Tootfinder

Przybliżenia historia mojej amatorskiej fotografii telefonem:
1. Kiepskie zdjęcia. Niezdrowe zamiłowanie do (niskiej rozdzielczości) panoram.
2. Trochę lepsze zdjęcia. Czasem zdjęcia HDR (podejrzewam ustawienie na "auto").
3. Nowy telefon. Wyższa rozdzielczość i żyroskop.
4. Zmiana oprogramowania na LineageOS, i aplikacji na #OpenCamera. HDR załączone już na stałe.

An approximate history of my amateur phone photography:
1. Really poor photos. Unsavory interest in (low resolution) panoramas.
2. Photos get a little better. Sometimes they're HDRs (I suspect the camera app was set to "auto").
3. A new phone. Higher resolution and a gyroscope.
4. Switching to LineageOS, and therefore to #OpenCamera. HDR enabled unconditionally.
5. HDR does not always come great (compared to the stock Motorola app that doesn't work anymore). I enable saving component photos, so I could try getting a better quality combination using the PC. I never manage that.
6. I start experimenting with exposure correction (combined with HDR). Sometimes I do multiple photos with different "Eves" to choose the best one.
7. A new phone. Finally, given even the gyroscope was failing already.
8. I learn that Pixels have "HDR " that gets activated when you do standard mode photos. For a while I do both standard and HDR photos; also I compare the middle component image with the standard mode image. [https://opencamera.sourceforge.io/help.html#faq]
9. Before I reach any final conclusions, I read "What is HDR, anyway?" I disable HDR entirely, instead I save standard mode (i.e. HDR ) raw images (which presumably aren't affected by HDR ) [https://www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/]. Not that I ever managed to get anything good out of raws.
10. I discover that I can switch the lens. Today I've made my first photos, switching lens to get optical zoom 💪.

Niedawno przypadkiem pacnąłem w #OpenCamera tę ikonkę z symbolem aparatu i plusika, co jakoś nigdy mnie nie zainteresowała, i odkryłem, że pozwala przełączać pomiędzy różnymi obiektywami! Przede wszystkim, pozwala korzystać z "ultra szerokiego" obiektywu, który nadaje się do zdjęć z bliska, jak na przykład Ru na mojej klacie.
Wygląda na to, że Open Camera domyślnie samo przełącza p…

Recently I accidentally tapped the seemingly uninteresting button with the symbol of camera and a plus sign, in #OpenCamera, and discovered that it allows me to switch between different lens! Notably, it allows me to select the "ultrawide" lens that make for better shots of close up objects like Ruh the chestcat.
Apparently, Open Camera selects lens automatically based on zoom level. And I was kinda wondering why it allowed me to zoom out below 1x zoom, but I've figured out it must be some dark magic and never used it.