Happy to be back in Singapore. Walking around the Raffles Hotel area with a new Apple iPhone 6 Plus from Singtel in my pocket, I tried to view the area with a fresh eye and photograph scenes I've not shot before. The results - super clear and colorful pics! Note: to see the images in a higher resolution, click the photos.
Colors from the new iPhone 6 Plus are brighter, more vivid. And the range of light captured appears broader, so both highlights and shadows have those fine wisps of detail that make pictures more appealing, without having to do targeted photo editing. The result is more ease and freedom in photography. But is there any science behind these observations, or are they wishful thinking? Let's take a closer look at the iPhone 6 camera to find out.
Auto image stabilisation.
According to the iPhone website, "Auto image stabilisation makes up for motion blur and hand shakiness by taking four photos with a short exposure time. Then the best parts of those photos are combined into one image with as little noise, subject motion and hand shake as possible." So the image you get is a composite of four photos with multiple sections pasted together to compile the sharpest portions into a single image! Therefore yes, technology brings you clearer, sharper details. You wouldn't imagine that all these actions are happening instantaneously while taking a photo and then seeing the image in a split second. But this is indeed leading edge technology in enhancing photography!
Optical image stabilisation.
According to Apple, "iPhone 6 Plus (note, only the Plus) introduces optical image stabilisation that works with the A8 chip, gyroscope and M8 motion coprocessor to measure motion data and provide precise lens movement to compensate for hand shake in lower light. The fusing together of long- and short-exposure images also helps to reduce subject motion. This unique integration of hardware and software delivers beautiful low-light photos." So again, YES! There is truth behind seeing better dusk and night time photos with the iPhone 6 Plus, as backed up by technology. Note the presence of a miniature gyroscope controlling the lens to compensate for unsteadiness in your hands (or if you were in a car or boat) through detection and measurement of motions then predicting how those motions can be counteracted. The resulting image is again a composite of various shots, even long and shirt exposure ones, to compile the best sections into one photograph. Amazing technology!
if you're deciding between an iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, then check out my previous post:
iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus? Make that choice!
Read to the end and learn an iPhone camera trick that not many know, and which works on earlier iPhone models like the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s.
Amazing designs. Great designers, Developers, Engineers, Project Planners.
Knowing what's going on underneath those shiny metal and virtually flawless glass shells make the iPhones even more impressive than they already are. So much is happening that isn't even visible. But even without knowing the details, one can appreciate the obvious - that the iPhone 3G couldn't become a 3Gs on its own. Nor the iPhone 4 into an iPhone 4s by itself. And not an iPhone 5 into the iPhone 6 Plus by survival of the fittest or trying to recreate itself and "better itself". Impossible! Not in a million billion years. It had to take a creative mind. And one able to execute a flawless design.
For one to believe in Evolution, he would have to believe by faith that ground and dust particles somehow arranged themselves in such a way as to become living cells - living, moving, breathing cells able to identify food, move to food, process food, evacuate the waste generated by food processing, then reproduce, and make itself more and more complex so as to form plants, then sponges, then fish, then animals, then people! Why, that's more than believing an iPhone 5 can become an iPhone 6 Plus all on it's own! That's very strong faith any way you look at it!
In Darwin's time, they didn't have microbiology or have deep understanding of information technology and computer programming. At that time scientists' understanding of cell functions wasn't deep. In fact many believed in the spontaneous generation of life. The proof they used was that dead meat left to rot or bananas left to spoil would produce life as maggots and then flies would come out from them. It was only later when microbiology started to be understood that these worms and flies were determined to only come from flies and insects that laid eggs into the meat and fruits, and if insulated then no maggots and flies came out. But the concept of spontaneous generation of life has lingered with many people, even though it is totally supported by operational science.
Today we have a much better understanding of cell functions and the incredible complexity of living cells. DNA molecules alone are so highly complex, encoded with astounding amounts of information, and we need to recognize that there has to be organic "machinery" to encode the information in DNA, to reproduce the DNA to spread the information, and machinery to read and decode the information. And then there's machinery that carries out the decoded information! Truly amazing! It's easy to take for granted what's going on inside each individual cell, but if you really think about it - believing that people evolved on their own from some primordial soup is akin to believing an iPhone 3G could become an iPhone 6 Plus by itself without any designers, engineers and planners. Too much of a high tale for me, and so I believe in a Creator.
Check out this post for more on the sensibility of believing in a Creator, and what the implications are:
Religion of Evolution, it is a Faith-based belief system.
Neat new camera feature available from the iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5 and also the iPhone 4s!
Exposure can now be controlled more easily with the latest iOS. And because it's software or OS related, it integrates with earlier phone models (thanks to Apple developers). It's quite inconspicuous, and so many have missed that this new feature is available. With this new exposure control, you can lighten or darken the image up to 4 f stops or EV values (photographer speak). This simply means that you have a lot of room to vary the lighting of your photo. Very useful in many situations. How do you activate it? Simply tap any part of the camera display and then you'll see a tiny sun image with vertical lines above and below it; then slide your finger up and down on any part of the display - it doesn't have to be along the lines themselves. You can even lift your finger, look at the photo composition and the brightness, then touch the screen and slide up or down again. And it's easy to fine tune to the brightness you want. Really neat. I appreciate how the Apple developers keep thinking of how to enhance the software, apart from the hardware, and make it widely available!
