Calotype vs EveryProCam

Calotype is a simple RAW camera for photographers who want a cleaner path from lens to file. Your iPhone already has a very capable camera. It also makes a lot of decisions before you ever see the photo. Calotype keeps things quieter. On supported back cameras, Calotype saves real RAW DNG files that you can take into the editor of your choice. No accounts, no cloud library, no extra processing layer. Manual controls are built around the camera you are actually using. Shutter speed follows the sensor’s real format limits, with ISO, focus, white balance, exposure offset, and focus peaking close at hand. You also get interval shooting for timelapses and hands-free captures, exposure bracketing for tricky light, and a simple in-app gallery for reviewing, sharing, and deleting recent shots. Calotype is made by a photographer, for the moments when you want the phone to feel a little more like a camera.

EveryProCam is a camera for people who want to make the call. The screen is as simple as any camera's; underneath there is real manual control, RAW and a Lab to edit your photos without ever touching the original. MANUAL CONTROL - Four modes: auto, shutter priority, ISO priority and manual. A photo at 1/250 comes out at 1/250. - Metering, exposure compensation, exposure and focus lock. - Autofocus or manual focus, with in-focus edges highlighted and a magnifier. - White balance in auto, in kelvin and tint, with eight presets, a grey card and an eyedropper. - Two dials always above the shutter button, picked by you. LENSES AND FORMATS - Every rear lens, the 28 and 35 mm crops, macro, the front camera. - Sensor RAW (DNG) and ProRAW, also paired with a JPEG or a HEIF, at 12 or 48 MP where your iPhone has them. - HEIF, JPEG, 8-bit and 16-bit TIFF; HDR photos. - Six framing formats, from square to 65:24 panoramic. LIVE ANALYSIS Histogram, waveform, zebras on blown highlights, in-focus edges, composition grids and a level, all on the viewfinder without slowing it down. SHOOTING - Burst, bracketing, self-timer, intervalometer, flash and torch. - Long exposure up to 30 seconds: silky water, light trails and night, with the photo building up on the viewfinder. - Thirteen shooting profiles (portrait, landscape, night, moon, architecture, food and more) plus your own. - Seven Looks for the colour of the photo, the same in the viewfinder and in the photo. - Watermark and date stamp, if you want them. THE LAB Open it from the photos you took and from the rest of your library too. Every edit is a recipe stored next to the photo in Photos: you can reopen it, change it, undo it, and it travels with iCloud Photos. "Revert" in Photos brings the photo back as it was. - From the RAW negative: three stops of exposure either way, white balance redone by the decoder, blown highlights that come back. - Framing, rotation, perspective, crop to a format. - Tone with a histogram, before and after with a slider. - Background blur on portraits with depth. - Export to HEIF, JPEG, TIFF or the DNG as it is, with the size, quality and metadata you choose. - RAW files from other cameras, opened from Files or Photos or shared from another app, AirDrop included. YOUR PHOTOS An EveryProCam album in Photos, a gallery with filters for RAW and favourites, bursts in stacks. If the app closes while a photo is saving, the photo reaches Photos on its own when you reopen it. WITH IPHONE The Camera Control where there is one, the Action button, Control Center, the Lock Screen, widgets, Siri and Shortcuts. TEN LESSONS If you are starting out: ten lessons, from the interface to manual shooting, each with an exercise in the real viewfinder. The app notices on its own when you have done it. PRIVACY No account, no ads, no network. Your photos stay on your iPhone and in Photos. Location in photos is off by default. iPhone only.