The official presentation of the Galaxy S22 on Wednesday generated a lot of excitement in the world of mobile technology, and the expectation does not seem to diminish at all for the time being. One of the most anticipated reveals from Samsung has been the new camera hardware and features, including the new “Nightography” night photography features.
Along with new camera technology, Samsung has also announced its partnership with three major social media apps, making its camera’s unique features directly accessible from the user interface. The three lucky apps are called TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat, Samsung said (via android titles).-
Until now, using Samsung’s flagship camera features could only be accessed from the Samsung Inner Camera app. If users wanted to post a Portrait mode photo to social media sooner, they would have to take it with the Camera app first and then upload it to their profile.
The only camera features that were accessible from Instagram and other platforms previously were regular old cameras, plus a pointless video recording option.
When you think about it, it’s a bit surprising that it took Samsung this long to come up with such an affordable integration. People upload billions of photos to social media every day, so it makes sense to integrate the best benefits of your device’s camera into some of the most popular apps.
With Samsung’s new partnership with TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat, users can now take Portrait mode photos directly from the apps, as well as take advantage of enhanced HDR, autofocus, and digital image stabilization when streaming or posting videos to these apps. Applications. .
For the record, Portrait mode uses artificial intelligence algorithms to recognize the person or people who are the highlights of the photo and intelligently blurs the background behind them.
The other features are the more subtle improvements Samsung has made to the new S22 models, capable of enhancing your video even while you’re creating it.
As Samsung announced, the AI algorithms have been “improved across the board, resulting in better HDR video images, balancing out those bright skies and shadowy areas for a smoother looking shot overall. The AI promises. Also better autofocus and less noise, especially at night.”
Samsung’s partnership is so far exclusive to Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat
While Samsung is officially introducing these flagship camera features to the aforementioned social media apps, it hasn’t announced compatibility with other third-party apps. So for now, only the aforementioned apps can take advantage of the new camera features, which, mind you, require some serious hardware to work properly, like the Galaxy S22 family offerings.
What android titles mentions, it would certainly be nice if Samsung finally extended full access to its flagship camera features to other apps, in the form of APIs available to photography app developers. However, Samsung hasn’t said a word about it yet, and after all, it only took many years to reach this milestone. Although, with Samsung, you never know.
You can read all about the rest of the new camera updates and benefits that Samsung brought to the S22 series this year in our in-depth review video. And as soon as possible, we’ll add a full photo album so you can see how well the new cameras perform compared to their predecessors.
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