GRLife Pro 2.4: Live photos, a short clip with every shot
GRLife Pro 2.4 is out. It adds Live photos: once switched on, the camera saves a short silent clip with every photo, about 1.5 seconds before and 1.5 seconds after the shutter. Afterwards the site’s Live Photo Export page turns photo and clip into a picture that moves in your phone’s gallery. It works on the GR III, GR IIIx and GR IV (Beta). The film library has not changed.
Live photos
- Where: Press OK while shooting to open GRLife Pro; “Live photos” is the last row of the Features page. Choose “Before + after” or “After only”; it is off by default.
- What it records: “Before + after” is about 1.5 s before and 1.5 s after the shutter, “After only” just the 1.5 s after it. The clip has no sound; it records the live view, at a lower resolution than the photo.
- Where it goes: Clips go to the SD card’s GRLIFE folder. Photos are saved as usual and are not changed.
- ADJ: “Live photo” (Off / On) can be assigned to ADJ, to pause and resume it while shooting without opening GRLife Pro.
- Battery: It uses more battery while on; turn it off when you don’t need it.
Into your phone’s gallery
- Put the SD card in a computer or phone and open the site’s Live Photo Export page.
- Pick the card’s root folder; the page pairs each photo with its clip by the time it was taken.
- Export as iPhone Live Photos or Android motion photos and save them to your gallery.
Files are processed in your browser and are not uploaded. Open Live Photo Export →
Supported cameras
- GR III / GR IIIx: Available in this version.
- GR IV: Available in this version; in Beta, like the rest of the GR IV version. The GR IV does not support the anamorphic lens yet.
Known limits
- Photos recorded as RAW only get no clip; JPEG and RAW+JPEG do.
- GR III / IIIx: in a burst, only the first 3 photos get a clip.
- GR IV: in a burst of up to 3 photos, the first photo gets a clip; a burst of 4 or more gets none. After a long burst, Live photos resume once the card access lamp has gone out.
- If you power off right after a shot, the camera first finishes writing the clip, so it turns off a few seconds later.
How to update
- Open the firmware page, generate again and download the ZIP.
- Flash the new firmware as the chart on the page shows. This time all three cameras need flashing.
- Copy GRLPRO.GRP from the ZIP’s GRLIFE folder into the GRLIFE folder on the card, replacing the old one. Keep the FILMS.GRF already on the card; don’t overwrite it with the ZIP’s copy, which holds only the five built-in films.
- Turn the camera on with the card in, wait about 10 seconds and press OK to open GRLife Pro: About should show v2.4.
If you don’t use Live photos there is no need to update; nothing else has changed.
Tested on a GR IIIx (official firmware 1.71) and a GR IV (official firmware 1.21); the GR III and the other firmware versions share the same changes and passed the offline checks.
The film library is unchanged: still 92 films, and nothing new to get this time. The five built-in films are free; the GRLife Pro Film Collection, once you have it, covers all 92 films in the library and every film added later.
Open the firmware page See the Film Collection
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