Xiaomi's New Astrophotography Mode Brings Pro-Features to the Masses

First revealed by XDA developers, Xiomi’s MIUI 12 is supposedly a long-exposure mode, allowing users to capture long-trail photos of moving objects. Despite being called the “Astrophotography” mode, long-exposure shots have been proven to have many uses from capturing large crowds of people, traffic at night, water movement and much more.

Furthermore, in the same leak, XDA developers has unveiled photos of the feature already being utilised in a beta build of MIUI 12 running on a Redmi K30 Pro. The screenshots shows many different settings users may choose in order to get the best results possible, ranging from light painting, silky water to a starry sky mode.

While other phone manufacturers - specially in the higher end market - have already implemented this feature onto their devices, Xiaomi’s implementation brings us new excitement. For the first time, users who own entry level devices will be able to perform camera tricks that have been long locked behind a pay wall.

This announcement does not only bring a pro feature to the masses, but reassures us that Xiaomi’s main goal remains the same: accessibility. In a time where the company has aimed to innovate its design language, using more premium construction techniques and offering increasingly expensive devices, this announcement shows us that Xiaomi still cares to offer top of the line features for a lower place.

Or at least we hope so - besides the existence of this feature, not much is known in terms of which devices will and will not support this feature. If the company’s history of introducing features such as night mode across their entire range of devices is anything to consider however, then we can’t see this new Astrophotography mode being any being.

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