1、 Evolution of my photographic equipment

Over the years, we have become more and more able to play and enjoy taking photos. From the earliest year, we only took photos in the photo studio a few times, but now we can go to the photo studio to take photos of all kinds of photos at any time. Shooting equipment is also becoming more and more advanced. Take myself as an example, I am a post-80s generation. From the point and shoot camera I first contacted when I was a child, to the later upgrade to Sony's card machine DSC-TX66, and to the upgrade from the card machine to the micro single Sony next5r in the last two years. Finally, after getting married this year, I bought a second-hand almost new Sony DSC-RX100 M3 black card 3 from friends, My husband upgraded the next5r to full frame micro single Sony ILCE-7M2K. The price of the camera also goes from the earliest 1000 yuan camera to more than 10000 yuan now

In life, in addition to the camera that can be carried in travel, if you want to take photos all the time, you can't help but have a mobile phone. With the constant upgrade of cameras at home in recent years, my mobile phone has also been upgraded. From the early Nokia old phones, which did not have the function of taking pictures at that time, to the current IP6, the front camera is 1.2 million, and the rear camera is 8 million.

Over the years, not only have the camera equipment been upgraded, but the way people take photos has also changed a lot. More than a decade ago, we all needed to find a passer-by to help us take photos. A few years ago, mobile phones gradually added a front camera, and the word "selfie" appeared in our lives. Until 2014, a magical tool appeared, which was the selfie stick. When it comes to my selfie equipment, there are mainly two: one is the selfie stick+iPhone 6, and the other is the black card 3. The LCD screen of the black card 3 can be rotated up 180 ° to take selfie. This is also the main reason why I bought this camera, haha~.

As for my self timer, there are two main devices: one is the self timer rod+iPhone 6, and the other is the black card 3. The LCD screen of the black card 3 can be rotated up 180 ° to take self timer. This is the main reason why I bought this camera, haha~

But although we already have two selfie equipment, let's take a look at the photo taking effect: because the selfie stick also has a length limit, if we want to take a picture farther, the selfie stick will be embarrassed to enter the camera; When you take a selfie with a camera, you can only see two big heads, and the distant scenery is blocked by the big head!

Recently, I found a new type of self timer tool - the Pedola self timer robot.  

2、 Unpacking The appearance of the product is a little simple, with only one plastic protective film on the outside.

There are four aspects below the box, including product parameters, brief introduction to functions, and product APP download methods.

Open the package, the top is the body of the selfie robot, and the bottom is a round storage box. Open the storage box. There are five kinds of accessories in it. From left to right, they are USB interface, two rubber clips, remote control and data.

3、 Appearance&Accessories

The Padora robot has a small appearance, with a diameter of 85mm, a height of 72mm and a weight of 285g.

The front of the product is the Patola logo, and the small dot below the logo is the indicator light. If the indicator light is blue for a long time, it means that the boot is successful. If the blue light flashes, it means that the Bluetooth connection has not been successful. If the red light is on, it means that the version needs to be updated.

The lower back of the product is a USB interface, which can be connected to a data cable for charging.

The side of the product marks several major functions of the product: photographing, photographing, supporting 360 ° photographing, supporting face recognition, and requiring Bluetooth link.

In addition to a USB socket (which is convenient to charge the mobile phone, and will be described in detail later), there is also a replaceable rubber clip seat above the Pedola robot. Considering the different thicknesses of mobile phones at present, the brand has specially designed two rubber clips with different thicknesses, which can support the thickness of mobile phones between 6.5mm and 9.5mm, the maximum screen can support 5.5 inches, and the maximum weight of mobile phones is 200g, which has basically met the needs of most mobile phones at present. But one disadvantage is that the clamp seat is made of rubber, so it is easy to get dust.

Look at the bottom. In addition to some information about the product, the QR code on the right can be scanned to access the download interface of the Pedola APP. With this self portrait robot, you must install the APP on your mobile phone to take photos through the Bluetooth link. The use process and effect will be described in detail later.

The circle in the middle of the bottom is a tripod screw hole, which can connect tripods of different heights to take more beautiful pictures from different angles.

The four square signs above the screw holes of the tripod are power indicator lights.

The oval button above the power indicator light is the key to turn on the power supply. This design is not convenient for me, so I should set the switch above it for easy operation.

This photo Dora robot is also equipped with a remote control, which can be used to rotate the remote camera up, down, left and right to adjust the photo angle, as well as adjust the focal length. At the same time, it can set the replacement of video recording and photo taking.

The circular sign on the upper left corner of the remote control is the key to open, and the right side is the key to open the infrared. It is specially noted that this model has the infrared function, which can automatically identify the face and take tracking photos.

