Spectre - Make amazing long exposure shots with the help of AI

@chr1s No plans to make an Android app currently.

@chr1s @sdw Not sure if you are just too lazy or too "cool" to only programm for iOS. No matter what, you are excluding not only 3/4 of the mobile device market but also millions and millions of potential users. I will never understand all these lazy iOS only product owner.

@chr1s @sdw @marvinpoo I see it strange too... but also I do understand the complexity of building in 2 different devices natively.

@chr1s @sdw @marvinpoo This app (and also Halide) seems very integrated with the iPhone camera and iOS, so it must be very complicated to make an Android app - considering how the Android market is so fragmented with many different smartphones and OS versions.

@chr1s @sdw @grafician That's a clear mismanagement. It's just like sketch. They started out to be a awesome unique tool until the other 30/40 % of the webdev world wanted a tool like that. Sketch's lazyness in delivering a good product by saying they can't do on a Windows what they do on Mac have cost them their pole position and opened the door for all the awesome market leaders we have today. Bad for sketch, good for the rest of the world.

@huangdun Multiple reviews that the photos are blurry, I wonder what happened.

@huangdun We see that a small subset of users might be running into an autofocus bug. We're investigating! Fortunately we see mostly very positive shots from users.

@huangdun @sdw Happened to me too :(

@huangdun @coconidodev sorry to hear that! I personally do support so pop over an email or a DM on twitter with your iPhone type and iOS version and we'll see if we can get to the bottom of this!

@huangdun @sdw Can you clarify what you mean by "fortunately we see mostly very positive shots from users"? Given that there's likely some amount of ML behind what you're doing, does this mean that you're collecting photos or portions of photos that users are taking? Or are you just referring to anecdotal feedback you've heard from your customers?

@sdw Great UI/UX Sebastiaan both for Spectre and Halide! You're doing a fantastic job with these apps!

@rrhoover Hi! We talk about this a bit here: https://blog.halide.cam/introduc... TLDR: Spectre uses AI smarts on the latest iPhones to allow handheld long exposure with stabilization, and can re-imagine the process of long exposures by taking hundreds of photos rather than a single one. That means we can blend the result, giving you a video of the exposure as well as a still and storing it as a Live Photo. Spectre also uses machine learning to detect the type of subject you're shooting and adapts its blending mode accordingly, so you can get great shots of say, a waterfall with soft water, but at night still get gorgeous light trails.