Htc one m8 ufocus 1080p#

Pay attention to the top of his left shoulder (on the right side of the image). You’ll notice the effect isn’t perfect though.

It’s an awesome effect, something that would take considerable time in post normally (not to mention time on a PC). I've embedded both images below, click on the buttons to toggle between the two images: Then I fired up UFocus, tapped on his face, and in about a second I had a processed result. I was sitting across a table from Scott Wasson at a coffee shop and decided to snap a photo of him. In portraiture you end up with simulated bokeh, giving you heavily blurred backgrounds while keeping your subject in sharp focus. Instead, you’re basically toggling between focus captured by the primary or secondary sensor with the rest of the scene computationally put in/out of focus from what I can tell. This isn’t completely open ended where you can selectively focus on anything in a scene. UFocus allows you to change the part of the scene in focus, either using the focus plane of the primary or secondary sensor. Simply take a picture using the rear facing camera, tap edit, then effects and you’re presented with a list of all of the Duo Cam effects available on the One. HTC uses this depth information to enable a number of post processing effects that can be done on the One itself.

Htc one m8 ufocus 1080p#

Around 40% of the added file size is due to the secondary 1080p image, while the remaining 60% of the data is depth information. Images captured with Duo Cam enabled end up being around 60% larger than those shot with the rear sensor alone. This added data is stored outside of the normal address space for a JPEG file, and allegedly in a non-readable format (although my guess is with enough time you’d be able to extract the secondary image). The second sensor captures what appears to be a wider field of view, as well as stores some depth information about the scene. The secondary sensor is actually the front facing camera module from the M7 (OmniVision OV2722, 1080p sensor with 1.4µm pixels).Īssuming you’re shooting in the right conditions, both sensors capture an image although only the image from the primary sensor is displayed. The primary shooter is still the 4MP UltraPixel camera from last year, without optical image stabilization (more on this later). Unfortunately, the M8’s Duo Cam system doesn’t go that far either. I remember seeing Intel demos years ago (think Moorestown timeframe) that showed a smartphone with two rear cameras, each with a different lens system, in order to computationally improve image quality. Thankfully the M8 One doesn’t fall victim to the 3D fad of the early 2010s. The last HTC phone I used with two rear facing cameras was the EVO 3D.