iPhone photography apps. What do you use?

The Point and Shoot Pro · Oct 2, 2022

I am starting to get back into playing with my iPhone's camera. I have the shiftcam bundle coming. What are some of the apps everyone here uses for their camera? I am looking for a "Lomo" app as well. Video apps for anamorphic lenses would also be a bonus..

Lets' see what you all use.

I am a fan of Polarr.

jaberg · Oct 2, 2022

Beyond the built-in Camera and Photos app I use…

Halide

Reeflex

Reexpose

Raw Power

Touch ReTouch

Pixelmator Photo

Affinity Photo

Uncle Ricoh · Oct 2, 2022

The Point and Shoot Pro said:
I am starting to get back into playing with my iPhone's camera. I have the shiftcam bundle coming. What are some of the apps everyone here uses for their camera? I am looking for a "Lomo" app as well. Video apps for anamorphic lenses would also be a bonus..

Lets' see what you all use.

I am a fan of Polarr.

The Point and Shoot Pro · Oct 3, 2022

LiNGo0 said:
The Point and Shoot Pro said:

I am starting to get back into playing with my iPhone's camera. I have the shiftcam bundle coming. What are some of the apps everyone here uses for their camera? I am looking for a "Lomo" app as well. Video apps for anamorphic lenses would also be a bonus..

Lets' see what you all use.

I am a fan of Polarr.

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I use Filmic Pro for video, but it seems they’ve gone the way of subscriptions, unfortunately. Once they start charging me for what I’ve already purchased, I’m out. It is a good video app fwiw.

Yep, Same with Polarr. They moved to a subscription model, but I was grandfathered in. It is a great program for doing quick modifications to images.

Bill Heiser · Oct 3, 2022

I use primarily Halide camera and Lightroom Mobile for adjustments.

sarbos · Oct 3, 2022

Same here!

Tried several cameras and perfectly clear, but hallide and lightroom are the best.

Pstmstr · Oct 3, 2022

Pro Camera

Halide

Filmic Pro for video.

BAHdog · Oct 3, 2022

I’m using Camera M for closeup photography where precise focus is needed. It has some very good focusing tools. A couple weeks ago I was trying to photograph an orb spiderweb in the desert and the Native app focused on the background over and over but Camera M nailed it and lit up the strands with electric green when it focused while the enlarged loupe helped to make sure. The Native app is still best for low light or night photography.

For editing ProRaw files Pixelmator Photo or Raw Power followed and finished in Snapseed. I’ve got Affinity Photo too and like the many features and the support for working on layers with masks. Snapseed does that too.

For focus stacking Camera Pixels is amazing. You do need Affinity Photo to process your stack.you can pick and choose the images to be used out of the original stack of almost any number you choose up to 100 images. I usually use 20 images for closeup work and throw out all but five or six, whatever works for focus on the subject and keep the background out of focus.

geepondy · Oct 3, 2022

It seems to be a popular choice. Will it take and convert an Apple 48 meg DNG right on the phone and then you can save as a jpg? Can you do a lot with it by itself or do you really need a companion program like Lightroom?

jaberg · Oct 3, 2022

geepondy said:
It seems to be a popular choice. Will it take and convert an Apple 48 meg DNG right on the phone and then you can save as a jpg? Can you do a lot with it by itself or do you really need a companion program like Lightroom?

Apple’s Photos will do that conversion for you.

Eigenmeat · Oct 4, 2022

NOMO RAW hands down.

NOMO Raw has an option called "Always ProRAW-->JPG/HEIF" that takes picture in ProRAW, run through their much less destructive JPG engine, and then save to an awesome JPG/HEIF. It support both direct 48MP ProRAW and 12M super sampled ProRAW to JPG. It's does great on 14 Pro's main camera, and a substantial improvement over Apple JPG in ultrawide and telephoto as well.

It produces much less processed/sharpened JPG in general than Apple/Halide/Pro Camera. Apple, Halide and Pro Camera generate pretty garbage 48MP JPG files from their app.

Below is 48MP SOOC JPG from NOMO RAW

Scotty · Oct 4, 2022

jaberg said:
geepondy said:

It seems to be a popular choice. Will it take and convert an Apple 48 meg DNG right on the phone and then you can save as a jpg? Can you do a lot with it by itself or do you really need a companion program like Lightroom?

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Apple’s Photos will do that conversion for you.

Thanks for that tip, jaberg. I had done it in the Lightroom mobile app, but it is not quick or easy. I’ll look at the Apple Photos app for those in-phone conversions.

geepondy · Oct 4, 2022

In going to the Apple Phots App and clicking Edit, I don't see any options to convert or do a "save as".

jaberg said:
geepondy said:

It seems to be a popular choice. Will it take and convert an Apple 48 meg DNG right on the phone and then you can save as a jpg? Can you do a lot with it by itself or do you really need a companion program like Lightroom?

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Apple’s Photos will do that conversion for you.

jaberg · Oct 4, 2022

geepondy said:
In going to the Apple Phots App and clicking Edit, I don't see any options to convert or do a "save as".

jaberg said:

geepondy said:

It seems to be a popular choice. Will it take and convert an Apple 48 meg DNG right on the phone and then you can save as a jpg? Can you do a lot with it by itself or do you really need a companion program like Lightroom?

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Apple’s Photos will do that conversion for you.

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Any photograph exported from Photos is exported as a .jpg. On iOS this is done from the Share Sheet, not the edit menu.

This hasn’t been updated for iOS 16 yet but I believe it still applies: How to print and share from Photos on iPhone and iPad | iMore The linked article is part of iMore’s “complete” guide to the iOS Photos App.

JT26 · Oct 4, 2022

I tested all apps on the 11 Pro a few years back, I will do the same for the 14 Pro soon.

What we really need is an app that allows manual control with ProRAW (computational photography) not just a 'technicality' which I feel we have now.

Halide for example, the moment you chose manual aperture or shutter, ProRAW goes out the window and its basically foregoing all the nice blending of images and evening exposure and using just a single file.

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jaberg · Oct 4, 2022

JT26 said:
What we really need is an app that allows manual control with ProRAW (computational photography) not just a 'technicality' which I feel we have now.

ReeFlex allows you to shoot “full manual” in HEIC, RAW or ProRAW.

JT26 · Oct 4, 2022

Well Halide does too, in theory, but what I mean is, it'll say its a ProRAW but with manual there seems to be Zero 'computational' imaging going on, and it just shoots one RAW file that is labelled a ProRAW but isn't, this is how Halide seems to work. What we need is for example a 1 second image, with some blur to it but then it automatically exposes the highlights and shadows too... But I am 99% sure its not doing that.

Uncle Ricoh · Oct 4, 2022

JT26 said:
Well Halide does too, in theory, but what I mean is, it'll say its a ProRAW but with manual there seems to be Zero 'computational' imaging going on, and it just shoots one RAW file that is labelled a ProRAW but isn't, this is how Halide seems to work. What we need is for example a 1 second image, with some blur to it but then it automatically exposes the highlights and shadows too... But I am 99% sure its not doing that.

Eigenmeat · Oct 4, 2022

Give NOMO Raw a try, they use a ProRAW pipline to generate JPG/HEIC. All the benefit of computational photography without the over processing. 48MP samples below

JT26 · Oct 5, 2022

Will give it a go. Are you saying it just makes a JPG from the Apple ProRAW, or uses its own algorithms and set of images to make a computational image?

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