Camera M - Pro Manual Camera 4+
Powerful Pro Controls
bxb
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- £7.99
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Description
Featured numerous times on the US App Store since 2017:
‣ Best Camera Apps
‣ Apps We Love
‣ For Photo Pros
‣ Made for Professionals
‣ And many more...
Camera M is a professional and modern camera designed to do one thing exceptionally well — to help you capture beautiful photos in the highest possible quality with powerful and precise manual camera controls akin to a DSLR.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Fluid gesture-based native manual controls with 'Fine-Tuning' feature
• iOS 17 optimization with zero shutter lag capture
• Minimum focus distance display for macro photography
• Intelligent Focus Tracking
• Focus Peaking and 4x magnifier loupe with panning function
• Live RGB and RGB luminance histograms
• Manual gray card calibration
• Max Image Processing to ensure the absolute best image quality
• ProRAW*, RAW*, HEIF*, JPEG, TIFF, and PNG image formats
• Single, Burst, Timer, Live*, Depth*, Dual Photo*, and Bracket shooting modes
• Triple Photo mode with simultaneous ultra-wide, wide-angle, and telephoto camera capture*
• Darkroom integration
• Great widgets for photography
• App Shortcuts
CAMERA CONTROLS
– Manual focus control
– Macro and Scene focus presets
– Exposure bias control
– Manual ISO & exposure duration adjustments
– ISO & exposure duration semi-priority modes
– Manual white balance temperature and tint control
– White balance presets
– Gray card white balance calibration
– Auto, on, and off flash modes
– Manual torch brightness level control
– Manual switching between Ultra Wide, Wide, and Telephoto cameras*
– Digital pinch zoom with 10x range
IMAGE FORMATS
– Apple ProRAW*
– RAW with stabilization*
– HEIF with optional minimum compression*
– JPEG with optional minimum compression
– TIFF
– PNG
– Live Photo*
– P3 wide color support*
SHOOTING MODES
– Single
– Burst
– Timer
– Depth*
– Dual/Triple Photo*
– Live Photo*
– Bracket
TOOLS
– Exposure offset gauge
– Intelligent Focus Tracking
– Live focus peaking assistant
– 4x magnifier loupe with panning function
– Minimum focus distance display
– Live RGB and RGB luminance histograms
– Highlight & shadow alert display
– Horizon level with available pitch tracking and flat options
– Rule of Thirds, Golden Ratio, Quadrant, and Square grids
– Siri Shortcuts and App Shortcuts
– Detailed camera specifications display with PDF export
MAX IMAGE PROCESSING
– Deep Fusion and Smart HDR support for iPhone 11 and later.
– Ensures maximum image quality with better noise reduction, image stabilization, and additional processing for all other iPhones and iPads
CAMERA ROLL
– Summarized and full EXIF metadata display
– Location data display with compass and elevation
– RGB and RGB luminance histogram displays
– Access to all photo albums and folders
WIDGETS
– Home Screen: Golden Hour, EXIF, and Cameras
– Lock Screen: Cameras and Golden Hour
APPLE WATCH SUPPORT
– Shutter button control
– Sunrise, sunset, and Golden Hour display with sun position indicator
ERGONOMICS
– True one-handed control on all iPhones
– An uncompromising approach to user experience in landscape orientation
– Cursor and keyboard shortcut support for iPad*
ACCESSIBILITY
– Dynamic Type and Bold Text support
– Increase Contrast support
– Light Mode support for Exif Viewer, Camera Roll, and Settings
TECHNOLOGY
Camera M is powered exclusively by native APIs and frameworks. There are absolutely no dependencies on any outside sources. This makes Camera M responsive and efficient — from its small download size down to its quick app launch times.
We hope you enjoy taking amazing photos with Camera M!
Website: www.camera-m.com
User manual: www.camera-m.com/manual
Get in touch: contact@camera-m.com
Follow us: @CameraMApp
#CameraM
* These features are available on supported devices only.
* Depth capture requires iPhone X, or later.
* Depth capture for selfies requires an iPhone or an iPad with a TrueDepth camera system.
* RAW capture requires iPhone 6s or later, iPad 6th generation, or iPad Pro 9.7-inch or later.
* Apple ProRAW capture requires iPhone 12 Pro or later.
* For more information on device and feature compatibility: www.camera-m.com/compatibility
What’s New
Version 7.3.1
• Haptic Touch EXIF Preview (NEW)
So you just captured a shot, but you want to quickly double-check on the basic settings? Now you can when you Haptic Touch on the last photo button. You get a preview of the shot as usual, but now you get a strip at the bottom with the basic EXIF metadata information. This contains — focal length, aperture, ISO, exposure duration, and most importantly, the image format.
You can simply use Haptic Touch to preview this information and touch-up to make it go away. Also, this new EXIF strip fades away and gets out of the way after a few seconds.
This is also possible from the Camera M photo library grid screen with any photo or video. Please remember that this is just a summary, for a full representation of EXIF metadata, you can always open the photo and view our full representation of EXIF at any time.
