This costs $5.49 a year and also includes RAW HDR merges and a number of filter packs. This feature is available as part of the ProCamera Up subscription. This can correct converging parallels, in-camera, in real-time. There is also an auto perspective control feature. This takes up to 5 images and merges them together in-camera. Whilst the base app provides a huge amount of functionality, there are some additional paid extras. Night Mode is impressive but not as good as Apple's native one. You can also lock exposure and focus with a long press. This is done by dragging the focus square and exposure ring to any location on the screen. You can also choose where to focus and where to read the exposure. By Jason Row Photography.įor those who like to shoot in manual or semi-auto modes, you can display a live histogram at the top of the screen. The ability to control shutter speed is useful in freezing action. You can, of course, control white balance either automatically or by dialing in a temperature and tint. There is an intuitive 3D tiltmeter that shows you the angle of your camera in both tilt and yaw planes. Bothie will shoot using both the rear and front cameras at the same time. HDR mode, limited to three shots in the basic app, low light mode, selfie, and bothie. These include a powerful video mode that allows you to record in higher bitrates than the Apple standard. There are several modes available for you beyond the standard photo mode. This image is a three shot HDR merge done in Lightroom. There is also a useful exposure compensation feature allowing you to dial in a different exposure in auto or semi-auto modes. In semi-auto, you can take control of either the ISO or shutter speed. In auto, the app will control all aspects of the exposure. On most smartphone cameras the aperture is fixed. You can, of course, set your exposure manually, controlling both the shutter speed and ISO. You can also capture in the new HEIF format as well as TIFF. However, a neat little trick borrowed from larger cameras is the ability to shoot RAW/JPEG at the same time. The ability to shoot in RAW is a must in high-end photography apps and ProCamera does this using Adobe RAW, DNG files. Let’s look first at what the $8.99 gets you. Quite expensive compared to some other apps, but in the context of what it does, very good value. The price of the basic app is $8.99/£8.99. Like many apps these days, ProCamera offers a certain level of initial functionality supplemented by paid bolt-ons. By Jason Row Photography ProCamera’s Headline Features. So far, in my limited experience with ProCamera, it does the best of all the apps I have used. I am looking for an app that will present that functionality in the most intuitive way. Most pro-level camera apps have pretty similar functionality. So what am I looking for in a smartphone camera app? My primary concern is its ergonomics. They would include FirstLight, Lightroom Mobile, and Camera +.Īll of them have powerful features, but all of them also have significant drawbacks. A lot of mediocre ones, some decent ones, and a very few that would really be classed as professional tools. There are a lot of camera apps on the App Store. On the recommendation of a friend I bought it and these are my thoughts on using it on an iPhone 11 Pro Why ProCamera? One of those early apps was ProCamera and in its current incarnation, it is highly regarded, as one of the best camera apps for iPhones. These developers found ways to tap the hidden potential in smartphone cameras by creating their own dedicated camera apps. Amongst those people were developers of photographic apps. However, some smart people saw that, in time, cameras on smartphones could revolutionize photography. Now, no-one in their right mind is going to say that the original iPhone’s camera was good. It was however revolutionary and one of the things that helped it be revolutionary was its camera. By today’s standards, it would be slow, sluggish, and lacking in functionality. Back in 2007, I bought the original iPhone 1.
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