Overall, the app offers a much cleaner and more user-friendly interface, reports TechCrunch, and includes the notable Photo Sphere and Panorama features. What Else the New Google Camera App Offers While Lens Blur works well for still subjects, it’s not possible for users to get the same effect on a moving object, as it is with HTC’s uFocus. “Lens Blur replaces the need for a large optical system with computer vision algorithms and optimization techniques that are run entirely on the mobile device, simulating a larger lens and aperture in order to create a 3-D model of the world,” Google’s Research team said on the Google + blog. The parts of the image around the focal point are then blurred to give the appearance of depth of field, the DSLR effect that these focus features are attempting to mimic. Lens Blur allows the user to select focal points in an image. As TechCrunch noted, Google has a winning strategy on their hands by “democratizing” these special features and making them available to all. Lens Blur is getting the most attention because it is a popular feature of two new flagship phones, the HTC One M8 and Samsung’s Galaxy S5.
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The new Google Camera app, available to all Android users running KitKat 4.4 or higher, brings a number of noteworthy features to the Android picture-taking experience. The app’s most notable feature is the ability to blur parts of an image’s background, similar to the popular uFocus feature of the new HTC One M8. GottaBeMobile reports that rumors of a stand-alone camera app from Google have been circulating for a while, but the sudden appearance of the app live on the Play Store was unexpected. The gallery below showcases each version of the photosphere mount.Google has surprised Android users by adding a new Google Camera app to the Google Play Store. Some foam was cut to protect the phone in the mount and the machine screw keeps the foam in place. A steel 1/4″ – 20 beam clamp coupled with a 1/4″ – 20 x 1-1/4″ machine screw, 3 1/4″ hex nuts, 2 5/16″ fender washers and a wing nut completes the mount on a one side. The Mark IV aimed to replace the machined parts with off-the-shelf parts available at Home Depot. A fender washer, hex nut and a pair of wing nuts secures the mount. The aluminum secures to the mount with a threaded rod insert that is cemented into the machined aluminum. The machined aluminum was created by the SoMAS facility manager Mark Wiggins, and the pieces are expertly created. The thicker OtterBox-like cases needed to be removed for the S7 in order to secure the phone in the mount. It was tested with the Samsung Galaxy S5 and S7. The Mark III replaced the threaded rod and smartphone case with two machined aluminum grips that could be quickly adjusted and tightened on the smartphone. The smartphone case and threaded rod still exist, but the metal frame was used in the Mark IV design. The Mark II wasn’t perfectly aligned with the camera lens, but it still created a good photosphere. A 1/4″ threaded rod secured with 4 1/4″ hex nuts and 4 5/16″ Fender Washers provided the swivel mount, coupled with a Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone case secured to the threaded rod with a computer expansion port cover. The Mark II introduced a metal frame, built from Home Depot Slotted Bar Flat Steel, 48″ x 1 3/8″ x 1/8″, SKU 887480020670.
The Mark I photosphere mount still exists and the rubber bands remain intact. It was a perfect first test that allowed for a few shots to be captured to great results. And it took great shots! The wood was taken from a Melissa and Doug bead set box, with the base removed and the rubber bands were in a drawer, so the cost for parts was $0.00. The rubberbands held the phone in place and the wood frame was easy to modify without needing any metalworking skills. The first photosphere mount I created was built out of rubberbands and wood. A tripod keeps the camera in place, but in order to capture the upward- and downward-facing images, the smartphone needs to swivel–and the lens needs to remain in roughly the same position. To truly create a proper photosphere that has minimal stitching errors, your phone needs to be placed in a controlled mount where the camera lens stays in roughly the same position for each individual shot. Unfortunately, creating a freehand photosphere can produce stitching issues between the individual images–jarring lines that show the viewer that the image you created is not a seamless environment but a set of photos pieced together. As detailed in my previous post, I am using the Google Camera App on my Samsung Galaxy S5 to create Photosphere images of the places at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and other parts of the Stony Brook University campus.Ī photosphere can be created by simply moving your phone around to the dots indicated on the screen of your smartphone.
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