Why is Apple 6plus time-lapse photography a snapshot?

You may have misunderstood. Time-lapse photography, also known as time-lapse photography, is a shooting technique that compresses time. It takes a group of photos or videos, and then through photo stitching or video frame extraction, it compresses the process of minutes, hours or even days and years into a short period of time and plays it out in the form of video. In time-lapse photography video, the slow change of an object or scene is compressed in a very short time, presenting a strange and wonderful scene that is usually imperceptible to the naked eye. Time-lapse photography can be regarded as the opposite of high-speed photography.

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