Comments on: Stop iPhone HDR from Saving Two Photos

By: 6 Tips for Taking Better Macro Photos with the iPhone Camera

6 Tips for Taking Better Macro Photos with the iPhone Camera — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:07:54 +0000

[...] be sure to have “Keep Original” left on so that you can decide which picture is the [...]

By: Devy

Devy — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:34:50 +0000

“iPhone’s HDR mode takes great pictures, there’s no doubt about that.” That’s an overstatement, as HDR is an algorithmic way to blend in multiple images at different exposure settings, there are definitely times where it doesn’t blend in right. I personally experienced that there are more times in low-light condition where HDR would introduce artifacts like “ghosting” and losing sharp edge details than what HDR is good at: expose correctly in partial area of the photo. So leaving an normally exposed photo would at least give you a change to see and compare. Oh yeah, since 3 images are blended in, HDR is about 1.5x-3x bigger than the normal one. Plus what Tinman says is true. Using HDR means you have to hold it a bit longer for iPhone to shoot 3 images – when that’s a slower shutter speed in low-condition, you odds of smearing the photo / ghosting due to premature movement is pretty high!

By: Tinman

Tinman — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:47:03 +0000

Be careful if turning off the saving of two photos. Since there is a delay between the capturing of the two images used to create the HDR photo if there is movement the HDR image can come out poor to unusable whereas the non-HDR image is fine. If you turned off the saving of both photos you would never be able to get to the usable image.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:38:29 +0000

I kind of think the opposite, normal is better than HDR with the iPhones camera. Hopefully the next 8MP will be even better