enhancements to improve usability.
We hope your 2024 is off to a great start. We know we have an exciting year planned for Halide!
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Halide Mark II - Pro Camera since it was posted on our website on 2020-05-31 22:50:17.
The latest version is 2.14.4 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 09:20:12. See below the changes in each version.
Halide Mark II - Pro Camera version 2.14.4
Updated At: 2024-01-25
Changes: Jan 25, 2024
Version 2.14.4
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes. OK boss, I just copy pasted the generic release notes in the box on the website we're good to go. Oops, did I type that in here? Wrong window.
Hello, Halide family! We noticed a bug that affected RAW capture for the 2× lens on some iPhones. If you previously saw some behavior there that prevented you from taking RAW shots, try again now. If you have any other issues, don't hesitate to reach out to
[email protected]. In the meantime, we're also hard at work on... a new app that complements Halide exceptionally well. Follow the journey on our social media channels if you're interested!
To recap our last big update...
====
Hello Halide users! Halide 2.14 is here, and it’s an appropriate Winter update. For those of you that know macOS history, you can see Halide 2.14 as a ‘Snow Leopard’ update — while there’s no big feature changes that are visible, the actual app is significantly faster, more reliable, and better.
DEFERRED PROCESSING
In addition to our Zero Shutter Lag feature that reduces delay of capturing a shot to near-zero, we now save those photos faster than ever. In the past, if you took certain types of photos that take seconds to process (we’re looking at you 48 megapixel photos), then if you kept hitting the capture button, your iPhone would get overwhelmed and stop letting you take more photos. Not fun.
With deferred processing, your iPhone now waits to finish processing your photos until you’ve given it a few seconds to rest and take a breath. This helps prevent you from missing that one perfect shot!
REVIEW REVAMP
Sometimes our image reviewer would load slowly right after taking a photo. This is frustrating when you want to check on your shot — a thing most of us do on a regular basis. Thanks to some serious engineering work by Ben, the reviewer can now show images nearly instantly — and even shows a pre-processed image before the processing has completed. It even has a snazzy processing indicator so you can see your image is being ‘worked on’ by the system before it is ready.
A fun note: this review revamp is so fast that we had to add an artificial delay to test the new processing indicator. It’s really very quick. It is our best photo reviewer yet, and we think you are going to love it.
FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS
Oops, this is starting to look like far too substantial a release note. Does anyone even read these? (if you do, leave us a review on the App Store! it really helps out.) Time for the generic boilerplate:
Thanks for using Halide! We update our app regularly to make it better for you. This update includes:
- Performance improvements for smoother and faster experience.
- Bug fixes to ensure a more reliable app.
- Minor enhancements to improve usability.
We hope your 2024 is off to a great start. We know we have an exciting year planned for Halide!
Halide Mark II - Pro Camera version 2.14.3
Updated At: 2024-01-13
Changes: Jan 13, 2024
Version 2.14.3
Hey friends! We have a small update that fixes a crash on the iPhone 15, and fixes our custom action behavior in iOS 17.2. If you have any other issues, don't hesitate to reach out to
[email protected].
To recap our last big update...
====
Hello Halide users! Halide 2.14 is here, and it’s an appropriate Winter update. For those of you that know macOS history, you can see Halide 2.14 as a ‘Snow Leopard’ update — while there’s no big feature changes that are visible, the actual app is significantly faster, more reliable, and better.
DEFERRED PROCESSING
In addition to our Zero Shutter Lag feature that reduces delay of capturing a shot to near-zero, we now save those photos faster than ever. In the past, if you took certain types of photos that take seconds to process (we’re looking at you 48 megapixel photos), then if you kept hitting the capture button, your iPhone would get overwhelmed and stop letting you take more photos. Not fun.
With deferred processing, your iPhone now waits to finish processing your photos until you’ve given it a few seconds to rest and take a breath. This helps prevent you from missing that one perfect shot!
REVIEW REVAMP
Sometimes our image reviewer would load slowly right after taking a photo. This is frustrating when you want to check on your shot — a thing most of us do on a regular basis. Thanks to some serious engineering work by Ben, the reviewer can now show images nearly instantly — and even shows a pre-processed image before the processing has completed. It even has a snazzy processing indicator so you can see your image is being ‘worked on’ by the system before it is ready.
A fun note: this review revamp is so fast that we had to add an artificial delay to test the new processing indicator. It’s really very quick. It is our best photo reviewer yet, and we think you are going to love it.
FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS
Oops, this is starting to look like far too substantial a release note. Does anyone even read these? (if you do, leave us a review on the App Store! it really helps out.) Time for the generic boilerplate:
Thanks for using Halide! We update our app regularly to make it better for you. This update includes:
- Performance improvements for smoother and faster experience.
- Bug fixes to ensure a more reliable app.
- Minor enhancements to improve usability.
We hope your 2024 is off to a great start. We know we have an exciting year planned for Halide!
Halide Mark II - Pro Camera version 2.14.2
Updated At: 2023-12-21
Changes: Dec 21, 2023
Version 2.14.2
Hi folks — this is a special minor holiday update. For those of you that are short on time: we now support more reliable capture with the volume button on iOS 17.2 and above. That's it. This update also includes fixes in case you saw us ask if you wanted to enroll in lessons a bit too quickly. We hope you have some fantastic holidays and a very happy end of the year!
***
Still with us? Got some time? OK: for the last years (we are talking 10+ years) it was actually not possible to take a photo with the volume buttons. "Wait, App Store Release Note, that's not true" you will say, "I even took a photo with the volume button in Halide this morning!"
Yes, this is true. Halide has been able to do this since v1.1 which we released in August 22, 2017! The way this worked, however, was by 'listening' to your volume and if it changed. If the volume increased or decreased, Halide would take a photo. We couldn't check if you pressed the button. This led to funny situation: the volume doesn't change if you press 'volume up' at 100% volume, or 'volume down' at 0%. Very perceive users might have noticed that Halide can slightly change your volume when you open it at 100% — that would be why.
As of iOS 17.2, Apple has (finally?) introduced an API for volume button capture, and our long journey has come to a close. Now, iPhones on older versions of iOS will still use this old volume changing behavior, but on iOS 17.2 we will be able to more reliably, and simply, take photos when you press a volume button. Thanks for coming to our TED Talk and happy holidays!
====
Hello Halide users! Halide 2.14 is here, and it’s an appropriate Winter update. For those of you that know macOS history, you can see Halide 2.14 as a ‘Snow Leopard’ update — while there’s no big feature changes that are visible, the actual app is significantly faster, more reliable, and better.
DEFERRED PROCESSING
In addition to our Zero Shutter Lag feature that reduces delay of capturing a shot to near-zero, we now save those photos faster than ever. In the past, if you took certain types of photos that take seconds to process (we’re looking at you 48 megapixel photos), then if you kept hitting the capture button, your iPhone would get overwhelmed and stop letting you take more photos. Not fun.
With deferred processing, your iPhone now waits to finish processing your photos until you’ve given it a few seconds to rest and take a breath. This helps prevent you from missing that one perfect shot!
REVIEW REVAMP
Sometimes our image reviewer would load slowly right after taking a photo. This is frustrating when you want to check on your shot — a thing most of us do on a regular basis. Thanks to some serious engineering work by Ben, the reviewer can now show images nearly instantly — and even shows a pre-processed image before the processing has completed. It even has a snazzy processing indicator so you can see your image is being ‘worked on’ by the system before it is ready.
A fun note: this review revamp is so fast that we had to add an artificial delay to test the new processing indicator. It’s really very quick. It is our best photo reviewer yet, and we think you are going to love it.
FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS
Oops, this is starting to look like far too substantial a release note. Does anyone even read these? (if you do, leave us a review on the App Store! it really helps out.) Time for the generic boilerplate:
Thanks for using Halide! We update our app regularly to make it better for you. This update includes:
- Performance improvements for smoother and faster experience.
- Bug fixes to ensure a more reliable app.
- Minor enhancements to improve usability.
Thank you all! We hope you have a great holiday season, and we’re excited to show you all we have in stock for you in 2024.
Halide Mark II - Pro Camera version 2.13.6
Updated At: 2023-11-09
Changes: Nov 9, 2023
Version 2.13.6
We're constantly working to make the app better based on your feedback and bug reports!
This update:
- Fixes a screen layout issue on older versions of iOS.
- Adds a few missing translations.
Remember, if you're running into problems, you can always reach our tiny team via in-app support or just an email to
[email protected]. We're here to help, and we're working really hard on making the app great. If you love Halide, please leave us a review in the App Store! It really helps.
----
Back to the big update:
Lights. Camera. Action Button.
Halide 2.13 is here, and it’s an especially powerful update for all our iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max users. Not only do we pack in support to get the best shots from your new cameras — we enable you to do something that no camera on an iPhone has ever been able to do.
Let’s dig in.
