How to shoot real macro photography on any iPhone, even if you don't have the 13

(Pocket-lint) - One of the astir touted features of the iPhone 13 bid is the quality to shoot macro photography arsenic adjacent arsenic lone 2cm distant from the subject, thing ostensibly intolerable connected erstwhile iPhone models… oregon was it? 

Halide Mark II - Pro Camera, referred to simply arsenic Halide, is the astir fashionable and diagnostic expansive photography app disposable connected the iPhone. It unlocks a fig of photographic doors Apple’s modular camera app leads you into reasoning are intolerable - including taking macro-level photography connected older iPhone models anterior to the 13 series. 

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If you perceive to Apple, they’ll archer you lone the iPhone 13 bid has the capableness to sprout macro owed to the caller camera sensors having overmuch person focal ranges, however, the Halide app begs to differ. 

The app explains that “[our] Macro Mode lets you get super-close-up shots with fantabulous prime acknowledgment to Al and absorption tools”. 

While there’s undoubtedly going to beryllium a amended prime end-result connected 1 of the latest iPhone 13 models, you tin inactive propulsion the limits of your older iPhone by downloading Halide from the app store close here. 

How to sprout successful macro adjacent if you don’t person the iPhone 13

To sprout successful macro:

1) Download the Halide app from the app store 
2) Press the AF (autofocus) fastener to trigger manual absorption on. 
3) Select the angiosperm icon successful the bottommost lefthand corner. 
4) Bring your telephone up adjacent and idiosyncratic to the taxable successful mentation of the shot 
5) Adjust the absorption sensors utilizing the slider barroom crossed the bottommost of the viewfinder. 

^{An illustration of Halide's unsocial 'green highlight' absorption system. When the greenish lines are sharpest, you cognize the representation is successful focus.} 

And that’s it! You should beryllium capable to set the absorption truthful a antecedently blurry changeable tin present look astir arsenic precocious prime arsenic if you had the latest iPhone 13. 

Writing by Alex Allegro. Originally published connected 7 October 2021.