- Real Name
- Michael
- Device
- iPhone X
If you want to know more about what HiLo Lens is I recommend to take a look at http://shop.hilolens.com/.
I want to post my experiences with HiLo Lens and apps that support it. For the apps, Dear Developers, Please consider to make support for this great tool.
For my tests I used the HiLo Lens app from the lens developer itself
and Pure from Mike Hardaker. Pure, and 645Pro, has support for the lens in the settings menu.
HiLo Lens app: First thing I noticed was the iPhone went hot and battery drained fast. It was because of the option called "Straighten photo". The lens is a wide angle lens of some sort and has barrel distortion, which is very common for this sort of lens and nothing to worry about. The straighten photo option is to correct this distortion and when switched on, the app does so permanently, which seems to need quite some power. So I switched it off to correct the distortion later on. Then I realised the app has no feature to do the correction after an image was shot. You can use Skrwt instead.
The HiLo Lens app has it's quirks. When you start the app you have to set the orientation of the camera. That's ok, but if you tap the home button and the app goes to background and you then double tap home button and bring the app back, then you have to set the orientation again. When you open camera roll from within the app, you can easily rotate an image. After you rotated an image you tap on a tick mark to save the rotation. And then you are here:
Now you are stuck of some sort. You can't continue to use the camera roll, no buttons will respond, only thing that works here is the Cancel button on top right. And another thing that I can't get the hang of is the camera roll and what images it shows. It don't show all images on the device, just the images I shot lately with the app. I beamed some HiLo Lens app images from another device via AirDrop to the actual device, but these images won't show up in the apps camera roll.
Pure app: This app has some quirks too in relation to HiLo Lens support. Or maybe I am not ready for this. Pure has problems with the orientation of the images. I expected What-you-see (in the viewfinder) is-what-you-get (in camera roll). For me it was not always the case. Some images are ok, others were rotated wrong or others just mirrored. I switched off the HiLo Lens support and dismouted the lens to do some normal shots. But these shots were also mirrored. I had to kick Pure out of memory and start it again.
So HiLo Lens support is not at it's best at the moment. But there is nothing game breaking. I had and will have a lot of fun with the lens and the apps supporting it.
The lens for itself is great stuff. I like the wider angle of view. I like the way you can hold the device to do shots. The lens looses some sharpness outside of the centre, but this is what you always have to expect from a wide angle lens. And you may loose a very little clarity or detail.
And now some images
Two images from the same spot, with HiLo Lens and without.