Zoom in option
I will give 5 stars but the app could be better as the filmic pro video app. One thing that I think is important is the ability to do zoom in and out on the camera. Where is that option?
Unbelievably bad compared to FilmicPro
I had high expectations after falling in love with Filmic Pro. They were massively disappointed. This is a terrible app by any standard, and certainly for the company that has designed the app that is gold standard in videography. The executive that gave this project the greenlight should be fired. This dramatically undermines the brand in my opinion. Now I cannot trust whether or not a product that comes from Filmic will be good.
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Be warned, last IOS update 15 really screwed this app up
Now locked into portrait mode, but image is rotated 90 to the right. View during picture taking is jerky and sluggish. I don’t think this is the fault of this developer, it is happening in another photo app from another developer too, almost the exact same problems. This on an iPad Mini 5, updated to IOS 15. Wouldn’t you think Apple would test their updates on their popular and pay for photo apps before they release them?
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DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY
This app is crap. It only gives you a few options nothing special. I have better control over the camera with my phone without the app. It only gives you 3 choices for Iso AE , 200 or 1500 nothing more and no control over shutter speed. Only gives you control of exposure thats all. Super disappointed I wasted my money. I rather use the phone camera than the app. Wish I can get my money back
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Great, but missing bulb mode.
The app seems great so far, offers a lot of features for manual shooting. But shutter onky goes to 1/1. It needs more options for long exposure photography.
Good app but HDR doesn’t stay off
I have no problem with this app besides the fact that HDR keeps getting switched on every time I launch the app and I have to switch it off manually.
Useless for a paid app
It supposed more of a professional camera. I am afraid it’s far from it. You put Some very good feature in it but far from fine tuned. For one why do put these extra features in and you have reset all the settings them every time when you restart the app. The setting should be the same as when you shut the app down. You wast time every time you start it up resetting your settings. If it was anywhere near a professional app you would not have to do this.
Now for someone like myself that travels a lot and likes my location saved. Why does this app not save gps to raw format? It’s save it in jpeg. I am afraid this app needs a lot work to be done it considering it a paid app.
Now for someone like myself that travels a lot and likes my location saved. Why does this app not save gps to raw format? It’s save it in jpeg. I am afraid this app needs a lot work to be done it considering it a paid app.
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5 Stars If ProRAW Worked
Contrary to some You Tube reviews I took the plunge and purchased the app. For my needs it works great unless I want to shoot In the Pro RAW mode. Then it combines a lower quality JPG with the DNG such that I cannot revert to only the DNG and thus DNG editors such as RAWPower that I use do not recognize the combined files as RAW so I cannot do RAW editing-a real bummer. Please fix this.
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Doesn’t support “selected photos” privacy feature
Apple introduced a feature where you could allow an app to just have access to a selected set of photos and not the entire photo library. Firstlight is one of the many apps that still requires access to the entire photo library. I value my privacy and don’t want to give access to the entire photo library, which means Firstlight doesn’t work at all.
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A UI designed for photographers.
Update: Great to see a new update for the app, but sad there still isn’t support for persisting the image type (japes/RAW etc) across uses
This app is fantastic for landscape photography. Its developer realised that for snaps you can’t better the built in camera app, but for when you want manual controls (eg setting ISO to minimise noise and maximise dynamic range) this app puts you straight in that mode.
The cross swipe for exposure and focus means I am straight into adjusting those without studying buttons, menus and making precise swipes.
Direct access to exposure and focus changes is made even better with the zebras and peaking complementing these two features.
There are two fiddly bits that get annoying - as I have to reset them every time I launch the app:
1) The app doesn’t persist the file type for each lens. I want to always be shooting RAW on wide and tele, but I have to reset every time.
2) Setting the ISO to lowest every time is a pain. In an ideal world I would love each lens to remember I left it on ISO priority and which value. As a pragmatic solution, I wish it didn’t loop from lowest to highest ISO - as this means I can’t just spin to the lowest and know it will stop at that value, it just goes round and round.
Overall a great app with fantastic user interface that isn’t over burdening with annoying feature creep. Though a level would be a wonderful addition :-)
This app is fantastic for landscape photography. Its developer realised that for snaps you can’t better the built in camera app, but for when you want manual controls (eg setting ISO to minimise noise and maximise dynamic range) this app puts you straight in that mode.
The cross swipe for exposure and focus means I am straight into adjusting those without studying buttons, menus and making precise swipes.
Direct access to exposure and focus changes is made even better with the zebras and peaking complementing these two features.
There are two fiddly bits that get annoying - as I have to reset them every time I launch the app:
1) The app doesn’t persist the file type for each lens. I want to always be shooting RAW on wide and tele, but I have to reset every time.
2) Setting the ISO to lowest every time is a pain. In an ideal world I would love each lens to remember I left it on ISO priority and which value. As a pragmatic solution, I wish it didn’t loop from lowest to highest ISO - as this means I can’t just spin to the lowest and know it will stop at that value, it just goes round and round.
Overall a great app with fantastic user interface that isn’t over burdening with annoying feature creep. Though a level would be a wonderful addition :-)
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