AuraHDR Camera

September 24, 2024

8.0.1 Minor bug fixes We are happy to launch AuraHDR 8.0 our second giant upgrade of the year! It features an all new focus bracketing mode and moon shooting. Check all the new features below! 1. AUTOMATIC FOCUS BRACKETING - New focus bracketing mode (AUTO) captures precise brackets in two steps. - Tap the nearest focus point and shoot! - Supports up to 100 brackets with adjustable focus increment - Perfect for tack sharp close-up and landscape shots. 2. MOON SHOOTING - Moon shooting lets you capture any moon easily with beautiful detail and color. - Simply zoom in and shoot - Works in even difficult super high contrast situations. 3. EASILY SWITCH HDR AND FOCUS BRACKET SETTINGS - We've created a new dialog to make it much easier to change hdr/focus bracket settings. - Simply tap the new context button to access. 4. LONG EXPOSURE IMPROVENTS - With AuraHDR 8.0, you can now change the duration when shooting long exposure mode. - Experiment with various blur effect for optimum results. 5. IMPROVED INTERFACE - We've reduced the number of menu items and added a new context button to easily change settings for the different modes.

September 23, 2024

We are happy to launch AuraHDR 8.0 our second giant upgrade of the year! Check out the new features! 1. AUTOMATIC FOCUS BRACKETING - New focus bracketing mode (AUTO) captures precise brackets in two steps. - Tap the nearest focus point and shoot! - Supports up to 100 brackets with adjustable focus increment - Perfect for tack sharp close-up and landscape shots. 2. MOON SHOOTING - Moon shooting lets you capture any moon easily with beautiful detail and color. - Simply zoom in and shoot - Works in even difficult super high contrast situations. 3. EASILY SWITCH HDR AND FOCUS BRACKET SETTINGS - We've created a new dialog to make it much easier to change hdr/focus bracket settings. - Simply tap the new context button to access. 4. LONG EXPOSURE IMPROVENTS - With AuraHDR 8.0, you can now change the duration when shooting long exposure mode. - Experiment with various blur effect for optimum results.

June 4, 2024

AuraHDR 7.0 is our best ever release with a ton of improvements which solidify AuraHDR as the ultimate app for computational photography. Check out the 6 improvements: 1. Improved HDR quality. We've updated AuraEngine 7.0 tone mapping to deliver even better images in any light. AuraHDR now shows more shadow and detail and has enhanced tone mapping algorithm 2. More HDR brackets. We've significantly increased the number of HDR bracket choices to 7 which allows even more flexibility to capture brackets the way you want it. Now you can shoot from 2-4 brackets with varying exposure ranges. 3. New Clarity and Sharpness Panel. We've added a new clarity and sharpness panel which gives you detailed crispy images with two essential sliders. 4. New X-Light Preset. This powerful HDR preset allows for detail and color recovery in the brightest/harshest lighting conditions better than any app. Excellent for recovering detail in street lams and neon signs. 5. Improved Interface. We've enhanced HDR sliders to include percentage values, double tap to reset a value. We've also added in pinch to zoom across our HDR preview app. 6. Improved Editing. We've added in a new Effects slider to allow for adjusting the strength of HDr and a Reduce Halo to allow control of removing ugly halos Subscribe to our Youtube channel to get the latest tutorials on how to get the most beautiful images out of AuraHDR app

August 3, 2023

6.1.0 (1) Improved Focus Bracketing Now.you can specify focus points to include in your focus brackets.  Simply tap-to-focus and press 'Add' on the dialog. Repeat as many times as you wish. When done tap the shutter. Brackets will be saved into your gallery.  Import into any focus stacking app for tack sharp results. (2) Cleaner High Quality (HQ) RAW/JPEG HDR Brackets In 6.1.0 HDR brackets High Quality (HQ) mode now captures images in a much lower ISO across ALLl three brackets. This allows for superb quality HDR images in low or even no light. As a reminder, do use a tripod in this mode as the shutter remains open to ensure a cleaner image. (3) Multiple interface Bug Fixes to improve stability 6.0.0 AuraHDR 6.0 is our biggest upgrade ever and brings to 6 our core set of features! This makes AuraHDR the best app for computational photography! Check out the new features that help you take even better photos! (1) Improved HDR Camera. We have steadily improved HDR Camera since launch and version 6.0 is our best ever. AuraEngine 6.0 our latest tone mapping engine now produces images with even better color, detail, and much less artifacts. (2) Long Exposure Mode. With AuraHDR it's super easy to get dreamy long exposure effects which work day or night . Great flowing water and moving lights. (3) Focus Bracketing. Do you want images sharp throughout the frame? With AuraHDR 6 it's easy to capture focus brackets that can be inputted to any focus stacking editor to deliver images with maximum depth-of-field and sharpness from edge-to-edge. (4) Simplified HDR sliders. We've simplified our HDR sliders for a better user experience while adding new ones like exposure and contrast that help make your images pop.

