I love learning and reading about the technology behind some of my favorite features. Motion Photos (and Apple's version as well) has been one of the biggest "I didn't know I wanted this" features on modern smartphones for me.<p>I've taken a lot of pictures of my dogs over the years but the pure <i>joy</i> I had when one of the first photos I took with my new phone turned into a looping 1 second video was surprising to me. I'm really looking forward to this summer when I get to take too many photos of my new kid.<p>Now if only I could directly upload these to Instagram without having to manually loop them...
One thing I want to ask google is, why can't I browse through my previously-taken motion photos when I'm in a dead cell zone?<p>I went to the aquarium this weekend, took a lot of motion photos- but when scrolling through them in the gift shop, the "motion on" button just turned into an eternal loading icon. <i>Even on photos I had taken the previous week.</i>
Google's computational photo/video expertise is so far ahead of any traditional camera manufacturer..<p>I wish they would release a prosumer Android camera with a 1"+ sensor, perhaps m43 mount, 10bit video and large bitrates - with all of their computational photo goodies.