sbug
Acceptably Sharp
I typically use the stock camera app for shooting but the other three apps that get some use are:
Cortex Cam - Great for low light shots (combines several shots to reduce blur and noise)
AvgCamPro - Combines multiple exposures for long exposure style shots (you set the number of pictures, shooting interval and pre-start delay as well as setting exposure, focus and white balance)
Manual - gives access to the main camera controls in a fairly intuitive interface (gets a bit crowded on a smaller screen like a 5s iPhone)
All three are worth a try but if you only want to try one, I use AvgCamPro the most of the three. I'm a big fan of this app.
Cortex Cam - Great for low light shots (combines several shots to reduce blur and noise)
AvgCamPro - Combines multiple exposures for long exposure style shots (you set the number of pictures, shooting interval and pre-start delay as well as setting exposure, focus and white balance)
Manual - gives access to the main camera controls in a fairly intuitive interface (gets a bit crowded on a smaller screen like a 5s iPhone)
All three are worth a try but if you only want to try one, I use AvgCamPro the most of the three. I'm a big fan of this app.
squirrel$$$bandit
Veteran
Oh I totally forgot: Obscura! It's a superb, stripped-down app with manual control of everything. Even manual focus is available. And a lovely, spare interface!
raid
Dad Photographer
This seems to be a very useful app.
KEH
Well-known
Raid,
I tend to use PureShot as the taking app - lots of control, including over / under exposure settings. It will save a TIF or two different levels of relatively uncompressed JPGs.
CortexCam is good for low light, as someone has mentioned.
For editing I have Snapseed and a couple of others. But unless I need to edit 'in the field', I just upload to Lightroom and edit from there.
Cheers,
Kirk
I tend to use PureShot as the taking app - lots of control, including over / under exposure settings. It will save a TIF or two different levels of relatively uncompressed JPGs.
CortexCam is good for low light, as someone has mentioned.
For editing I have Snapseed and a couple of others. But unless I need to edit 'in the field', I just upload to Lightroom and edit from there.
Cheers,
Kirk
raid
Dad Photographer
Thanks for this tip, Kirk. I will do some reading next.
gb hill
Veteran
How do you send photo's from your iphone to the RFF gallery? RFF isn't smartphone friendly so I rarely ever open RFF on my iphone. Only way I know of is to send the photo to my email then send to documents/photos on my desktop. I'm just wondering if there is an easier way.
gb hill
Veteran
Wow that looks interesting.Oh I totally forgot: Obscura! It's a superb, stripped-down app with manual control of everything. Even manual focus is available. And a lovely, spare interface!
raid
Dad Photographer
gb hill
Veteran
I do same as what you have been doing, GB.
Ok. I just saw your photos in the gallery. Very stunning. Picked one for Photo of the Week.
JoeV
Thin Air, Bright Sun
If you use Flickr, the desktop browser version has a link that provides you with a private email address for your Flickr photo stream. Then add that address to your iPhone's contacts list. When you're ready to send a photo, just email it from your camera roll to the Flickr address; the photo shows up in your Flickr soon thereafter.
Once it's in flickr you can grab the BB code link and paste it into an RFF thread.
~Joe
raid
Dad Photographer
Thanks.
Can the ISO setting be changed when you don't use an external software for the iphone? I see ISO=125 only in some of my panorama images. Else it is 6400/
raid
Dad Photographer
This is useful. Thanks, Joe.
shawn
Veteran
2WK
Rangefinder User
Please take a look at Mattebox...It's pretty awesome.
willie_901
Veteran
Yes, it's a great App. 645Pro also supports saving files in a dRAW TIFF format which are uncompressed. I think dRAW is just a 645Pro's marketing name for uncompressed TIFF files. I do not know if these are linear files. But, compared to JPEGS, they are superior for post-production rendering.
squirrel$$$bandit
Veteran
I've been using Obscura, the app I mentioned earlier, and wanted to share some images. This app seriously gives some of the best black and white photos I've ever seen from a phone. These were taken in the past few weeks with an iPhone 6s+.
shawn
Veteran
" This app seriously gives some of the best black and white photos I've ever seen from a phone. "
Nice, I will have to try this out. You might want to try 645 Pro if you haven't. It has 6 different B&W film emulation modes as well as the additional ability to add color filters effects (red, green, yellow, blue...etc..etc..) to the B&W conversion. Lots of flexibility.
Shawn
Nice, I will have to try this out. You might want to try 645 Pro if you haven't. It has 6 different B&W film emulation modes as well as the additional ability to add color filters effects (red, green, yellow, blue...etc..etc..) to the B&W conversion. Lots of flexibility.
Shawn
squirrel$$$bandit
Veteran
I will, thanks!
marcr1230
Well-known
Obscura Camera App:
Downloaded it now after reading this thread, very useful
interestingly , it seems that this slow speed shot is a composite of 3 sensor reads - if you look at the ends of the train car in the center of the shot.
