Stabitha_Christie

9secondkox2 said:

Didn't know the newer iPhones needed much help here, but any improvement is always welcomed. Curious to see how much more realistic this is or if it's actually AI doing the combining pf photo bursts. 

Thought Apple was already doing image combinations. Maybe this is more advanced than that? more frames to compute = better quality? Hopefully. 

Les smoothing is great though. So will definitely be an improvement there. 

This camera, the built in camera and just about every smartphone camera are all doing computational photograph. They all use multiple photos stitched together to make an image and then apply adjustments to create the final look. So, the big difference here is the difference in those adjustments. Most smartphone camera apps go for sharpened images that are really saturated and have low contrast. What Adobe is going for is more like what you would get from a film camera. It goes for higher contrast, more natural colors and doesn't apply a ton of sharpening to the final image. It does underexpose to avoid blowing out highlights. In film photography it is easier to recover detail from over exposed highlights and harder to pull detail from the shadows. The inverse is true for digital. It is harder to recover blowout highlights and easier to pull detail from shadows. Ultimately, it comes down to the question of "Which camera produces images you like?" If you like saturated imagines with sharper lines then this isn't the best camera. If you like more natural colors and softer lines then is would probably better fit your tastes. Worth nothing that most smartphone cameras go for really sharp images that are highly saturated because that is what most people like. Of course that is if you are shooting jpg. If you are shooting RAW there are fewer differences. In the current DNG standard the raw file is created from the multiple shots and then adjustments are applied but not to the imagine layer. That means you can undo the sharpening and saturation. The underexposing would still be relevant but not a big deal, lowering the exposure value on the iPhone is a pretty trivial step. 

There are a few other things this camera offers, you can set ISO and shutter speed. It is unique to this camera but those things aren't in the built-in camera. It also claims to have a better digital zoom. 

TL;DR - The big thing this camera offers is a different look, awesome if you like this particular look. The hype around it comes from the fact that it is made by Adobe, other than caring that name it doesn't really offer any features that don't exist in other camera. 

9secondkox2 said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

9secondkox2 said:

Great first step. 

Look forward to seeing what’s to come. 

The fact that the usa gets 30% out of this whole China only gets 10% is quite the “art of the deal.”

you could kind of read the Chinese ministers faces exiting the negotiations thst it was something like this. 

People forget how powerful the United States really is. 

will be interesting if progress is made on rare earth. 

Hopefully this means apple can breathe easier while continuing to diversify the supply chain and get serious about efforts at home. 

The only way you can think this is a "deal" is if you didn't actually knew what the tariff rates were prior to the trade war.  And since Cult member aren't exactly known for being informed, we can safely assume you have no clue where we were at trade wise prior to the trade war. I'll catch you up, Trump completely capitulated to China and U.S. companies and customers are stuck paying the bill. Our tariffs on China are higher and Chinese tariffs the didn't exist  four months ago are still there. We literally got nothing but higher prices, and y'all think we won something. This is almost as embarrassing as when you made up a story about getting a pay raise to make a point about income tax only to announce the the world that you don't understand the U.S. tax code or how a progressive tax works. 

Um…

let’s take last year. 

We charged Chinese exports 20%. Some tarriffs were 34%. 

China charged us 30%. Some items had a 67% tarriff. 

Now, we gain 10% and they lose 20% from the lowest set point. 

The USA loses only 4% from the highest and China loses 57%. That’s a fantastic deal for America. No matter if you are rooting for the usa or for China. 

It’s not just looking at the recent crazy hikes. 

It’s a great deal for the usa. 

And it sets the tone for a more even snd fair deal to come. 

The president talked with Tim Cook this morning. 

None of the targeted tariffs that China put in place prior to the trade war or since have been touched. They all remain as high as they ever were. So when you say things like "Some items had a 67% tariff." Those tariffs are still 67%. All the products China banned from being imported in the last few months are still banned from import. All the products China banned from being exported are still banned from being exported. So, China gave up very little. They dropped their base tariff rate to 10% and kept all the other higher tariffs and restrictions, many of which were not in place before this nonsense started. Dear Leader raised tariffs to 145%, panicked when his approval rating tanked and looked for the nearest exit and lowered tariffs by 115 points to slightly above where we were when this started. By far Dear Leader conceded almost 100% of what he had done and the Chinese didn't. Why? Because the Chinese played chess while Dear Leader was trying to figure out what day of the week Sunday falls on. Targeted tariffs and restrictions were the smart play and Dear Leader got outplayed. 

Thatguy2 said:

USA wins yet another trade deal, and this one where everyone said china would never cave. Now 90 days to make it permanent and help our farmers with more china purchases like last time. Impressive 

Not even the administration is saying there is a deal. They are saying they have 90 days to work on one. What you are calling a “win” is The U.S. and China temporarily lowering tariffs but neither lowered them to pre-trade war levels. So close consumers in both countries are still paying more than they otherwise would have. Progress on the administrations stated goals, reducing the trade deficit and repatriating manufacturing? None. 

9secondkox2 said:

Wesley_Hilliard said:

9secondkox2 said:

Wesley_Hilliard said:

The economy is crashing. Ports are empty. Truck drivers have nothing to transport. Shelves will soon be empty of key goods. The dollar is dropping. Jobs are being lost. People aren't buying anything. There's no flow into the treasury. Our national debt is going up as a result of these tariffs as Americans do without. The global trade continues with the US removed unabated. We're the only ones harmed by this action. No one is negotiating anything.

So yeah, great plan all around so far.

Meanwhile China is removing some tarriffs snd msking exemptions. 

Like I said before, it’s too early. Less knee jerk reactions and more balanced analysis before we see the ultimate results. 

Nobody like a fight. But sometimes they’re necessary. And when you fight, you don’t do so just to fight. It’s to win. So far, we are seeing other countries wilting. 

We'll see what happens.

That’s all I’m saying. Just wait and see. As much as one side wants to believe trump is an evil bogeyman who can only do wrong, and the other side sees only positive qualities, reality will be what it will be. 

Your comment was perfectly timed as we had to wait less than 24 hours. GDP numbers were announced today for the first quarter of the year and as such they are first indication of the impact of the tariffs. GDP dropped for the first time in years and our trade deficit grew. Literally the opposite of what Trump and the pro-tariff crowd promised. Trump is, per usual, blaming the former president and claiming the numbers were worse under Biden. So pretty much what the anti-tariff crowd has been saying. They won't work, they will crash the economy and Trump will simply lie about it like he does everything else. 

The “wait and see” approach is goofy. Some things are in fact knowable. You don’t push a car over a cliff so you can “wait and see” if it will hit the bottom. It’s going to hit the bottom. Similarly, you jump to a trade war to address (insert reason of the week for tariffs). And if anyone needs any further proof that the man leading this charge doesn’t have any clue what he is doing then look no further than his claim that he had made trade deals with 200 countries. There aren’t two hundred countries in the world. The sitting president of the United States doesn’t even know how many countries there are or how many countries there are, how many he has made “deals” with or how many he has placed tariffs on. Let that sink in.