Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Just read a blurb on it and it supposedly allows one to take 18 MP, 24 MP, and 32MP image files with an iPhone.!!! ??? ???
I’m hoping someone here has given it a try and can offer cogent advise to someone whose perskeptivity meter is beeping loudly and who thinks it is possibly too good to be true!

Dave

SalvageDiver Loc: Huntington Beach CA

Hi Dave, I've used Hydra on my iphone for a several years and continue to use it. If you have a moving object in your image such as a waterfall, the Hi-res function simulates a ND filter, which is my primary use of the app. I also occassionally use the HDR function but no so much the zoom and lo-light functions. There is a video-HDR function that I've never used.

Here is a link to a previous post regarding this app.

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-673955-1.html

It generally works as advertised.

Mike

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Well. Dave, if I sent you a selfie you’d see lotsa egg on my face. My short-term whatchamacallit took a vacation and I didn’t recall reading and responding to that earlier excellent post of yours .
My particular interest, however, is in making final high resolution raw captures of 18, 24, or 32 megapixels. Have you tried that and, if you have? How were the eresults?
Thanks again? Dave, and I am sorry to have misplaced my memory of your earlier post on Hydra!
Best regards,
Dave

SalvageDiver Loc: Huntington Beach CA

Well Mike, re-read the last post because your guilty of that all the time. Your wife reminds you of that all the time so that you'll remember. But Mike forgets what she tells him, so she repeats herself all the time. Fortunately Mike forgets faster than his wife reminds. But, Mike likes eggs in his face more than on his face. How do I know? He told me so. The stranger in the bathroom talks to him all the time through the glass window on the wall. LOL

I just went out and took two pictures down our neighborhood street, one using the native camera app, the other with Hydra in Hi-Res mode. The two file sizes are 4032x3024 and 6528x4896, respectively. I zoomed into the white SUV and its license plate. I loaded each image into PS and zoomed so that both images were equal size (check zoom factor in bottom right corner). Then you can compare the image quality of both images.

The negative is that since it takes about 3 seconds to take the series of images. If yous subject is moving , like a car driving down the street, you have problems. But if it's like a waterfall, then your in luck.

View the images in download.

Both images are SOOC, no processing done on either image.

Hope this answers your question.
Mike

image from camera app

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in-camera app zoomed from 44% to 500%

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Hydra zoomed from 27% to 308%

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Ufauxreal

After reading this post and the previous one, I downloaded Hydra. Does anyone know of tutorials on how to use the app? Links would be great.