HTC Ones New Camera Features

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On paper, this camera sounds like a breakthrough. This phone actually has three lenses; two of them are on the back, about an inch apart. Each time you take a picture, you’re actually taking two shots from slightly different angles.
HTC says that this dual lens makes possible a feature called UFocus, which sure sounds like the Lytro effect: You can actually refocus a photo after you’ve taken it. (The Lytro is a $500 pocket camera that simulates 100,000 lenses, so that, when viewing the results online, you can indeed change which part of the photo is in focus by clicking.)
In practice, there’s no Lytro effect. The phone can tell the difference between foreground and background, which is cool. But all UFocus actually does is let you process the foreground and background independently. You can add a fake-looking blur to the background, for example:

Or to the foreground:

You can also colorize or special-effectize the background:

You can also drag your finger around to change the perspective of the shot, as though you’d moved the camera a few inches to one side. This is, believe it or not, the same photo. (Inspect the red flower at top to see how the perspective has shifted — it’s a lot more jaw-dropping to see it shift live as you drag your finger.)

That feature does work identically to the Lytro camera’s Perspective Shift feature. You can sometimes reveal things that were behind the subject.
The HTC camera crew clearly burned many candles at many ends to come up with a Camera app that offers this many features and options. Some of my favorites:
• You can set up the volume buttons to be zooming buttons in camera mode. (Or shutter buttons, as on the iPhone.)
• There’s a Pause button when you’re recording video, so you can make a clip that consists of several different shots. How great (and obvious) is that?
• You can create a 360-degree panorama — a dome-shaped photo, in other words — that you can later navigate by dragging your finger on the screen. It’s the same idea as Microsoft’s Photosynth app for iPhone or Windows phones, although there’s more labor involved; on the HTC, you have to build the 360-degree photo one snap at a time, using onscreen centering squares as a guide. Still, the result is very cool.
• You have complete photographic control over white balance, ISO (light sensitivity), shutter speed, exposure, and manual focus.
Tragically, heaping all of this software goodness onto the HTC One’s mediocre camera hardware is like outfitting the Titanic with in-room movies. The camera itself is just not very good, at least not compared with its rivals from Apple and Samsung.

by the way, I did not take those pictures.....copied from Yahoo.....hope that's ok.