For those with low-end or modest smartphone hardware, a solid camera experience is often something you have to sacrifice as your budget shifts. That is starting to change thanks to apps like Google Camera Go, which now allow users to take HDR photos on low-end smartphones.
In fact, Google Camera Go is a repackaged version of Pixel’s Google Camera app, but for those with smartphones who are unlikely to ever win a prize for mobile photography. In recent months, we’ve seen the adoption of Nokia handsets jump to more devices, plus the ability to take long exposure photos in Night mode.
As an app that focuses entirely on the kind of devices that often come with a barebones camera application, you get some neat new tricks without having to upgrade your device. The results are a mixed bag, but overall they are impressive considering you’re not using the best of the best.
Google has confirmed on Twitter that support for HDR photos is now rolling out to Google Camera Go, which allows some of the cheapest Android phones to take photos “with sharper detail and richer colors” at any time of day.
HDR photos on smartphones work by taking multiple photos with different exposures, which are then combined to reveal much more detail in shadows and areas of bright highlights. It’s a neat trick that budget devices often can’t replicate with a filter. Google Camera Go allows you to change this HDR setting and we are sure it will be a big bonus for almost all shooting scenarios.
As before, trying to sideload the Google Camera Go app on devices that aren’t officially supported means you won’t actually be able to access the new HDR and Night modes. Google technically only supports a small number of smartphones, which means this is a limited rollout of an impressive camera feature.
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