I use this app whenever I shoot film, and have logged almost 200 rolls with it since July 2021.
It does require some setting up — you have to add cameras and lenses to enable you to start logging rolls. But in the long run, this saves a lot of time.
Whether or not you find this app useful depends largely on how much you value “metadata” for your analogue shots. I’ve found it very handy for a number of things:
a) While shooting, the light meter acts as an additional tool to check my exposures. I don’t find it entirely predictable or reliable (which is true of every iPhone light meter I’ve tried), so I don’t rely on it, but it does give me a useful “second opinion”.
b) When I receive film from the lab, sorting it digitally and physically to match my filing system can be tedious, and having a quick digital reference for each shot on a roll lets me know what to rename the files I receive.
c) If I want to know what settings I’ve used for a given shot, I can easily go back in my logs to check, which lets me learn from my experience in a more quantifiable, tangible way.
Overall, logging my shots has helped me understand my equipment and lenses better, sped up my filing workflow, and added metadata to images that is normally not available when shooting film, including location.
There are certainly additional features and improvements I’d like to see, but the team behind the app are responsive and creative, and I have no doubt that there’s more to come from this great little tool that I use all the time. Thanks folks!
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