• akilou@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Once a picture is taken and compressed into a jpeg (or whatever) why is there a need for any extra support beyond “sending an image”?

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      11 months ago

      Ultra HDR is a new image format available with Android 14 on supported devices & camera. Basically it’s a JPEG image but some additional data added to it when captured on supported devices. With ultra HDR, images can have darker shadows and brighter highlights.

      I thought the same thing at first, but it sounds like it is just that you can now view the “Ultra HDR”-ness within the app.

      Also,

      Google Messages doesn’t strip the gain map metadata from images

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        11 months ago

        Yeah I guess it probably strips unknown data segments from the file for security and privacy, and it would have a whitelist of segment types it will keep

        And of course the ability to display them with ultra HDR

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      11 months ago

      Well, it does spell out the difference of Ultra HDR. However, you asked “need?” There is absolutely no need (in my opinion) of better pictures, but I also rarely take or view them so I might not be the best judge.

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      11 months ago

      Obviously it’s not exactly a 1:1 comparison, but think of the image having HDR metadata like an HDR YouTube video. Even though it’s compressed, it could still contain HDR attributes like 10-bit color or a certain screen brightness when viewing the specific images.