July 11, 2023

6.0.1  Fixes an issue where the app would crash when a photo is located in icloud 6.0.0 AuraHDR 6.0 is our biggest upgrade ever and brings to 6 our core set of features! This makes AuraHDR the best app for computational photography! Check out the new features that help you take even better photos! (1) Improved HDR Camera. We have steadily improved HDR Camera since launch and version 6.0 is our best ever. AuraEngine 6.0 our latest tone mapping engine now produces images with even better color, detail, and much less artifacts. (2) Long Exposure Mode. With AuraHDR it's super easy to get dreamy long exposure effects which work day or night . Great flowing water and moving lights. (3) Focus Bracketing. Do you want images sharp throughout the frame? With AuraHDR 6 it's easy to capture focus brackets that can be inputted to any focus stacking editor to deliver images with maximum depth-of-field and sharpness from edge-to-edge. (4) Simplified HDR sliders. We've simplified our HDR sliders for a better user experience while adding new ones like exposure and contrast that help make your images pop.

July 9, 2023

AuraHDR 6.0 is our biggest upgrade ever and brings to 6 our core set of features! This makes AuraHDR the best app for computational photography! Check out the new features that help you take even better photos! (1) Improved HDR Camera. We have steadily improved HDR Camera since launch and version 6.0 is our best ever. AuraEngine 6.0 our latest tone mapping engine now produces images with even better color, detail, and much less artifacts. (2) Long Exposure Mode. With AuraHDR it's super easy to get dreamy long exposure effects which work day or night . Great flowing water and moving lights. (3) Focus Bracketing. Do you want images sharp throughout the frame? With AuraHDR 6 it's easy to capture focus brackets that can be inputted to any focus stacking editor to deliver images with maximum depth-of-field and sharpness from edge-to-edge. (4) Simplified HDR sliders. We've simplified our HDR sliders for a better user experience while adding new ones like exposure and contrast that help make your images pop.

September 11, 2022

We're happy to launch our biggest update ever with AuraHDR 5.0.0 less than 5 months from version 4.X.X 7 MAJOR IMPROVENTS 1. IMPROVED TONE MAPPING. Our latest upgrade to AuraEngine 5.0 tone mapping produces our most pleasing images with improvements to color, detail, contrast and artifact reduction. 2. HIGH QUALITY RAW AND JPEG BRACKET CAPTURE This new mode developed specially for low light allows you to capture cleanest low light/night exposure brackets on even poor quality cameras. As usual images can be merged to professional HDR editors like Photomatix. A tripod is recommended for best results. 3. FASTER EDITING PROCESSING.  Adjustment sliders and presets now render at a fraction of the time compared to the previous version with our reengineered previewing system. 4. MORE EDITING SLIDERS.  Now there are 11 adjustments sliders (from 9) which allows you even better control over every aspect of your HDR's tone mapping to suit your preferred look. We've added sliders for detail, contrast, vibrance and even halo reduction. As usual, you can save these settings to any preset to automatically take effect once you take the shot. 5. UPGRADED PRESETS AuraHDR 5.0 improves performance of the presets to give even better results with one tap in any situation. NATURAL and BRILLIANT. These presets are great in recovering detail in bright highlights and work great to bring brilliant color in night lights. DEFAULT and STRONG. Better than ever for for recovering vivid color and detail in even extremely dark areas. All other presets have been tweaked for even better results. 6. IMPROVED RAW AND JPEG BRACKET SHOOTING. AuraHDR 5.0 now gives better notifications on the status of the bracket shooting so you know when the shots have been saved. We've also enhanced the stability of the Bracket shooting to virtually remove annoying crashes. 7. UI TWEAKS AND BUG FIXES. We've re-engineered the app to reduce even more bugs and prevent crashes. AuraHDR 5.0 is simply our most stable and efficiently performing version ever!

March 23, 2022

4.1.0 is another big update just two months since our last release: Check out the latest improvements: 1. Huge HDR Tone mapping improvements.  AuraHDR 4.1.0 produces our best ever images. You can expect: -Better contrast -Natural tones -Reduced artifacts -Dramatically faster performance 2. Multi-RAW File Transfer. Transfer RAW files directly to your computer. 3. Timer HDR Function. Get high quality HDR selfies with the main camera using the new timer. 4. Smart Contrast Slider. Get better midtone color and contrast with our latest slider. 5. Improved EXIF information.

January 28, 2022

Were pleased to launch 4.0.0 with a host of major upgrades: 1. Improved Tone mapping. With our latest tone mapping, images have greater dynamic range, more vivid detail, and richer color than previous iterations. 2. RAW bracket shooting. Now you can exposure brackets in RAW format which gives the maximum quality you can import into a professional HDR editor. 3. Improved Presets and Editing. HDR Presets and Editing produce more natural results than previous iterations. We've reworked our editing sliderse for even better output. 4. Faster Performance. Switch ing presets and moving sliders now take much less time. 5. Improved Help and Tutorials. To get maximum results we've improved our help and tutorials to make sure you know how get the best looking HDR images.

October 16, 2021

Fixed issues where presets do not display properly specifically: Custom1, Custom2, and Vivid. Please tap 'Restore Defaults' on the preset to get the proper settings

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