Same experience on 14 pro - it got noticeably hot after 2nd photo, and after 3rd the app crashed and OS was choppy for a few minutes. And that was indoors, in 22C and screen fairly dim. Never seen anything like it; as-is I’d avoid the app lest it actually damages something.
The photos themselves do look better than apple’s default cam, but not by a huge amount. Most noticeable is better range, like a photo of a blue sky with a few clouds seen through your window that takes up a third of the photo, which by default is either very dim inside or mostly indistinct blue-gray or blown out if focusing inside. Super-resolution however, especially at 6x (double 14 pro’s 3x optical zoom) is actual wizardry.On the other hand night photos seem like garbage - there’s a bit more stuff visible than on default 3sec night mode but the colors are nonsensical and details nonexistent, certainly nothing even remotely close to what adobe promises on their webpage.
All in all I’m not sure what use it is with the terrible performance, outside of long-range photos that you really want to shoot at 6x zoom and keep as much detail as possible.
pantulis|8 months ago
Melatonic|8 months ago
The built in iOS camera app can do something sort of similar - you can set it to shoot in adobe raw (12mpx scaled down from the 48mpx sensor). Often the phone will shoot HDR by combining multiple photos. And in night mode (either manually activated or auto) it will stack (combine) multiple exposures for long exposure noise reduction and (maybe) exposure stacking. Setting it to a longer amount (max is 7 seconds I think) should thereotically combine more photos.
The adobe raw format can store this info (it's actually quite underrated - I first switched to iOS with the 15 pro and immediately tried to find a way to shoot a true "normal" raw like a .DNG). I'm very into photography and used to be a professional film editor and one my favourite hobbies is astrophotography (with a real camera and tripod).
The cool thing about adobe raw specifically is that the HDR stack is not baked into the file. If you open one in Lightroom mobile, for example, there is a slider under the far right "profiles" editing section. The slider defaults to the middle (50) which is basically the default stacked HDR look from Apple. Moving the slider all the way left will have it use a single exposure (normal raw - no HDR no stack). Anywhere in between will be a blend of the two. If you don't see the slider then you haven't properly opened the adobe raw file in Lightroom mobile (you may have opened a jpeg preview or accidently shot in .heif)
It's quite counterintuitive because "profiles" when editing a non adobe raw is a totally different function (more like adding preset looks). If the file was not taken in HDR then the slide will do nothing. I'm not exactly sure what moving the slider to the right does (it seems to increase the amount of HDR or something - I never use it).
I've noticed that when editing adobe raw on iOS messing with this slider seems to be by far the most CPU intensive aspect. Sometimes the image preview updates immediately and sometimes it takes awhile and the phone heats up. Sometimes the app just crashes. It might be using a similar algorithm to what the Adobe Indigo app is using here for image capture.
Editing raw files also kills my battery life faster than anything else I've done (which makes sense) considering that it's a fairly intensive process. This was also true on previous Android phones so it's not limited to iOS. I usually stop any music playing at the same time and make sure the phone is out of direct sun and it seems to handle heat buildup well when doing this. If it does heat up I remove the case and put it in front of my car AC vent or some other ventilated area and it cools relatively quick.