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Five of the Best Camera Apps on iOS

What I like about Camera+2 is that you take the photo by releasing your finger from the 'shutter release' button, rather than poking the button, which can cause shake and blur. And it seems too easy to take bursts with the stock camera.
 
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fumi2014 said:
Halide will only do RAW + JPEG.
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I didn't say it shoots RAW+HEIC. I said it shoots HEIC which it does. And yes, you have to disable RAW to get HEIC.

The apps I've looked at that shoot RAW will only shoot RAW+JPEG. Is there an app that has figured out how to do RAW+HEIC? Or is it, as the Halide developers indicate, an Apple/hardware limitation?
 
I literally have all of these, and their paid unlocks. :D

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Moment

Moment, like Focos, is a free download but requires a $4.99 purchase to unlock Pro tools. Moment offers tools for manually adjusting exposure, ISO, shutter speed, focus, white balance, and image format, which lets you customize the look of your photos beyond what you can do with the stock Camera app.

RAW shooting is supported, as are HEIF and HEVC, Apple's newest photo and video formats. Moment offers an Anamorphic lens for shooting letterbox style photos and videos, and there's a live histogram for perfecting exposure. You can choose between different lenses and you can get super wide angle shots when capturing video.

You have to pay for manual controls and advanced video tools, but it's worth the $4.99 if you want full control over how your iPhone photos turn out.
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This is is a little bit of a disservice to Moment; in reality they offer a full suite of lenses, cases, filters, gimbals, and other gear and most importantly, their app has settings designed specifically for their lenses to account for any distortions that the lenses may cause. For example, the app desqueezes the photos and videos when you use their anamorphic. Oh, and it shoots video, too.
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ttre45 said:
I didn't say it shoots RAW+HEIC. I said it shoots HEIC which it does. And yes, you have to disable RAW to get HEIC.

The apps I've looked at that shoot RAW will only shoot RAW+JPEG. Is there an app that has figured out how to do RAW+HEIC? Or is it, as the Halide developers indicate, an Apple/hardware limitation?
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It might be a standards limitation. RAW + JPG includes the .jpg in the RAW file's 'bucket' so to speak, so that when you view in the album, it loads the processed JPG rather than the RAW file.
 
jennyp said:
What I like about Camera+2 is that you take the photo by releasing your finger from the 'shutter release' button, rather than poking the button, which can cause shake and blur. And it seems too easy to take bursts with the stock camera.
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Yes, as used to be true for the default app. You can do the slide-release on many (all?) the other camera apps.
 
I tried Procam 6 but I can hardly get a sharp image with it. Apple's camera gives me much better results despite using a slower shutter speed and a lower ISO.
 
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Would also be nice to add what soft people use to edit pictures on the go. I always stick to SnapSeed it´s quick and easy to use and the results are really good if you stay light on filters. But there must be other pretty good apps out there
 
jhwalker said:
Hydra - uses multiple captures to enhance detail, reduce noise, etc. Great use of computational photography.
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I bought Hydra one or two months ago. Was a bit disappointed. Computational photography can do great things. But the enhanced zoom in Hydra was broken for me, produced ugly dithered pictures with no extra detail. Standard high-res pictures looked no sharper than stock camera, only bigger and slightly blurry. Might be due to me using an iPhone XR, which they maybe did not test on? I returned the app and got full refund from Apple. Might try it out again if they improve their quality.
 
I've tried Halide, ProCam, Camera+ and a few others over the last few years. Pro Camera v12 is still better for my use. I would also like to make it the default app, but it's just one more swipe to get to it, so not a problem.

Polarr and Snapseed for external edits. Both great apps.
 
The "Default Camera" thing is interesting. I never seriously considered using a 3rd-party camera app. Mostly because I never had a phone-camera worth doing that.
But now that the options are there, I can see the point of this.
iOS13 maybe?

I'm generally not a big fan of being able to change default options for anything (a la Android) - because the potential for confusing users and outright abuse is so large. But in this case, there may be merit to be able to do just that.

I'm sure all the developers of these apps have been asking Apple for this for years. So like all things, it will come. At some point.
 
timidpimpin said:
If you want to up your camera game... don't use any phone. Use a real camera.
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Totally agree. They ARE getting closer, though. Been toying with the idea of trying out the dark side with one of the new Android releases. Add Apple becoming more of a services company and the chip news of the last 48 hours and the case becomes stronger.

BGPL said:
No Camera+ 2? Am I using a total box of dump app or what?
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THAT'S what I was wondering! And I'm still using the Legacy app!

ajf.350d said:
No, my No1 app as well since I found it.
Primarily as it’s macro feature seems to give better results than all the others I have tried.
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Crowbot said:
No, Camera+ 2 is my favorite. I like the Lightbox feature so I can go through my photos before sending them to the Photos app.
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Agree. In the beginning, thought it would cramp my style with another step in the workflow, but in the end, it keeps things cleaner.

jennyp said:
What I like about Camera+2 is that you take the photo by releasing your finger from the 'shutter release' button, rather than poking the button, which can cause shake and blur. And it seems too easy to take bursts with the stock camera.
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Completely forgot about this feature. Appreciate the reminder! ;)



To all who are using Camera+ 2, aside from the rebuilt code and the better integration with Photos, are there any further benefits you've noticed? IIRC, when it was first released, most reviewers had recommended not taking the plunge for some additional reason that I cannot remember now.
 
I don't really have a need for 3rd party apps these days. The stock one is great now plus it's much faster to access.
 
Have a look at Raw Power. A former Aperture developer has published this app. It is very good and very familiar.
 
steve123 said:
Have a look at Raw Power. A former Aperture developer has published this app. It is very good and very familiar.
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I heard about this for the first time about two days ago. I’m away on vacation without my Mac (only have a mini) but am really looking forward to trying this when we get home.
 
luxborealis said:
Can’t say enough about Lightroom Mobile. Clean interface, zebra highlights in Pro (DNG raw) mode, easy exposure compensation PLUS HDR-RAW saved to DNG - excellent quality! Porting to Lightroom Desktop is one file at a time for the free version, but it’s still the BEST raw available for iOS and it’s without the gimmicky ‘let’s look like everyone else’ filters.
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Yeah, I just switched from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom CC and I'm loving it. Apple Photos is OK for what it is, but there's just so much more you can do with Lightroom. I'm rarely happy with the look I get out of RAW in Photos, but in LR I can get exactly what I want.

And the camera app in LR Mobile is good, really nice having it go right into the LR library. Although iPhone DNGs will never be as good as a larger camera, you really can do a lot more editing with them than the Apple JPG/HEIC, particularly pulling blown highlights back.
 
The major gripe I have with the built in Camera app is that the default "auto exposure" tends to over expose things making me often bring it down a bit manually, which isn't very convenient. Is that something other apps can help with by using a lower default exposure setting?
 
Are there any camera apps better suited for low light conditions? Anything similar to Google's HDR+ or Night Sight?
 
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