Today, Google released a camera application designed and produced by itself - Google Camera. In addition to the previous Google camera functions such as Photo Sphere, this camera application also adds a lens blur mode to simulate the effect of lens depth of field. How effective is this application? Let's explore it together.

The interface design of Google Camera is relatively simple, but let me first tell you that there is a button with a shutter pattern at the bottom of the camera interface. In fact, it is not just clicking the shutter icon to shoot, but whenever you touch a whole black area below, you will shoot... that is, the whole black area below is the shutter button.

The interaction design is very comfortable. Slide your finger to the right to call out the shooting modes of various cameras.

Click the gear button at the bottom right corner of the above figure to call up the adjustment options of Google Camera, including the sample resolution and image quality, where we have adjusted the maximum resolution and the highest quality.

Here are the relevant options that can be adjusted. We choose to experience this Google Camera application on LG G2 (believe it or not, the experience of Google Camera on Nexus 5 is worse than that on LG G2).

In the camera mode photographing interface, clicking the menu button at the lower right corner can also call up some functions, including the bisecting auxiliary line, manual exposure (which needs to be enabled in the advanced options), HDR, flash, and lens switching functions. However, it is worth noting that some mobile phones do not have the HDR enabling function. For example, the Nexus 5 and Galaxy S4 on the small knitting hand do not have the HDR enabling option

In addition, after the Galaxy S4 is installed with Google Camera, the native camera will also prompt a failure.

Well, let's first experience the newly added lens blur function. There will be a guide when this function is first started.

Moreover, the lens blur effect is designed to simulate the depth of field. The effect used in macro is not good. If you shoot your own portrait or a larger object, the effect will be better.

At the beginning, I have to get used to the use of lens blur. I have to think about this myself, and soon I will.

After shooting, click the lens blur function to adjust the falsification of the proof.

Drag the slider below to adjust the level of virtualization.

The above is just a screenshot demonstration. What is really practical about this function is that it is more useful when shooting a bust or a large object. In order to make the contrast effect of the sample more obvious, this is a sample shot by the LG G2 native camera, without any processing, and it is reserved for comparison with the sample shot by the lens blur mode below.

Then Xiao Bian takes this photo with Google Camera at the same location, and uses the lens blur function to adjust the simulated depth of field effect. The comparison of the simulated depth of field effect in the left and right images should be obvious.

In addition, if you click on the sample, you can adjust the focus clearly again, which gives the illusion of taking photos before focusing. However, this is really not the back focus function. The position of the original image is blurred, and it will also be blurred.

Moreover, Xiao Bian also found a bug. After adjusting the depth of field of the sample, when looking at the details of the sample in a larger scale, the virtual situation of the sample changed (compared with the screenshot before zooming in on the left)... This application is very unstable.

Moreover, the samples taken with the lens blur mode will be compressed very, very small, and the 13 million pixel photos will be compressed to a resolution of 768 * 1024, so the details of the samples have been compressed very much, and it is impossible to zoom in to view the details.

Let's compare the original image. The illusion effect of the simulation is proper, and the color saturation of the sample is also increased, making the color of the sample more beautiful. Unfortunately, the resolution of the sample shot is too small, and the details of the picture are compressed so that it can't be seen at all. It's better not to zoom in to see the small picture.

After taking a picture, clicking the pen icon below can also make some simple edits to the sample, but this function is also unavailable on the Galaxy S4

Then let's experience its panorama shooting function. In the process of rotating shooting, there will also be a blue dot to help you compose smoothly. Here, I have to say first that the shooting interface of Google Camera can rotate randomly, but the automatic rotation function must be turned on to take effect. But I am used to turning off automatic rotation, so the camera interface does not rotate with the phone when shooting.

After photographing the panorama, there is still a period of processing time. The small editor has chosen a high-quality panorama, so the processing time will be longer. When we see the mobile camera in the picture preview before processing, we have taken several samples with different exposures due to different ambient light. Before splicing, there are pieces of samples with different exposures.

Fortunately, the splicing effect of the overall sample is good after processing, and there will be no obvious splicing traces. Xiaobian uploaded the original image. You can click the image to see the large image.

Photo Sphere is also reserved in the camera, which is the function of taking a 360 degree panorama to compose a picture. It can also realize panoramic observation function.

This is the screenshot in shooting, and there will also be small blue dots to help you fix the composition.

After taking a 360 degree panorama, it will generate a static sample. But really, the result is very poor. There are several parts of the sample that are fuzzy, and other parts are not clear.

Click the Panorama button to view the 360 degree panorama just like Google Street View, but as mentioned above, some details are really very, very poor, and very unstable.

After the above experience, I believe you also know clearly that Google Camera is really a very poor product. It looks cool and beautiful, but actually the samples taken are really poor. Photography optimization has always been Google's weakness. Google Camera, an application, also maintains Google's tradition of destroying cameras for thousands of years, and gives full play to this tradition.

In fact, the lens blur function in Google Camera can roughly achieve this effect in many applications. For example, Camera X60, X Image Show, Snapped and other software can produce a virtual effect. In addition, they can process and save post images with enough resolution based on the size of the original image, and the details will be much better than the samples taken with Google Camera.

If you still want to be abused, you can experience it, but don't expect too much.

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