ACTION BUTTON AND IN-APP TRIGGERS
Action button on iPhone lets you quickly call up an app from anywhere or even perform a set of actions with a Shortcut. But Halide takes this even further: with the new Action Button menu in Halide, you can configure your Action button to trigger Halide features. Outside of Halide, pressing the Action button will open Halide, but in Halide, it can:
- Toggle manual or autofocus
- Cycle through your lenses
- Switch between auto and manual exposure modes
- Switch between 12 and 48MP capture modes
- Toggle RAW capture
- and even capture a photo! (though, with a delay - we suggest using the volume button instead)
We also offer a quick setup and help with configuring the Action button to just open Halide with no triggers, or a custom Halide Shortcut that opens a menu with various options like Silent mode, Flashlight, Rotation Lock, Camera Video, Camera Photo and Halide*.
This lets you set up and use the new button in ways you’ve never even imagined. We’re really excited to see what you think and how you’re going to be using it!
*please note that using other actions or shortcuts than ‘Open Halide with In-App Triggers’ will disable In-App Triggers.
ZERO SHUTTER LAG
When you tap capture, it will immediately capture what was in the viewfinder. Note: it cannot support the following modes:
- Flash Photos
- Manual-Exposure
- Dual-Camera Depth Photos (i.e. “Constituent Photo Delivery”)
- Bracket captures (e.g. SmartRAW)
RESPONSIVE CAPTURE
When you smash that capture button, we may temporarily reduce quality to prioritize speed and ensure you don't lose any shots. You can disable this in settings.
HDR RENDERING
We now render HDR in the photo reviewer
WE'D LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK!
If you love Halide, consider leaving a review. They go a long way! If you have any issues or other feedback, please let us know at
[email protected].
Halide Mark II - Pro Camera version 2.13.5
Updated At: 2023-11-01
Changes: Nov 1, 2023
Version 2.13.5
We're constantly working to make the app better based on your feedback and bug reports!
This update:
- Fixes a rare issue where locking and unlocking your iPhone causes the layout to appear wonky.
- Fixes a home screen widget sometimes not loading with the correct zoom factor.
- Improves some camera plumbing, which helps our support person diagnose problems.
Remember, if you're running into problems, you can always reach our tiny team via in-app support or just an email to
[email protected]. We're here to help, and we're working really hard on making the app great. If you love Halide, please leave us a review in the App Store! It really helps.
----
Back to the big update:
Lights. Camera. Action Button.
Halide 2.13 is here, and it’s an especially powerful update for all our iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max users. Not only do we pack in support to get the best shots from your new cameras — we enable you to do something that no camera on an iPhone has ever been able to do.
Let’s dig in.
ACTION BUTTON AND IN-APP TRIGGERS
Action button on iPhone lets you quickly call up an app from anywhere or even perform a set of actions with a Shortcut. But Halide takes this even further: with the new Action Button menu in Halide, you can configure your Action button to trigger Halide features. Outside of Halide, pressing the Action button will open Halide, but in Halide, it can:
- Toggle manual or autofocus
- Cycle through your lenses
- Switch between auto and manual exposure modes
- Switch between 12 and 48MP capture modes
- Toggle RAW capture
- and even capture a photo! (though, with a delay - we suggest using the volume button instead)
We also offer a quick setup and help with configuring the Action button to just open Halide with no triggers, or a custom Halide Shortcut that opens a menu with various options like Silent mode, Flashlight, Rotation Lock, Camera Video, Camera Photo and Halide*.
This lets you set up and use the new button in ways you’ve never even imagined. We’re really excited to see what you think and how you’re going to be using it!
*please note that using other actions or shortcuts than ‘Open Halide with In-App Triggers’ will disable In-App Triggers.
ZERO SHUTTER LAG
When you tap capture, it will immediately capture what was in the viewfinder. Note: it cannot support the following modes:
- Flash Photos
- Manual-Exposure
- Dual-Camera Depth Photos (i.e. “Constituent Photo Delivery”)
- Bracket captures (e.g. SmartRAW)
RESPONSIVE CAPTURE
When you smash that capture button, we may temporarily reduce quality to prioritize speed and ensure you don't lose any shots. You can disable this in settings.
HDR RENDERING
We now render HDR in the photo reviewer
WE'D LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK!
If you love Halide, consider leaving a review. They go a long way! If you have any issues or other feedback, please let us know at
[email protected].
Halide Mark II - Pro Camera version 2.13.4
Updated At: 2023-10-25
Changes: Oct 25, 2023
Version 2.13.4
We're constantly working to make the app better based on your feedback and bug reports!
