@halide Looking at the original files, I see that the Halide HEIF files have the full 0.5 format, so I guess the app saves the full 0.5, then applies a crop afterward?
Manually cropping from 0.5 seems to give the same detail as the Halide “Macro”, just looking blurry instead of over-sharpened. I guess it's an inevitable tradeoff for the app. Personally I think less sharpening would be better.
🧐 Apple should let you access their "macro” image pipeline so you can add focus tools on top of it!