Zerocam 2.0 for Android provides colour profiles, lens assist

The “telephone look” for smartphone images is a widely known factor and, whereas it’s not at all times unhealthy, it’s not at all times what you need. Zerocam launched on Android in 2024 as a option to get rid of AI overprocessing, and it’s now getting a serious 2.0 replace that features new photographic colour profiles.

Zerocam launched first on iOS after which expanded to Android in 2024. The secret right here is limiting the processing performed by software program after the digicam {hardware} snaps a photograph, and the outcomes are sometimes fairly nice. Our Damien Wilde calls it his “favorite digicam app,” and mentioned again in the course of the 2024 launch that “it simplifies the method of taking a photograph and makes you assume extra about what and once you press the shutter button. It additionally helps that there aren’t any distractions to talk of.”

You possibly can see extra about his ideas on Zerocam in a recent 9to5Google video going over the fashionable Google Pixel digicam expertise. The video under is time-coded to the Zerocam dialogue:

Anyway, the information this week is that Zerocam 2.0 has landed on Android, and it’s a fairly big replace.

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Because the developer put it, Zerocam 2.0 for Android is “all about pure digicam energy and the absence of complexity.”

One of many core options right here is “Zero Appears to be like,” which is a group of colour profiles in your digicam that apply in real-time. New colour profiles arrive each month and promise to be “refined,” not like the digicam filters many are used to on telephones.

Zerocam 2.0 additionally fixes one ofthe greatest issues of the unique launch, with assist for extra lenses such because the ultrawide and telephoto lenses. That is device-dependent, although.

Right here’s every part new in Zerocam 2.0:

• Native Lens Help (Beta). Simply change between Large, Extremely-Large, and Telephoto. (Availability will depend on the producer’s digicam API assist. Please tell us if it doesn’t work in your system.
• Zero Appears to be like (Pure Filters). Refined, film-inspired colour profiles that apply in real-time. These aren’t heavy “filters”. They’re skilled colour grades, developed rigorously each month.
• Multi-Publicity Mode. Create creative photographs by merging two frames into one, immediately.
• Foldable Optimized (Beta). A redesigned interface that feels native whether or not your telephone is open, closed, or half-flexed.
• Professional-Grade RAW & JPG. A rebuilt picture pipeline delivers cleaner tones and extra dependable RAW recordsdata, supplying you with higher flexibility in post-production.

Zerocam is on the market for obtain via the Play Store, nevertheless it does require a subscription for principally every part – which is the first grievance amongst the app’s critiques. The subscription prices $0.99/month or $7.49/12 months.

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