This update:
- Fixes an issue where the format button and / or control readout in the top were being cropped by the screen cutout on iPhone 13 and 14 series phones
- Addresses a rare issue in manual mode with the flashlight
- Fixes an issue where phones on older versions of iOS would sometimes run into an error while taking a photo in landscape mode or other situations
Remember, if you're running into problems, you can always reach our tiny team via in-app support or just an email to
[email protected]. We're here to help, and we're working really hard on making the app great. If you love Halide, please leave us a review in the App Store! It really helps.
----
Back to the big update:
Lights. Camera. Action Button.
Halide 2.13 is here, and it’s an especially powerful update for all our iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max users. Not only do we pack in support to get the best shots from your new cameras — we enable you to do something that no camera on an iPhone has ever been able to do.
Let’s dig in.
ACTION BUTTON AND IN-APP TRIGGERS
Action button on iPhone lets you quickly call up an app from anywhere or even perform a set of actions with a Shortcut. But Halide takes this even further: with the new Action Button menu in Halide, you can configure your Action button to trigger Halide features. Outside of Halide, pressing the Action button will open Halide, but in Halide, it can:
- Toggle manual or autofocus
- Cycle through your lenses
- Switch between auto and manual exposure modes
- Switch between 12 and 48MP capture modes
- Toggle RAW capture
- and even capture a photo! (though, with a delay - we suggest using the volume button instead)
We also offer a quick setup and help with configuring the Action button to just open Halide with no triggers, or a custom Halide Shortcut that opens a menu with various options like Silent mode, Flashlight, Rotation Lock, Camera Video, Camera Photo and Halide*.
This lets you set up and use the new button in ways you’ve never even imagined. We’re really excited to see what you think and how you’re going to be using it!
*please note that using other actions or shortcuts than ‘Open Halide with In-App Triggers’ will disable In-App Triggers.
ZERO SHUTTER LAG
When you tap capture, it will immediately capture what was in the viewfinder. Note: it cannot support the following modes:
- Flash Photos
- Manual-Exposure
- Dual-Camera Depth Photos (i.e. “Constituent Photo Delivery”)
- Bracket captures (e.g. SmartRAW)
RESPONSIVE CAPTURE
When you smash that capture button, we may temporarily reduce quality to prioritize speed and ensure you don't lose any shots. You can disable this in settings.
HDR RENDERING
We now render HDR in the photo reviewer
WE'D LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK!
If you love Halide, consider leaving a review. They go a long way! If you have any issues or other feedback, please let us know at
[email protected].
Halide Mark II - Pro Camera version 2.13.0
Updated At: 2023-10-04
Changes: Oct 4, 2023
Version 2.13.0
Lights. Camera. Action Button.
Halide 2.13 is here, and it’s an especially powerful update for all our iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max users. Not only do we pack in support to get the best shots from your new cameras — we enable you to do something that no camera on an iPhone has ever been able to do.
Let’s dig in.
ACTION BUTTON AND IN-APP TRIGGERS
Action button on iPhone lets you quickly call up an app from anywhere or even perform a set of actions with a Shortcut. But Halide takes this even further: with the new Action Button menu in Halide, you can configure your Action button to trigger Halide features. Outside of Halide, pressing the Action button will open Halide, but in Halide, it can:
- Toggle manual or autofocus
- Cycle through your lenses
- Switch between auto and manual exposure modes
- Switch between 12 and 48MP capture modes
- Toggle RAW capture
- and even capture a photo! (though, with a delay - we suggest using the volume button instead)
We also offer a quick setup and help with configuring the Action button to just open Halide with no triggers, or a custom Halide Shortcut that opens a menu with various options like Silent mode, Flashlight, Rotation Lock, Camera Video, Camera Photo and Halide*.
This lets you set up and use the new button in ways you’ve never even imagined. We’re really excited to see what you think and how you’re going to be using it!
*please note that using other actions or shortcuts than ‘Open Halide with In-App Triggers’ will disable In-App Triggers.
ZERO SHUTTER LAG
When you tap capture, it will immediately capture what was in the viewfinder. Note: it cannot support the following modes:
- Flash Photos
- Manual-Exposure
- Dual-Camera Depth Photos (i.e. “Constituent Photo Delivery”)
- Bracket captures (e.g. SmartRAW)
RESPONSIVE CAPTURE
When you smash that capture button, we may temporarily reduce quality to prioritize speed and ensure you don't lose any shots. You can disable this in settings.
HDR RENDERING
We now render HDR in the photo reviewer.
WE'D LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK!
If you love Halide, consider leaving a review. They go a long way! If you have any issues or other feedback, please let us know at
[email protected].
