Manual exposure control with iPhone?

[amolitor]

My work is posted here, and all over the place, if you bothered to lift one finger to look. I am many things, but google-proof is not one of them. What on EARTH does my work have to do with anything, though? Yes yes, I know there are plenty of people who hate me. I was worried this thread would turn into an apple bashing thread, and now you want to make it about ME?

While I am flattered, I decline to play.

 

[nikT2i]

My coffee maker has a small clock on it, but I don't rely on it to tell the time or be my alarm clock. It's a phone with some smart features. A camera being a limited little side light, not a main feature. If you want to take pictures like you described get a camera. Buying a camera: everything you need to know | The Verge

I completely agree. Phones with cameras are designed so that they are handy, on-the-go, options for users who don't always have their cameras readily available to snap a halfway decent picture of something. While I wish my iPhone DID have the capability to determine appropriate manual exposure, I wouldn't spend too much time searching for an app that can do this.

 

[Mully]

Have you explored this http://www.ononesoftware.com/products/dslr-camera-remote/...not sure if it could work for you but worth a look.

 

[nycphotography]

Now this a a very uneducated comment.... learn before you speak

Of course. I ain't never seen a pooter befer. How dey werk?

 

[Derrel]

Whenever there's ANY type of a problem with an Apple product or software application, the Pee-Cee lovers always come out in droves and start their furious web-based, Win-Doze-and-the-Pee Cee-is-best-mental-masturbation rituals...

Predictable. Funny. And also "Eeeewwwwww, so gross!!!" It never,ever fails...

They cannot seem to try and help anybody actually SOLVE a problem with an APple product or software issue, but instead start waving their PC woodies around, talking chit, loudly...

 

[jake337]

I just downloaded "proshot" for my HTC Windows phone 8x and it allows you to change shutter speed from 1/2 to 1/8000 and iso from 100 to 3200. Has manual WB override, manual focus override, and three modes; Auto, Program, Shutter and custom. It also has options for a level, histogram and grid lines on screen.


Now I'm not sure if it actually changing shutter speed or not, or if it is using some software trickery.

I do have a question though???

Shouldn't the usable shutter speed be roughly 2 times the focal length? I'm pretty sure to get 28mm FF equivalent FOV in this small of a sensor the actual focal length of these cell phone cams should be extremely wide like 7mm or something? So 1/15 should technically be able to give you sharp images right? I think ergonomics that allow so much camera shake is the problem here.

But this doesn't take into account taking snaps of children though. Much higher shutterspeed needed for sure.

 

[amolitor]

Whenever there's ANY type of a problem with an Apple product or software application, the Pee-Cee lovers always come out in droves and start their furious web-based, Win-Doze-and-the-Pee Cee-is-best-mental-masturbation rituals...

You're not talking about ME here, are you? Cuz Windows is actually bad. Apple suffers from a design philosophy that suits me poorly, Windows is just terrible.

 

[manaheim]

Whenever there's ANY type of a problem with an Apple product or software application, the Pee-Cee lovers always come out in droves and start their furious web-based, Win-Doze-and-the-Pee Cee-is-best-mental-masturbation rituals...

Predictable. Funny. And also "Eeeewwwwww, so gross!!!" It never,ever fails...

They cannot seem to try and help anybody actually SOLVE a problem with an APple product or software issue, but instead start waving their PC woodies around, talking chit, loudly...

Apple products are BRILLIANTLY designed for people who want way less of a complex device that they can get themselves into trouble with and way more of an appliance.

That is neither a bad nor a good thing, it is merely a matter of choosing what you need and what you want.

I find Apple products absolutely infuriating... yet I have an iPhone, an iPad, and we have two iPods floating around the house. The ONLY reason we didn't buy two more iPads this Christmas for the girls is that they are STUPIDLY expensive... else we'd have two more.

I'd pretty much rather rip my own arms off with my teeth than use an Apple product as a desktop or, god forbid, a serious non-phone camera.

There you have it.

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Apple products are BRILLIANTLY designed for people who want way less of a complex device that they can get themselves into trouble with and way more of an appliance.

That is neither a bad nor a good thing, it is merely a matter of choosing what you need and what you want.

I find Apple products absolutely infuriating... yet I have an iPhone, an iPad, and we have two iPods floating around the house. The ONLY reason we didn't buy two more iPads this Christmas for the girls is that they are STUPIDLY expensive... else we'd have two more.

I'd pretty much rather rip my own arms off with my teeth than use an Apple product as a desktop or, god forbid, a serious non-phone camera.

There you have it.

Haha, that gave me a good chuckle. Had to laugh because I too have iPad, iPhones and two iPods floating around the house and NEVER intend to get a Mac/apple operating system. I worked at an Apple store for a couple years, and have used windows all my life, so I have a somewhat unique perspective in that regard.

 

[manaheim]

Apple products are BRILLIANTLY designed for people who want way less of a complex device that they can get themselves into trouble with and way more of an appliance.

That is neither a bad nor a good thing, it is merely a matter of choosing what you need and what you want.

I find Apple products absolutely infuriating... yet I have an iPhone, an iPad, and we have two iPods floating around the house. The ONLY reason we didn't buy two more iPads this Christmas for the girls is that they are STUPIDLY expensive... else we'd have two more.

I'd pretty much rather rip my own arms off with my teeth than use an Apple product as a desktop or, god forbid, a serious non-phone camera.

There you have it.

Haha, that gave me a good chuckle. Had to laugh because I too have iPad, iPhones and two iPods floating around the house and NEVER intend to get a Mac/apple operating system. I worked at an Apple store for a couple years, and have used windows all my life, so I have a somewhat unique perspective in that regard.

heheh...

To be fair, my FAVORITE personal computer of ALL TIME...was an Apple product.

 

[o hey tyler]

Hath thou considereth jailbreaking thine iPhone?

 

[thetrue]

Hath thou considereth jailbreaking thine iPhone?

That's a good option, as long as you don't plan on using any warranty.

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Hath thou considereth jailbreaking thine iPhone?

Thou hasn't !! Maybe after the first year of owning the phone when the warranty is up

 

[manaheim]

Warranties are for pansies.

 

[amolitor]

"Warranty" is actually derived from the Latin Warrantus which means "of weaklings" or "for weaklings" and later evolved into a word for lady's undergarments in Pompei.