As I thought about how almost absurdly good the iPhone6 is in low light, I became concerned this was only available in the Apple camera app. I just took pictures on the inside of my cabinet (it's quite dark) and did a side-by-side test of the Apple Camera app and an app taken inside Pic!
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| taken inside Apple Camera app |
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| Taken inside Pic! |
Thankfully, whatever low-light mojo is going on under the hood, is the default for 3rd party developers. For fun I also tried posterizing it to see how the noise looked, and the "random dithered" nature of the noise has a cool look to my eye.
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| Posterization inside Pic! |
Just so my blog doesn't devolve into a Apple Fanboy festival, note that as an App Extension our app often crashes in the real phone but is fine with all the simulators. Not surprising for a new feature (and in our case a new language: Swift), but it appears this is Apple's bug. We eagerly await iOS 8.01. But the app seems to work great as an app, so far from a wipe-out. The other two apps with photo extensions we are aware of (
Camera+ and
Fragment) are faring a little better, and it would be nice to see if they are written in Swift or Objective-C. Further if you search the Apple Store for "Pic!" it doesn't find our app. Talk about an app discovery problem! So search for "Pixio" or use this
link.
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