Halide Mark II - Pro Camera version 2.12.0
Updated At: 2023-09-18
Changes: Sep 18, 2023
Version 2.12.0
HALIDE 2.12: EXTRA RESPONSE
It's that special time of year when new devices arrive from Cupertino, along with a big OS update to support them. But these updates can also breath new life into existing phones, and we're harnessing that with Halide 2.12. For a long, detailed description of what's new (with photos), be sure to check out our website, https://lux.camera, but read on for a summary that fits in release notes!
ZERO SHUTTER LAG
In the past, when you pressed that capture button, what you saw in your viewfinder wasn't always the photo that got captured. In the best case, it would capture the *next* image that arrived at your sensor. With this update, no more!
Behind the scenes, your iPhone is constantly capturing photos-- it just isn't doing anything with them. Now when you press that capture button, your iPhone look back on those recently photos and figures out which one was visible in the viewfinder at the time. Now what you see is what you get!
Zero Shutter Lag is not available in every capture configuration. For more details, check out our website.
RESPONSIVE CAPTURE
When you have all of the iPhone's advanced photo processing enabled, if you quickly smash that capture button, you'll find that the iPhone has difficulty keeping up. Rather than crash, your iPhone stops taking photos for a moment while it catches up. Unfortunately, this could cause you to miss the perfect photo. No more!
With responsive capture-- which is enabled by default-- your iPhone will dynamically cut down on processing when it detects that you're capturing a lot of photos at once. You may lose Deep Fusion and SmartHDR, but at least you won't lose the shot. If you don't like this behavior, and want to ensure all processing happens all the time, there's a setting to turn this off.
HDR RENDERING
In the last few years, new devices have been released that can display bright images than ever before. You'll really notice this when you take a photo of a very bright object, like a lightbulb. It just seems to pop more on "High Dynamic Range" (HDR) screens.
Believe it or not, for years iPhones have been capturing photos that contain this extra brightness, and saving them in your photos. You wouldn't know, because there was no way for outside developers to actually show these HDR photos. Until now! With our latest Halide update, the highlights in your HDR images will now show in all their brightness.
BUG FIXES
With every OS update comes new features and new... surprises... we had to fix. This update contains those fixes, such as our widgets having their borders cropped incorrectly. Hey, we aren't perfect, so we've also taken some time to address our own bugs. For example, we rewrote our icon picker screen to fix layout glitches.
If you run into anything we haven't caught, be sure to email us at
[email protected], and we'll get right on it. And don't forget to tag your photos #ShotWithHalide for a chance to be featured in our social media accounts.
We hope you enjoy this first update of fall, because we have a lot more in store!
— Team Lux
Halide Mark II - Pro Camera version 2.11.3
Updated At: 2023-04-18
Changes: Apr 18, 2023
Version 2.11.3
This small update fixes an issue with lens switching on older devices.
Halide Mark II - Pro Camera version 2.11.1
Updated At: 2023-02-28
Changes: Feb 28, 2023
Version 2.11.1
This small update includes a few bug fixes from our last major release. If you ran into issues setting manual exposure times, this update is for you! If not, you can still enjoy our updated localizations and other small fixes.
This update builds on our last huge release...
HALIDE 2.11: NEURAL TELEPHOTO
This update goes out to the regular, non Pro iPhone users who need a little extra detail in their shots. Why should the iPhone Pro have all the zoom-fun? We're excited to launch a feature we call "Neural Telephoto."
Neural Telephoto gives non-Pro iPhones that lack a physical telephoto lens a new power. Think of it as a virtual telephoto lens. Normally, when you zoom in on an image using software, you get blurry results, and diagonal lines look a bit jagged. With Neural Telephoto, we enhance details in zoomed shots by applying the same machine-learning system that powers our acclaimed macro mode — giving you a new, virtual 2× lens for free!
Obviously software can't beat a real telephoto lens on an iPhone Pro, but Neural Telephoto preserves details better than most software. We’re excited to finally bring a feature to our non-Pro iPhone users, too. We think you all deserve it.
A note for the Pros: Neural Telephoto shots will be zoomed and enhanced using machine learning in HEIC and JPEG, but will capture an unedited, unzoomed full RAW file for you to adjust if you so desire. By default, Halide will shoot in RAW + JPEG mode, which will give you an un-altered RAW file along with a zoomed and enhanced JPEG file. We think it’s the best of both worlds; no surprises or less-than-RAW output.
This update also brings small design enhancements and improvements throughout for all our users.
Whew, that’s it! Let us know what you think and share your Neural Telephoto shots with us! Find us on Instagram at @halidecamera, on Twtiter as @halideapp and new: you can also follow us on Mastodon at
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If you have any issues or suggestions, please let us know at
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