Lighting Designer vs Black Camera

Never draw a lighting setup on a scrap of paper again. Lighting Designer is a quick and intuitive way to create overhead lighting plots for film, theater, television, concerts, and anything else you can light. The wide selection of equipment and simple yet powerful interface makes it easier than ever to illustrate and communicate your lighting setups, from most Apple devices. Your Silicon Mac is powerful and gives you the most screen to work with; your iPad is large and versatile; your iPhone will go with you anywhere. And if you like, your work can sync among all your Apple devices using iCloud, so you can start plotting on one and finish on another. LD is perfect for tech scouts, working while traveling, or just choosing the couch over your desk chair. While expensive drafting programs can take hours to use and years to master, Lighting Designer is an accessible way to plan your next show! Features: • Organize your setups into Shows, with details like shooting dates and crew members • Choose from over 2000 built-in types of lights, grip equipment, camera gear, actors, and objects like furniture and musical instruments • With a Crescit Premium account, you can have access to an additional 25,000+ pieces of lighting equipment, gels, and gobo templates • Use your own images to create custom fixtures on your Plots (read the User Guide for image specs) • For each light, specify wattage, beam spread, light output, DMX address, color, and many other details • Certain fixtures include info for exposure approximation; all can be user-configured and have their exposure reverse-calculated from real-world readings • Use Groups to create flexible collections of lights • Notes allow you to describe every detail of your setup • Pack your Truck to share gear among multiple Plots • Draw a Floor Plan using basic shapes, and images from your device • Lights can target other objects, and objects can rig onto each other for easy adjustments • Email editable Plots to the crew, with images, equipment, and crew lists • Undo/Redo functionality • Dark Mode presents a dark workspace to reduce eyestrain and minimize your device's light in a dark environment

Black Camera records video and takes photos without lighting up the room or drawing eyes to your phone. Tap record and the screen goes truly black: the display dims to its minimum and the viewfinder is covered, while the camera keeps recording in full quality. VERSION 2.0 IS A FRESH START The old Black Mode was not black enough, and you told us so. 2.0 was rebuilt from the ground up: a fully black screen, controls you can use without looking, and a clear signal that recording is running. MADE FOR • Concerts, theatre and comedy shows where a glowing phone bothers everyone • Night shooting, campfires and city lights • Lectures and talks you want to film without distracting the room • A sleeping baby or pet you do not want to wake • Any moment you would rather be present than stare at a screen HOW IT WORKS • Tap the round button, long-press anywhere, or press a volume button to start and stop • Double-tap anywhere to switch Black Mode on or off at any time • Pinch to zoom, even while the screen is black • Haptic taps confirm every action, so you never need to look YOU ALWAYS KNOW IT IS RECORDING Black Camera plays the system start and stop chimes and shows a small red dot for the whole recording, in Black Mode too. You can turn off the sounds or the dot, never both, and the iPhone camera indicator stays visible at all times. Recording only ever starts when you ask for it. PRIVATE GALLERY Keep your photos and videos inside the app instead of Photos, protected by Face ID or your passcode. Share them or copy them to Photos whenever you like. Or save straight to your Photos library. Your choice, in Settings. MORE • Front and back camera, flash and torch • High, medium and low quality • Optional location tagging, off by default • Works on iPhone and iPad PRIVACY Black Camera collects no data. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no third-party code. Nothing leaves your device. A NOTE ON "BLACK" iOS does not let any app switch the display off while recording. Black Camera dims the screen as far as iOS allows and covers the viewfinder with a pure black view. On OLED iPhones that means the pixels are off. On older LCD iPhones a faint backlight glow can remain in a completely dark room. Questions or ideas? We read every review and we reply.