Google updates its Camera app with new focus animation
One more week the company Google offers news to its users through updates of your applications and services, always coinciding with the early hours of Wednesday to Thursday, due to the time difference with United States This time it was the turn of the application Camera A tool that comes standard on devices with the operating systemAndroid pure, and that offers all kinds of tools when it comes to taking a picture also to other users of the platform.A basic application that is now more powerful and useful.
This is version 2.5 of Google Camera, a new version with a short list of new features that doesn't attract much attention. And it is that there are no new functions or characteristics that radically break with the above, although there are some notable changes. Among them surprises the new focus animation And, now a circle is shown that adjusts at the same time as the focus , centering on the object or point being defined. A minor change that renews the look and experience when it comes to framing and focusing. And, in previous versions, only a circle circling appeared while the lens was able to focus and show a well-defined point on the screen. A visual change that does not imply differences in the result of the photograph.
Perhaps it is more practical that, together with this new animation, the HDR system in the application has been improved. A photography mode capable of displaying a higher contrast, differentiating shadow and highlight areas to create more realistic and striking scenes, especially with cloudscapes. A mode that typically involved a few seconds of processing that the application needed to perform all the relevant editing tasks. Something that is now much more agile and fast, offering the possibility of taking more pictures in an instant or simply not having to wait so long to continue using the terminal.
Apart from this, it also has a small novelty in the form of a bubble It is a small thumbnail of the image that has just been taken, which is collected in the lower right corner, and can be accessed by pressing said bubble A shortcut to check the capture result instantly.
Lastly, there is a somewhat strange change within the settings menu. And, in previous versions, it was possible to adjust the quality of the blur effect A feature that allows you to focus attention on specific points of the image while blurring the rest. Issue that could count on several quality states that differed little or nothing from each other. Perhaps for that reason Google has decided to remove this option to alter the quality of the blur effect, setting it to a Normal state that cannot be changed in this version 2.5
In short, an update that only the most purists will know how to appreciate, since it does not have real practical innovations, highlighting above all the speed of the HDR mode and the new animation when focusing.This version 2.5 of Google Camera has already been released via Google Play fully gratis However, it will gradually reach the different markets, and it may take several days to appear in Spain
