Hydra › Amazing Photography
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photo & Video | $4.99 | Creaceed SRL | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Hydra captures more light by merging up to 60 frames to make a single high-quality picture (less noise, more highlights/shadows) on iPhone and iPad. Hydra also goes beyond the 8- or 12-megapixel sensor limit, with up to 32-megapixel high-resolution images. It uses the latest evolutions of iPhone and iPad camera hardware, as well as the latest camera APIs and GPU rendering technologies.
Hydra provides 5 specific capture modes: HDR, Video-HDR, Lo-Light, Zoom, and Hi-res modes.
• Hydra's High Dynamic Range (HDR) mode is based on an alternate method that captures up to 20 images and that is made to handle even the most difficult lighting conditions.
• Video-HDR uses single-image tone mapping and device-specific sensor mode (iPhone 6) to create stunning videos.
• Lo-Light mode removes sensor noise by merging together multiple images and amplifying light by a factor of 10 to provide a better image quality.
• Zoom mode uses real-time, super-resolution technique to recreate missing pixels from hand motion, producing 2x, 4x and 8x scale factors with more details than the standard digital zooming technique(*).
• Hi-res mode produces up to 32MP images from the regular 8 or 12MP camera sensor, providing finer details in captured image(*).
• As of version 1.5, Hydra supports the telephoto and front cameras respectively in Zoom and Lo-Light/HDR modes.
Hydra also features a photo gallery for reviewing images and their metadata, directly linked with built-in iOS photo album, thus avoiding duplicates and allowing to flag as favorites.
(*) recommended for static & distant scenery. Rendering artifacts can occur for scenes with parallax and for moving subjects.
Reviews
Dual Camera support?
Buurtt
This app is amazing. I use the Low Light feature whenever it’s even slightly dim in my photos, and the reduced noise is unreal. However, we’ve had dual camera phones for over two years now, and no updates that take advantage of them? I’d love to see Hydra work its magic while using portrait mode!
Very nice camera app
Ericman77
I love this app works perfectly but just wish it had raw for photo stacking.
Add light option!
searleb
Lots of promise but not really usable in genuinely high dynamic range situations. Here the app would strongly benefit from a light setting or finer grain merging tools.
Does not live up to claim
Agarikon
This app simply does not even vaguely live up to what’s being claimed. Would like money back. After testing it out I found the high res mode is a joke, a cheap parlor trick that does not seem to improve the resolution at all. You can zoom past 100% crop is all. Take a photo using the normal iPhone app, zoom 100%, now take a screenshot of that zoomed photo, go to screenshot and zoom in more...that’s what the hi res mode from this app looks like to me.
Fantastic, exceeds expectations!
AcidicRain12
Don’t get any ideas but I would easily pay 3 times what I paid for this!
Want money back
TheFiendlyGhost
Waste of $5 Seen tons of great reviews, as a photographer, this is a terrible app.
Great Concept
pop-ups
I'm really happy to see this type of app emerge. I would love to see the dynamic range increased for the 32mp photos, perhaps by doing a slight exposure bracket while capturing. Also the option to save as tiff and 32bit hdr files for processing on the computer would be awesome. I love it, keep up the great work!
Video Sound
Husamulddin
I really hope you guys remove the sound that is made by the app when we start recording a video in the next update. It’s pretty annoying. I purchased this app for the HDR recording, so please consider my request.
Great!
Sleeper8816
This app takes amazing pictures and I originally bought it a few weeks ago with the intention of using the front face camera, but to my dismay it wasn’t available in the app. So I wrote this and they responded and asked me to hang tight, and guess what?! Now it’s available! I can’t wait for this to be my go to selfie app. Thank you for listening!
