The app works amazing! And I can get beautiful pictures of my coral. The one thing I wish it had was the ability to switch between different cameras on the new iPhone!
Not sure what happened, but when I click on the app it opens and closes immediately. I have the iPhone 11 and I even deleted the app and reinstalled it. Not much fun when you pay for an app and the only thing it does is crash. No way to contact the developer on their website that I could find.
Spectacular filters for all three of my tanks, but not quite as intuitive as I would like. Also the “auto” setting isn’t always the best to highlight some of the bright reds and oranges I’m trying to capture. Overall well worth the money.
Developer Response
Thanks for that feedback! It's been tough because the more I want to simplify the controls (the app used to have literally just 1 slider), the more edge cases in lighting people have that it is less effective. Maybe the solution is just more tutorials out there. Appreciate the download and if you have ideas definitely shoot them over via the website.App is good at color balance but some detail is lost and images are not as sharp compared to without the app. Improve detail and keep the original sharpness and this app would get 5 stars from me.
Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback! Definitely some of the newer phones have the processing power for even larger sharper images. I’m on it!At first I thought it was a waste of money until I really started playing with the app and comparing it with me regular photos. Great app!
It absolutely does work, you just need to fiddle with it. For me, red at 3.4, green at 1, blue at 3.9, and the automatic gel filter looks the best. It’s pretty spot on!
Those who say it doesn’t work just didn’t know what they’re doing. Trust me. Just fiddle around with it. Putting green above 1 never really does anything good. You usually want to have red and blue about the same level, but it depends on your spectrum of light. You don’t want to put blue at 1 and red at max to try to correct the intensity of blue in your photos. It doesn’t work like that, you need both red and blue. Make sure to use the gel filter also! It automatically adjusted to the best gel filter for me
So the camera app works as it’s supposed to. The only issue is it’s obviously not optimized to the latest camera apis as the pictures lose all sharpness and clarity. Also no way to chose between the cameras if on a multi camera phone. Needs an update.
Developer Response
Correct on the optimizations for most recent iPhone and iPhone plus models. It’s in the works. One thing that can help with sharpness is tap to focus as well as taking a look at your brightness settings. Those two things can contribute to sharpness issues. I’ll keep you posted in updates! The original reason for not supporting multi camera was that the amount of data being real time processed was crashing the app. From early testing the newer device processors seem to be ready to handle the additional processing load! 👍👍👍Everything I adjust gel it crashes, and honestly the pictures seem very washed out and not what I personally see when looking at the tank. I know this app works I’ve seen pictures people have gotten with it, but it was a waste for me, as my phone doesn’t seem to handle it well.
I’m not sure if it’s just me or the app doesn’t work but there is almost zero change in taking a picture through the app I still can’t see anything in my tank with this app beware before buying
I read some decent reviews about this app on one of the big reefing forums, and decided to give it a try since it had pretty decent reviews. Well it’s not so decent. It’s virtually impossible to get a decent picture using this app. I’d have just as much luck using the xr camera and then editing the photos with the normal iPhone picture editor. If was any more expensive I’d be less than pleased. I’ll be purchasing an actual lens for taking pictures of my tank for my phone in the future.
Developer Response
Sounds like a setting issue. Shoot me a note at info@seahostler.com and I’ll see if we can help get things on track.
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