iOS 4.1 with HDR built-in comes as a shock to HDR app developers

I (recently) bought prohdr, I will keep it around for extreme situations, but the real reason it's pretty much dead is that prohdr photos are not geotagged, whereas the native images are

I think this will drive sales, people will start realizing the power of tone mapping and will seek apps that take it a step further.

HDR is NOT that crap that people post on the web in which they have used Photoshop or some other automated tool to produce those 'garish' and craptastic pictures. HDR IS when you produce a natural looking photo without blown highlights and with shadow detail.

I went out and shot a series of pictures with the built in HDR, and they are fantastic. I've used TrueHDR in the past, and while yes, it's great, this is IMO better. These shots just look correct, and didn't take any adjustment on my end.

I hope that TrueHDR and other apps continue to be developed and with options that the built in camera does not give you, continue to sell.

Thanks Apple, it's nice to see such a great feature.

This is a tale as old as time, in the computer world. Remember Disk Doubler and Stacker in the 90's? How about Netscape?

I bought both Pro HDR and True HDR, and I have enjoyed using them. I'll have to see how I like the native app in my own use (I prefer the native version in the motorcycle pic above).

I like being able to tap on the light and dark areas myself, so I'll keep the other apps unless I find I never go to them for a year or so.

I wish I'd had one of these apps for my Stonehenge sunset inside the stones tour a few weeks ago.

funny when apple implements something developers will scream, but apple's not giving a lot of control in their implementation of the HDR technology. You can. Just develop a better app. Simple.

(thank god) this isn't the extreme hdr we seem (way too much of) all over the internet these days. Really they're just recovering highlights, that's it. It may or may not work right depending on what you think of hdr.

Pro HDR actually allows you to do a manual or automatic HDR.

From reading the details, I'd say it might work, however when I use TrueHDR I often have to carefully play around with where I want to focus for my bright area and where I want to focus for my dark area. I don't think the built-in app will be quite as effective. That's just me. Will I use it? Sure. But I'll continue with TrueHDR and maybe others. Below is a sample I shot this morning:

http://twitpic.com/2khyo7

Don't feel too bad HDR app devs. I recently put up an app that does 720p uploading of videos, and that one's going to go downhill after the update too. I am still going to push one major revision to make it continue to be useful, but I think my audience is going to shrink rapidly after the iOS update.