Downloaded it now after reading this thread, very useful
interestingly , it seems that this slow speed shot is a composite of 3 sensor reads - if you look at the ends of the train car in the center of the shot.
russelljtdyer
Writer
Using Lightroom Mobile as a Camera App.
Using Lightroom Mobile as a Camera App.
I bought an iPhone 6s this week -- I had Sony Xperia (android) phones before this -- and wanted a good camera application for it. I wanted one that allows me to make adjustments like I can on my Sony RX100 M3 compact camera.
I read this thread and checked some of the recommendations. This led me to buy the Obscura camera application. After using it for a short time, I found it irritating to control. It's too fluid and tries too hard to be simple or intuitive. I looked around some more and stumbled on something I already had, but didn't know it.
What I discovered today is that the mobile version of Lightroom, which I already have on my phone and tablets, provides camera controls. Below is a screenshot from my phone showing a shot of my living room:
This is the layout for Professional choice, as opposed to the Automatic choice. On the right are the various exposure settings: White Balance, ISO, Shutter Speed, and Exposure Compensation. You can lock these settings -- notice the gold colored lock icon. On the left you can set image ratio (i.e., 16:9, 3:2, 4:3, and 1:1), although it actually saves the full size (i.e., 4:3) and then crops it for you. You can reset it to the original format later in Lightroom. You can also set a timer, and turn on or off a few grids. You can also have it display a level -- you can see it at the center of this image. Further left you can set the file format to DNG or JPG, as well as enable the flash. You can tap the screen where you want to focus -- that's the square around the goose decoy head. This image isn't in focus because I fumbled with the phone to make the screenshot and it's not locked -- the [ + ] Auto on the right isn't in gold.
Lightroom Mobile will automatically synchronize photos to the cloud and thereby Lightroom on my desktop computer. Synchronizing, the uploading and downloading can be slow if you're using DNG format -- those files are large. You can instead import photos to the desktop by using a Lightning Fire cable and Import in the desktop version of Lightroom. However, that will only get you JPG photos that have been shared with iPhone's Photos application. Apple seems to trap each application on the iPhone, and Adobe doesn't allow synching through the LAN -- they have to go through the Adobe cloud.
If you want to adjust the image file settings on the phone, though, you can do plenty with the mobile application. Below are two screenshots showing some adjustments that are possible, of which there are many.
Overall, it's the best camera application I've seen. This includes a few days of looking for one for the iPhone and a few years of using Android camera applications.
Using Lightroom Mobile as a Camera App.
I bought an iPhone 6s this week -- I had Sony Xperia (android) phones before this -- and wanted a good camera application for it. I wanted one that allows me to make adjustments like I can on my Sony RX100 M3 compact camera.
I read this thread and checked some of the recommendations. This led me to buy the Obscura camera application. After using it for a short time, I found it irritating to control. It's too fluid and tries too hard to be simple or intuitive. I looked around some more and stumbled on something I already had, but didn't know it.
What I discovered today is that the mobile version of Lightroom, which I already have on my phone and tablets, provides camera controls. Below is a screenshot from my phone showing a shot of my living room:
This is the layout for Professional choice, as opposed to the Automatic choice. On the right are the various exposure settings: White Balance, ISO, Shutter Speed, and Exposure Compensation. You can lock these settings -- notice the gold colored lock icon. On the left you can set image ratio (i.e., 16:9, 3:2, 4:3, and 1:1), although it actually saves the full size (i.e., 4:3) and then crops it for you. You can reset it to the original format later in Lightroom. You can also set a timer, and turn on or off a few grids. You can also have it display a level -- you can see it at the center of this image. Further left you can set the file format to DNG or JPG, as well as enable the flash. You can tap the screen where you want to focus -- that's the square around the goose decoy head. This image isn't in focus because I fumbled with the phone to make the screenshot and it's not locked -- the [ + ] Auto on the right isn't in gold.
Lightroom Mobile will automatically synchronize photos to the cloud and thereby Lightroom on my desktop computer. Synchronizing, the uploading and downloading can be slow if you're using DNG format -- those files are large. You can instead import photos to the desktop by using a Lightning Fire cable and Import in the desktop version of Lightroom. However, that will only get you JPG photos that have been shared with iPhone's Photos application. Apple seems to trap each application on the iPhone, and Adobe doesn't allow synching through the LAN -- they have to go through the Adobe cloud.
If you want to adjust the image file settings on the phone, though, you can do plenty with the mobile application. Below are two screenshots showing some adjustments that are possible, of which there are many.
Overall, it's the best camera application I've seen. This includes a few days of looking for one for the iPhone and a few years of using Android camera applications.