Yamera (Manual Camera‪)‬ ٤+

I got this app so that I could have more control over my phone’s camera (manual focus, shutter speed, ISO, etc.) so that I could take images and videos of the planets (mostly) and other brighter objects in the sky with my smartphone. My telescope is a 6-inch reflector, not motorized, and so I just let the planets move across the screen, using the grid feature to guide/aline the camera, to get footage for stacking
The app gives you a huge amount of control over your camera, including focus, exposure, white-point, and several different combinations of framerate+quality (e.g. high quality at 60fps, which I use for getting more high-quality frames of planets).
Overall, this app is amazing for smartphone astrophotography, and the full version is very affordable.

My only suggestion/request is, I think it would be cool to have an optional point/crosshair in the center of the screen— just like the grid— as sort of a guidance point.

I wanted to take color-wise consistent pictures of products for a website/eBay. Nothing super professional, just a simple way of roughly controlling color temperature. This app is perfect. I don’t need to use any of the other manual features, still just point and shoot. But I made myself a grey card and I point the camera at it to lock in the color temperature every time I take product photos. And my colors have been coming out wonderfully, without the camera “compensating” based on an incorrect guess. I went ahead and paid the $1.99 for the pro version to remove ads, and voila! Perfect! Thanks for the great one-time price!

I do a significant amount of product photography and have been using Yamera for years- I loved being able to save presets and have instantaneously photostream uploads. I upgraded to an iPhone 13 today and now the exposure settings aren’t working correctly. If you try to customize the ISO or shutter, it will look fine when you’re taking the photos, but I’m the photostream they come out looking very strange and unusable- there’s randomly really bright white in places of the photo. It looks like someone took a digital paint brush of bright white and splattered, circled and some irregular shapes. If you lower the ISO and shutter low enough that this doesn’t happen, then the photo looks dingy and is not well lit. Also the white balance settings don’t appear to be working correctly either.

This app is no longer usable to me and I’m pretty devastated about it- I spent hours editing and adjusting my presets to get them perfect and now I have to start over with a different app

Btw I tried to report a problem or the app support links but neither were secure links. So I guess a review is my only option.