From the Editor`s Desk: Fun with HDR+
(Android Central)

Port of Pixel camera app to other phones shows Google is still almost unmatched in computational photography. One of the major trends in smartphones in the past year has been the rise of computational photography — using the vast computing power of modern phones to get better pictures from the tiny lenses and sensors in our devices. However wrong Vic Gundotra was in his recent tirade against Android cameras, he was basically right in saying that improvements in software processing were arguably more important than any recent breakthroughs in phone camera hardware. The Google Pixel is a great example of this. If you follow this stuff, you know Google`s 2016 handsets as, among other things, phones with famously good cameras. Yet on paper, the Pixels` cameras are inferior to the HTC 10. The reason we`re still talking about the Pixel cameras a year on, and not HTC`s, is HDR+. This is enabled by default in the Pixel`s camera software, and its history can be traced back to the `GCa...