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If you're an iPhone user noticing noise in low-ISO, long-exposure photos, and/or wish you could crop the view to 16:9 before hitting the shutter, plus gently caress around with all sorts of settings that aren't available in the stock camera app, allow me to suggest 645Pro. Its gimmick is that it mimics the use of a film SLR. It's got: SLR-style Shutter and ISO priority modes, an auto mode with exposure stepping to +/- 3 in 1/3 stops, and a 'manual' mode with full ISO and shutter speed control. Live metering shows degree of over/underexposure on a line at the bottom. (If you're looking to reduce noise at slow shutter / low ISO, these features might help when combined with...) The option to save images as uncompressed TIFFs instead of JPEGs. (This option makes big 20+ MB files and using it a lot will drain your battery, but the improvement in image quality is noticeable.) (With iOS 8+) manual focus with digital zoom and focus peaking during adjustment. This is awesome for getting focus on a close subject that doesn't fill much of the frame - something that I've found the built-in AF often doesn't want to do. 8 different pre-cropped photo sizes, from 16:9 to 1:1. The viewfinder changes size and shape so you can compose within the dimensions shown. 12 or so different color and b&w 'film' styles, each emulating a specific real-world type, like Kodachrome 25 and Ektachrome 64. You can also create custom 'film' profiles. So all in all a great camera app for iPhone. If I could have only one 'enhanced camera' app, 645 would be it. (Of course, if anyone knows of something even better, I'd love to hear about it.)
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Regarding iPhone photography, what's the dorkroom think about VSCOCAM filters? Are they nostalgic and tasteful tools that complements the already good color balance of the iPhone, or are they the new HDR?
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Loving these. What city (or cities)? It's making me feel nostalgic.
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Got an iPhone 11. What are good apps for capturing DNGs or HEIFs and otherwise extending the uses of the camera? Is Halide worth it? 
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 It’s the first time in a while that I’ve had a ‘nice’ phone camera (iPhone 11). Still, as much as I’d seen on various websites about the amazing advances in computational photography, sensor technology, and multi-camera integration, I think my older iPhone camera images were about as good. Particularly, the way my old 6 handled auto WB and ‘HDR’ in the default camera app honestly looked a little better to me. The sky wasn’t as neon blue, and sunlight had an overall warmer tint. I guess now the main iPhone image sensor and pixel sizes have grown fractionally from 12MP 1/3” to 12MP 1/2.56”, and that coupled with strong OIS gives it a pretty cool night mode. I don’t see much of an improvement in normal lighting situations, though. Portrait mode has been pretty accurate, but the effect just looks weird even when the subject is perfectly ‘cut out’ from the blurry background. I’ve seen it handle some impressively complex subjects, but the lack of a realistic focus roll off just kind of hamstrings it as an actual replacement for a real fast lens. I also wonder what the advantage of two lenses is for portrait mode when one of the two is a 13mm equivalent with basically unlimited DoF. I guess it must be supplying some kind of depth sensing, but as a stand-alone camera unit the ultra wide gives up a lot of detail vs the standard wide module. But even if the output from the default app feels a little ‘off’ sometimes, I guess there are now lots of alternative apps for capturing and processing more RAW-like. Some of the Android cameras are getting insane specs like huge MP counts, optical zooms, 1/1.7” sensors, but still see lots of examples of crappy default image processing with many of those. Garish colors and oversharpening. I wonder what the over all best smartphone camera is right now.
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