That's it for now.
All the best on your photo-capturing expeditions.
Let me know if this has helped you, and if you've learned some new thing about your iPhone. Add a comment.
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Colors from the new iPhone 6 Plus are brighter, more vivid. And the range of light captured appears broader, so both highlights and shadows have those fine wisps of detail that make pictures more appealing, without having to do targeted photo editing. The result is more ease and freedom in photography. But is there any science behind these observations, or are they wishful thinking? Let's take a closer look at the iPhone 6 camera to find out.
Auto image stabilisation.
According to the iPhone website, "Auto image stabilisation makes up for motion blur and hand shakiness by taking four photos with a short exposure time. Then the best parts of those photos are combined into one image with as little noise, subject motion and hand shake as possible." So the image you get is a composite of four photos with multiple sections pasted together to compile the sharpest portions into a single image! Therefore yes, technology brings you clearer, sharper details. You wouldn't imagine that all these actions are happening instantaneously while taking a photo and then seeing the image in a split second. But this is indeed leading edge technology in enhancing photography!
Optical image stabilisation.
According to Apple, "iPhone 6 Plus (note, only the Plus) introduces optical image stabilisation that works with the A8 chip, gyroscope and M8 motion coprocessor to measure motion data and provide precise lens movement to compensate for hand shake in lower light. The fusing together of long- and short-exposure images also helps to reduce subject motion. This unique integration of hardware and software delivers beautiful low-light photos." So again, YES! There is truth behind seeing better dusk and night time photos with the iPhone 6 Plus, as backed up by technology. Note the presence of a miniature gyroscope controlling the lens to compensate for unsteadiness in your hands (or if you were in a car or boat) through detection and measurement of motions then predicting how those motions can be counteracted. The resulting image is again a composite of various shots, even long and shirt exposure ones, to compile the best sections into one photograph. Amazing technology!
if you're deciding between an iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, then check out my previous post:
iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus? Make that choice!
Read to the end and learn an iPhone camera trick that not many know, and which works on earlier iPhone models like the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s.
Amazing designs. Great designers, Developers, Engineers, Project Planners.
Knowing what's going on underneath those shiny metal and virtually flawless glass shells make the iPhones even more impressive than they already are. So much is happening that isn't even visible. But even without knowing the details, one can appreciate the obvious - that the iPhone 3G couldn't become a 3Gs on its own. Nor the iPhone 4 into an iPhone 4s by itself. And not an iPhone 5 into the iPhone 6 Plus by survival of the fittest or trying to recreate itself and "better itself". Impossible! Not in a million billion years. It had to take a creative mind. And one able to execute a flawless design.
For one to believe in Evolution, he would have to believe by faith that ground and dust particles somehow arranged themselves in such a way as to become living cells - living, moving, breathing cells able to identify food, move to food, process food, evacuate the waste generated by food processing, then reproduce, and make itself more and more complex so as to form plants, then sponges, then fish, then animals, then people! Why, that's more than believing an iPhone 5 can become an iPhone 6 Plus all on it's own! That's very strong faith any way you look at it!
In Darwin's time, they didn't have microbiology or have deep understanding of information technology and computer programming. At that time scientists' understanding of cell functions wasn't deep. In fact many believed in the spontaneous generation of life. The proof they used was that dead meat left to rot or bananas left to spoil would produce life as maggots and then flies would come out from them. It was only later when microbiology started to be understood that these worms and flies were determined to only come from flies and insects that laid eggs into the meat and fruits, and if insulated then no maggots and flies came out. But the concept of spontaneous generation of life has lingered with many people, even though it is totally supported by operational science.
Today we have a much better understanding of cell functions and the incredible complexity of living cells. DNA molecules alone are so highly complex, encoded with astounding amounts of information, and we need to recognize that there has to be organic "machinery" to encode the information in DNA, to reproduce the DNA to spread the information, and machinery to read and decode the information. And then there's machinery that carries out the decoded information! Truly amazing! It's easy to take for granted what's going on inside each individual cell, but if you really think about it - believing that people evolved on their own from some primordial soup is akin to believing an iPhone 3G could become an iPhone 6 Plus by itself without any designers, engineers and planners. Too much of a high tale for me, and so I believe in a Creator.
Check out this post for more on the sensibility of believing in a Creator, and what the implications are:
Religion of Evolution, it is a Faith-based belief system.
Neat new camera feature available from the iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5 and also the iPhone 4s!
Exposure can now be controlled more easily with the latest iOS. And because it's software or OS related, it integrates with earlier phone models (thanks to Apple developers). It's quite inconspicuous, and so many have missed that this new feature is available. With this new exposure control, you can lighten or darken the image up to 4 f stops or EV values (photographer speak). This simply means that you have a lot of room to vary the lighting of your photo. Very useful in many situations. How do you activate it? Simply tap any part of the camera display and then you'll see a tiny sun image with vertical lines above and below it; then slide your finger up and down on any part of the display - it doesn't have to be along the lines themselves. You can even lift your finger, look at the photo composition and the brightness, then touch the screen and slide up or down again. And it's easy to fine tune to the brightness you want. Really neat. I appreciate how the Apple developers keep thinking of how to enhance the software, apart from the hardware, and make it widely available!
That's it for now.
All the best on your photo-capturing expeditions.
Let me know if this has helped you, and if you've learned some new thing about your iPhone. Add a comment.
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
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