The circular sign in the middle of the remote control can be adjusted from top to bottom, left to right, and from different angles. This self timer robot supports 360 ° free rotation, and supports 15 ° upward and 10 ° downward tilt. Compared with the limitations of the angle of the selfie stick and camera, this model gives people who like to take photos more choice of angles~

Next is the photographing/recording function. Long press to switch to the recording function.

The plus and minus signs at the bottom are zoom in and zoom out functions, which can adjust the focal length. This remote control also needs to be charged. There is a USB socket at the bottom, and the pendant hole is beside the socket. Friends who are afraid of losing can attach a key chain. The four dots on the side are power indicators.

The battery capacity of this robot is only 1090mAh, so it is inevitable that there are many times of charging during use. As mentioned earlier, this robot supports USB charging.

There are two charging modes. One is to plug the data cable into the computer for charging, and the other is to plug the data cable into the adapter for charging directly. Here, I want to remind you that this accessory is only equipped with a data cable and no adapter, which makes me very confused and makes me wonder whether the staff forgot to put the adapter!? But now every family has to have several mobile phones or tablets, and adapters are not hard to find.

In terms of charging time, some of them are long, and it takes nearly two hours to fully charge.

I have been wondering what the USB adapter is for. I can understand the intention of the manufacturer by opening the manual. This photo taking robot not only supports USB charging, but also can charge the mobile phone and the machine itself at the same time. If it is an Apple phone, it needs a USB adapter for conversion. If both the mobile phone and the robot are out of power at the same time, dual charging can be carried out, but the mobile phone can only be charged after the power is plugged in.

As an ordinary consumer, in fact, he hopes that the base of this model can be used as a mobile power supply, and can also support the charging of mobile phones when the machine is not charged.

The above is an introduction to the relevant parameters of this selfie robot.

Overall, it is small, light and portable. However, I hope the charging function can be improved and an adapter can be added to the accessories.

4、 How to use the Pedola robot

1. Download the Pedola APP from your mobile phone

2. Turn off the vertical direction lock of the phone

3. Turn on the Padora robot switch, remote control switch, remote control infrared switch

4. Turn on Bluetooth

5. Put the mobile phone in the clip seat of the self timer robot and clip it (here's a reminder that when placing the mobile phone, you need to turn the mobile phone to the Home key on the right)

6. Open the Pedola APP. To open the APP for the first time, you need to select the device model.

7. Enter the Bluetooth connection page and click Start pairing

8. After the pairing is successful, enter the photographing page and adjust the photographing settings first. In the setting, you can adjust the picture quality, recording quality, countdown time for face tracking, countdown time for using the remote control to take a picture, countdown sound switch and exposure compensation.

5、 Experience various photo taking functions of the photo Dora robot

1. Tripod connection

As mentioned earlier, this model has tripod screw holes at the bottom, which can be connected to any standard tripod with 1/4 inch screw holes at the bottom. After connecting the tripod, the shooting angle is more abundant~My family has a octopus, so I tried to connect it. However, it is recommended that the connection should not be too tight. If it is too tight, it will affect the rotation function of the Padora robot.

2. Photo taking interface

Enter the photo page, which is slightly different from the photo page of ordinary mobile phones.

From left to right on the top are: access to album, flash, front and rear lens transition, and return to select model.

From left to right at the bottom are: settings, video recording, multi angle photographing selection, face recognition function, and return to Bluetooth connection.

What is more distinctive is his face recognition selection and 180 ° or 360 ° photography.

3. Facial recognition function experience

The face recognition function is mainly matched with the infrared automatic tracking selfie, which can eliminate the need for remote control. Pedola can accurately identify the face of the photographer in the crowd, so as to conduct real-time follow-up. But after all, it is not manual photography, and face recognition is not 100% accurate. During the test, about six or seven of the ten times can be taken automatically.

In the face recognition function, single face recognition, double face recognition, and multiple face recognition can be performed. The sign at the bottom is to turn off face recognition, and manually control the remote control to take photos. Here's a special point. In the face recognition of two people, it will remind you to "please get closer". If you take a close photo, the photo page will also show a heart~(Here's a little evil picture: when two good friends take photos, if there is a heart on the photo page, will the photographer laugh?! Ha ha!) Considering that there may be many situations when two people take photos, So it is suggested to cancel the pink peach heart~

4. Rotate multi angle experience

Different from the selfie stick, this patola selfie robot supports 360 ° free rotation and 15 ° up and 10 ° down tilt. No matter which angle we want to take pictures from, it supports. With the facial recognition function or remote control settings, we can take a variety of pictures from different angles.

For details, see the video I recorded -: take Dora self timer robot - rotate multiple angles

5. Support 180 °&360 ° photographing

In addition to the rotation multi angle photography described above, this camera Dora robot also supports 180 ° and 360 ° panoramic photography, while ordinary cameras and mobile phones only support 180 ° panoramic photography.

