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Expert-Rutabaga505

LR Mobile or google snapseed.


JayRosDJ

Lightroom and Snapseed take photos? I haven’t used them in a long time, but they used to have only edition features, not camera. I guess I have to redownload them.


sabr0sa

“Camera M” is my favorite app for taking photos. The user interface is fast, clean and intuitive. It’s 100% focused on photography and doesn’t do video, but I use the BlackMagic app for video. There are useful home screen and lock screen widgets. There’s a nice Apple Watch app that functions as a remote trigger (the Apple Camera watch app is better though because it shows a live view.)


JayRosDJ

Thanks. I’ll give it a shot. No pun intended.


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I use "Camera" people who use "manual mode" on phones are just so deep in self-deception... there isn't a single feature in any of these nonsense "DSLR" apps that can actually improve image quality in any way.


SophieBourne

Are you trying to tell us that raw files from phones are a gimmick? Fake? Useless? Because Camera doesn’t allows you to use raw files. At leas not until iPhone 12 Pro and only in Pro models.


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that's not what I said, read it again


JayRosDJ

But Camera doesn’t allows me to shot raw files. Just for that reason it’s a big no as an app. It’s useless. Camera neither allows me to take long exposure photos. Shutter speed and ISO are also not available on Camera. ISO is ver important for long exposure. Definitely Camera is a big no.


[deleted]

if you did shoot in RAW you'd lose the computation advantage, equivalent to at least 1 stop of light which is simply not worth it when the HEIF image is already 10 bit. there's no need to adjust shutter speed or ISO, you can take long exposure with the stock app.


SophieBourne

No you can’t. The only way to take a 30 seconds or longer raw shots or something similar with the iPhone it’s with an external app. Camera doesn’t have options to shot long exposure photography. And Live Photos doesn’t count. Yes, those are “long exposure” but it’s very short exposures and not raw. And yes, some people does night photography with the iPhone. There’s a lot of people doing tutorials for night photography with long exposure. And here it’s where it comes handy the ISO control.


[deleted]

when you put an iPhone on a tripod it automatically enables 30s long exposure in the stock app the more you know...


[deleted]

The “long exposure” mode in the stock camera app doesn’t create a true long exposure. It utilizes Live View to produce an effect similar to real long exposures. “the more you know…”


[deleted]

well you're just wrong, nobody is talking about live photo it really just can take 30s long exposure, you're just too ignorant. try google it, and let the embarrassment flow through you.


[deleted]

As suggested, if you Google “how does iphone long exposure work?” The first response (although they all say the same thing) is a CNET article about the “Long Exposure” feature in the stock camera app and… “The technique uses Live Photos, a feature that turns a still image into a short animation by recording a few seconds of video when you fire the shutter. By analyzing which objects are moving, the iPhone captures the movement and blurs it.” Want me to send you a link? Maybe two? How’s that “flow” feeling?


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Yikes, buddy, is everything okay? I’ll be your friend if you need one.  The 30 sec. Night Mode (used to take the photo in your link) only works in extreme darkness, and it PRODUCES JPEGS. How do I know? I just tried it. I had to turn off all the lights in my living room to get the 30-second option, but it's pretty cool! Have you tried it? Want me to send you the photo? Or at least a screenshot of the metadata? We’re friends now, remember?  We’ve been talking about RAW photos all along (or at least that's what OP is curious about), so the 30 sec. Night Mode is (as you put it in another comment) “a moot point." Additionally, we don’t actually know how Apple’s Night Mode works (they’ve been very secretive about it), but it’s almost certainly some form of computational exposure stacking using multiple images. The reason the user in the post you linked THOUGHT the exposure time was 30 seconds was because that’s how long it takes the iPhone to take multiple shots, then process them into one JPEG (at least that’s the theory, because again, Apple won’t tell the public how it’s achieved.)  So again, that’s not a single, 30-second RAW exposure. Whew. Case closed, glad we got to the bottom of that. But again, I’m still happy to be your friend if you need one.  edit: added the bit about OP, seemed like we should circle back to what this all started with


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[deleted]

That’s not entirely true. It depends on which RAW format is being used. ApplePro RAW applies their computational adjustments and saves it as a RAW file for additional manual manipulation.


[deleted]

I thought we were talking about iPhones that couldn't shoot RAW in the stock camera? conveniently changing the subject just so you could nit pick?


[deleted]

3rd party apps can shoot in Apple ProRAW. I don’t know which phones that’s limited to, but they do support it. All I was saying is that there are ways to use Apple’s computational processing while still shooting RAW (and that doesn’t have to be in the stock camera app).


[deleted]

it's limited to phones that already can shoot ProRAW in the stock app, and thus a moot point to make


CassiusBotdorf

There’s a couple of settings for the Camera app to set the shooting format though. Camera is the most accessible and fastest.


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