Comparing macro shots from default Camera and Halide, I found there was a lot of noise and ugly sharpening in the Halide ones, and after doing some controlled tests with a tripod and remote shutter, it seems to confirm my hunch.
The Halide versions of these are worse, right? Less detail and oversharpened, with chunky noise in the background despite a lower ISO.
Any chance Halide could “use default macro" and just add the manual focus/exposure options?
@halide Ok so my request would be to review the tradeoffs in “enhancement quality”, honestly. I'm having a hard time finding any scenarios where that sharpening is an improvement, and the way it adds huge chunky noise in the bokeh is disturbing to look at. Better to just have a smaller picture.
Maybe it could be a setting, like the one for disabling default processing, but for the Halide Macro processing?
@halide Ok I see what you’re saying, I can get the pixels I’m looking for by just skipping macro mode entirely.
But then I miss out on the ergonomics. When focusing on something small, the macro mode is way better for focusing. And seeing the final framing is also better.
The sharpening in macro mode feels completely against the ethos of Halide 🤷🏻♀️
@halide Is there some way Halide could add metadata to images that would show in the macOS Photos app? Or to see which images are from Halide with what's there now?
I can see "Saved from Halide” when browsing on iOS, but it's invisible on my MacBook. Maybe it's just an omission from Apple, and they'll update it at some point. macOS Photos all around sucks compared to on iOS.
Would be really useful in figuring when Halide improves my captures without opening my phone to check.
Just to be clear: Mickey Mouse being in the public domain doesn't matter and never did, other than Disney being the antagonist promoting copyright term extensions over the course of the 20th century.
What matters is the literally endless list of other works that were kept out of the commons because of Mickey.
Mickey was a reverse-canary in the coal mine. Now that his copyright is finally dead, the rest of culture can finally breathe free.