For those who like traveling, it is recommended to take a tripod, take photos of Dora, and take panoramic photos to make more and more beautiful scenic films~

The following video is about the automatic photographing effect of Dora when taking a 180 ° panoramic picture

6. Video recording function

Click the video button on the APP or long press the camera button on the remote control to enter the video interface.

The following is a sample film taken at night. When turning the angle, sometimes it is not very smooth.

The following is the Dora self filming robot - night photography (sample film)

7. Exposure compensation

It was previously introduced that the setting of the Pedola APP has the exposure compensation function. The above two pictures are the brightness contrast before and after the exposure compensation is turned on in the evening. It can be seen that exposure compensation is very effective~

Summary of the characteristics of the photographing function of the robot for taking photos of Dora Selfie Liu:

1. The connection method is simple and the operation method is easy to understand; Support tripod connection for more angle shooting

2. Support multi person face recognition function, which can automatically capture people's smiling faces for taking photos.

4. It supports 360 ° rotation and 10 ° tilt from 15 ° up to 10 ° down, and supports 180 ° and 360 ° panoramic photography modes.

5. The body and the remote control have infrared tracking, and the remote control can be used for photo control.

6. With exposure compensation function, it can enhance the brightness and quality when taking pictures at night.

7. Sometimes the rotation is not very smooth and still needs to be lifted.

6、 Photo Dora APP makes exclusive magazine&online picture beautification

1. Enter magazine template

There are two ways to enter magazine production. The easiest way is to directly click the book logo in the lower left corner.

2. Download magazine template

In the magazine template, you can see the locally downloaded template and other online templates. There are about 20 groups of templates, and there are five or six picture templates for each group of magazine templates. (Personally, compared with the templates of other beauty tools, there are still a few).

3. Filter effect

After selecting the template, select the picture to make the magazine, and then start making the magazine~

At the same time, you can also choose the effect of different filters by long pressing to make pictures of magazines.

4. Portrait extraction

Click the selected picture, and you can also carry out portrait extraction, portrait beauty, composite pictures, text addition and other functions.

In portrait extraction, there are four functions: select, erase, smear, and circle. Click the picture to enlarge it for extraction.

5. Portrait beauty

In portrait beauty, one click beauty can be used to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, color, and whitening and skin beautification. Of course, different filter effects can be selected again.

The beauty function of portrait is very powerful, but it still lacks the face slimming function that many beauties like. Ha ha~

6. Composite photo

The function of compositing pictures is suitable for pictures with messy backgrounds but want to highlight people. It is suggested to use the portrait extraction first, then use the composite picture, and finally select the favorite magazine template to complete the picture.

However, in composite photos, only yellow sunflowers can be selected as the background of composite photos. It is recommended to add multiple background templates later.

7. Add text

Add text function, which can not only adjust the font of text, but also adjust the color of text~

8. Sharing function

In addition to the above, magazines can also be saved in this machine in the form of pictures; It can also be shared with other users through various channels. At the same time, you can also enter the "look at" channel to view other users' magazines, and you can like and leave messages for interaction.

Summary of online production magazine of Pedola APP:

1. You can choose a variety of magazine templates online to make your own magazine pictures, but the number of templates still needs to be increased.

2. It supports multiple functions such as portrait extraction, portrait beauty, photo synthesis, and text addition. However, the background in the composite photo is too single, and the beauty function lacks a thin face, ha ha!

3. It can be shared to other channels and interact with other users.

7、 Sample display Online magazine sample I Online magazine sample 2 The above figure is a 180 ° photo taken~ The above figure is a 360 ° photo taken~

The picture above shows how to use the remote control to control the shooting scene~

8、 Summary

advantage:

1. Small and light in appearance, strong portability.

2. It supports the function of multi person face recognition, which can automatically capture people's smiling faces for taking photos, and release your hands to enjoy self taking.

3. The body and the remote control have infrared tracking, and the remote control can be used for photo control.

4. It supports 360 ° all-round tracking, 15 ° up and 10 ° down tilt, 180 ° and 360 ° panoramic photography modes, and can experience ultra multi angle photography mode.

5. The APP can select a variety of magazine templates online to produce its own magazine pictures, and has multiple functions such as portrait extraction, portrait beauty, photo synthesis, and text addition.

6. APP can share the produced magazines to other channels and interact with other users.

Disadvantages:

1. There are a few accessories, there is a lack of adapters, and the packaging is too simple.

2. Product prices are on the high side.

3. There are few magazine templates in APP, and the background in composite photos is too single.

4. The battery life of the product is short, and when Bluetooth is connected to the mobile phone, the mobile phone also consumes power.

5. Sometimes the selfie robot does not rotate very smoothly when taking photos, and it still needs to be improved.