I built https://BayerCam.app because I'm interested in using my phone camera as a photographic tool, that I can control and understand

I get that all this new AI stuff that hallucinates the perfect picture of your dreams without any knowledge or effort required on your behalf is exciting for many, but it's just not inspiring at all to me

iOS 27 delivers on the Apple Intelligence promises of 2024 and the Liquid Glass promises of 2025

iOS might be on a 1-year marketing cycle, but empirically it takes 3 years to deliver a polished OS

Perhaps the biggest visual change is that key lighting now comes straight from the top, rather than top left; and the material gets a darkened edge

It feels like they've also improved performance, because my device doesn't get as hot running all those stacked effects

Comparing Liquid Glass in 65×24 - iOS 26 vs iOS 27 developer beta 1

Subtle changes, but overall feels good. One big weakness of Liquid Glass in iOS 26 is that it tended to blend in too much on dark backgrounds; it gets more intrinsic lighting now

The tinted setting in iOS 26 was also very minimal; it's much more pronounced now.

1984: "What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."

2026: "Hey computer will my shoes fit in my bag"

The main paradigm shifts in human computer interaction:

- the mouse
- multitouch
- staring at your device waiting on a spinner

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/116448299327732061

Small thing, but this is finally fixed in iOS 27 beta 1 🥳

I've been experimenting with photography tooling around HDR recently, and am still very ambivalent about it

Undeniably it can make for really gorgeous results (especially with black & white photos)

But the way HDR content dims non-HDR content around it (eg here side by side with a white page for demonstration), often unpredictably, is a jarring and unpleasant experience

For now I think I see it as a powerful tool for the right situations, but still not really appropriate to be on by default