In my roundup of what I saw as the 11 key AI features announced by Apple at this year’s WWDC, I said that the camera features seemed extremely well thought through.
In the two weeks since, my view has been very much reinforced. The Clean Up tool is now significantly more powerful, while the Reframe and Extend tools address similar real-life needs …
Photography is changing
I got my first camera as a birthday present at the age of 14. It was a Zenit-E, a Soviet-era Russian hunk of metal that weighed about as much as a car and had exactly zero electronics or automatic features.
Technically, it had a built-in light meter, but this was a Selenium one that could just about measure the difference between a pitch black room and being pointed directly at the sun. An external light meter was needed, and every exposure had to be manually configured. It was ugly, heavy, and clunky – and I absolutely adored it.
