Mostly to see what happens in the wild. Opening up the manual controls creates a lot of opportunity for vertical use apps in specialized photography fields. I can easily see some low light camera apps with third party image processing getting a lot of use here.
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iOS 8 to Expand Manual Controls for iPhone Photographers
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Mostly to see what happens in the wild. Opening up the manual controls creates a lot of opportunity for vertical use apps in specialized photography fields. I can easily see some low light camera apps with third party image processing getting a lot of use here.
Won't really happen. iOS8 doesn't add any new usable feature WRT low-light shooting; for example, the minimal shutter speed is still 1 sec. (Se my previous posts all around MacRumors for more info.)
Nevertheless, the new manual modes are still great.
Raw
What I really want from the iOS camera app is the ability to export raw image files so that I can process them in CaptureOne, Aperture or some other decent raw converter. The iPhone camera itself is good enough to make a difference.
What I really want from the iOS camera app is the ability to export raw image files so that I can process them in CaptureOne, Aperture or some other decent raw converter. The iPhone camera itself is good enough to make a difference.
Whenever you have a platform of this distribution, it starts to fall into thousands of niches where someone is trying to make a buck coming up with a 50-cent solution in an expensive niche. I don't expect the camera app from Apple to change much but you'll see a bunch niche apps with bizarre specialties.
As I've pointed out above, the current camera implementation simply doesn't allow for properly shooting under certain circumstances; for example, very fast-moving (e.g., running) subjects under bad light. A manual shutter speed priority (or the equivalent ISO priority) mode will help this tremendously - as has done on all competing mobile platforms for years.
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Exactly. Too bad RAW is still missing from iOS8. (Video, on the other hand, seem to support gibing access to the original, uncompressed video frames.)
You do for the best results. See http://photo.stackexchange.com/ques...ite-balance-of-a-raw-file-but-not-a-jpeg-file
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Prolly the only cameraphone with variable aperture was the Nokia N86. Not even the 808 monster has variable aperture.
Sorry to dissapoint you, but Nokia delivered months ago.
http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/10/29/another-nokia-first-digital-negatives-raw-dng-lumia/
http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/11/20/nokia-camera-raw-dng-support-available-now/
Lumia 1020, 1520, Icon/930 and probably all other future "Pureview" camera phones.
Luckily none of them was ever shipped with 8BG storage. 32GB or 16GB+MicroSD (up to 128GB)
And (almost?) all Lumia phones have manual control for shutter speed, aperture, focus, iso... from even earlier.
Thanks you for disappointing me!
That's why I don't have an iPhone. Most users want to "keep it simple" and Apple makes their dreams come true. Maybe these consumers would be better served with a Nokia 3310. It's simple as hell.