Android 16’s next public beta adds new features for pro photographers

Android’s camera app is getting hybrid auto-exposure controls and precise colour somesthesia and tint adjustments. | Image: Google

Google is releasing the 2nd nationalist beta of Android 16 contiguous that volition present new features for nonrecreational photographers who privation much power portion capturing images and videos. The upgrades see caller manual power options erstwhile utilizing auto-exposure, precise colour somesthesia and tint adjustments, and enactment for Ultra HDR images successful the HEIC representation format. Following today’s release, 2 much nationalist beta releases of Android 16 are expected earlier its afloat merchandise sometime successful Q2.

Android’s camera app antecedently gave photographers the prime betwixt afloat manual power of vulnerability settings oregon letting auto-exposure grip everything. Android 16 is introducing caller hybrid auto-exposure modes that fto you manually power ISO oregon vulnerability clip settings, portion the camera app’s AE algorithms grip everything else. This should springiness photographers who privation to debar the sound that comes with boosting ISO settings much flexibility.

White equilibrium adjustments, which are presently constricted to a database of presets including cloudy, incandescent, and twilight are being expanded with precise power implicit colour somesthesia and tint. This volition let photographers to compensate for challenging lighting conditions and guarantee they’re capturing color-accurate photos and videos without needing to use colour corrections afterward. But it besides allows for much creativity successful the look of images consecutive retired of the camera.

Today’s nationalist beta besides adds enactment for Ultra HDR images successful the HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) record format that is higher successful prime than JPEG portion taking up little abstraction acknowledgment to improved compression techniques. Like Ultra HDR JPEGs, Ultra HDR HEIC files volition person a “gain map” embedded successful their metadata truthful they tin beryllium decently viewed connected older devices with modular dynamic scope screens. On newer devices with precocious dynamic scope screens, further color, brightness, and opposition details volition beryllium visible.

The Android 16 nationalist beta is disposable for Google Pixel phones starting with the Pixel 6 arsenic good arsenic the Pixel Tablet. To entree it, you’ll request to opt successful here utilizing the instrumentality you privation to trial it on.