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what's up everyone John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo here and I want to give you a demonstration of the new HDR functionality built into iOS 4.1 for the iPhone 4 if you might remember HDR stands for a high dynamic range essentially it takes three pictures one underexposed one overexposed and one normal and combines them into one supposedly better looking image this is not going to be present on the iPod Touch unfortunately no matter what version of software you have HDR is not present there but let's go ahead and see if it even makes a difference alright so for our test subject I am dog-sitting so please meet Betsy she is a sleeping sleeping beagle who is going to be our subject so first you do have some new settings here if you jump on into settings and go to photos you'll see where it talks about the high dynamic range pictures tell us a little bit about what it does blends the best part of three separate exposures into a single photo awesome or not awesome we'll see you can choose to either keep the normal photo and the HDR or just keep the HTR for this test we're gonna go ahead and keep the normal so we'll go ahead and hop on into camera you're gonna get a new option at the top that's going to say HDR on that's letting you know that HDR is on that doesn't mean turn it on sort of confusing alright so there is Betsy I'm going to go ahead and snap a picture I'm pretty normal light it's gonna take a bit longer than usual to take the image so it's saving HDR let's go ahead and see if it made any sort of difference whatsoever so there is the HDR image that's not actually watermark on the picture itself if we're to print it just on your iPhone so you can tell which one is the HDR there's HDR image and there's a regular image looks a little bit better not necessarily that much better let's try taking one more so go back to camera I'm gonna get up nice and close to Betsy and see if that's gonna make a difference Betsy okay so that's saved it let's go ahead and see you Thursday me should have difference there so there is the HDR image it actually looks pretty good and there's a regular image this one you can actually see a difference in I can see the different colorations on our fur on her nose pretty clearly and seems sort of the granular hairs on our head on the regular image you can still see a difference in the color on our muzzle but it's not quite as vibrant and you lose some of the resolution on top of her head kind of interesting I love both of these pictures up after the video so you can take a look and you guys can decide about whether or not you think the HDR technology is going to be worth it for you or not by comparison purposes you saw how quickly the pictures how long it took to take the pictures with HDR it's much much quicker to each year I've turned off you want to snap a quick image you're gonna want to turn that off so I just turned it off take a picture Betsy much much faster and your guys stay tuned to see all those full images I'm John render from TechnoBuffalo and say hi to Betsy because you may see her in a few more videos bye bye you