Of course, with every new update or implementation of a function on Camera M, accessibility is a huge focus for us. So this new EXIF metadata strip is compatible with Dark and Light modes, Dynamic Type, Reduce Transparency and other accessibility settings on your device.
These small quality-of-life type of improvements are the implementations we are very proud of working on. We would love to hear your thoughts.
• Depth Blur Preview
We took out the depth blur preview a few years ago due to performance issues — now it is back! We worked on it to make it better, and to use less energy. You will see the ‘Depth Preview’ setting is back to opt-out from this function if needed.
• Bug Fixes
Fixed the issue where volume button actions would not work in certain landscape orientations. Made performance improvements to the Highlight & Shadow Alert filter and Focus Peaking filter.
Please check www.camera-m.com/updates for more comprehensive details on this update.
We are truly a small, two-person, developer team without a huge advertising budget; Therefore, if you love Camera M, please free to spread the word and it would mean a lot to us!
We hope you capture incredible photos with Camera M!
More information: www.camera-m.com
User manual: www.camera-m.com/manual
Get in touch: contact@camera-m.com
Follow us: @CameraMApp
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Our Previous Version 7 updates Include:
• iOS 17 optimization
• iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro support
• Action Button camera switching
• Volume button actions
• Redesigned manual controls with 'Fine-Tuning' feature
• New camera picker
• Zero shutter lag with responsive capture
• HDR Photo Viewing
• Widget for StandBy and NightMode
• App Shortcuts
• Accessibility feature updates
• And more...
Ratings and Reviews
Edge buttons unresponsive
Not sure what happens, but after a while leftmost and rightmost buttons on the settings strip right below the viewfinder become completely unresponsive until the app is reloaded. Otherwise would be the most intuitive and friendly middle ground between very complicated and very simple manual apps.
But while I can live with unresponsive histo button, unresponsive reset to auto is kind of a deal-breaker.
Developer Response ,
Thank you, nezlobnyj, for your review. We are sorry to hear about your issue. Since this is the first time we are hearing about this, please consider emailing us with some more details. This way we can have an update with the first as soon as possible - contact@camera-m.com
Beautiful app but not for single handed use in manual mode
Hey Team,
I had a good time exploring the app. Things seem to be arranged in good places, and the UI makes general sense. I also appreciate that you have opted for the single-purchase business model. The widget thing is a great idea as it means i can start up your app from the lockscreen, straight into the lens I would like to use. However, the app is missing two key elements which I wish it had, and so keeps me from making it be my go-to app.
- The first: true single handed operation in landscape mode whilst in full manual. I like to hold my 12pro like I hold my A7 - left hand for support, right hand to control the camera. This is really good for stability. However when doing so, adjusting either the iso or the shutter speed is quite a stretch as the shutter slider is on the viewfinder, way off the “control center”. Forget about adjusting ISO, that’s way on the other side of the screen. There is so much wasted space on that control center, would it not be possible to make better use of that? I can think of a million ways it can be done better.
- The second: why can’t i shoot photos with exposures longer than one second? I know avfoundation doesn’t support that, but this is what night mode is for.
- a fellow app developer.
Developer Response ,
R kopiec, thank you for your insightful review!
You bring up a good point regarding ISO and Exposure Duration Screen. Controlling ISO and exposure duration manually with both hands indeed creates a much better experience. However, you still can control both aspects single-handedly. The touch/drag area for each is only separated in the middle of the screen. Even with a Plus/Max phone, it is still comfortably possible. We keep the control center as a common area while each manual control aspect appears on the preview screen so they can disappear when not needed.
Regarding long exposure, the amazing Night Mode from the native camera app is not available for developers (yet). Any exposure longer than 1 second requires the fusion of multiple frames, which reduces the image quality greatly. We are currently testing on that area to put out something new and improved compared to other camera apps.
It’s okay. A number of issues.
I don’t like the way it handles burst mode. When I use the Apple iOS stock camera app and take burst photos they show up as one photo containing many. I can press “select” in the iOS camera album and select only the ones I want to keep. I cannot do that on this app. It saves every burst picture as a separate photo. So It’s very cumbersome. And it struggles to focus in poor light, where the Apple stock photo app easily focuses. I’m not sure why this is. I’m thinking of getting a refund because to me it’s not worth £7.99. A shame. I love the layout, but unless these things are ironed out then it’s not for me.
Developer Response ,
Hello AndyDurham10, thank you for your review. We are sorry to hear about your experience with the Burst mode. Unfortunately, as 3rd party developers, we do not have access to save the burst photos into a pile as the native camera app does. As for focusing, Camera M uses the same focusing mechanism as the native camera app. Do you notice auto-focus issues during manual exposure? If so, please note that, during long exposure durations (slow shutter speeds), camera feed slows down. This may cause focusing to be slower. You would not notice this in the native camera app due to not having a manual exposure mode with long exposure durations. Please feel free to contact us with more feedback - contact@camera-m.com. If you believe Camera-M is not for you, you definitely have the ability to ask for a full refund from Apple. Please let us know if you need assistance with that as well.
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Information
- Provider
- bxb, LLC
- Size
- 31.2 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 4.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © bxb, LLC
- Price
- £7.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.