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It's Bayer RAW: not yet demosaicked sensor information from a single exposure, without any of the extra steps you get shooting a format like HEIC/JPEG (or even ProRAW [0]), where l…

> The ultrawide lens is not one I used a ton on previous iPhones, so outside of macro mode I don’t really miss it. I’m surprised though that I really miss the telephoto lens. There…

Yes, that makes sense to me. Black and white film is a very flexible medium - you can make very different prints from the same negative, it has lots of latitude to play with the co…

> I now have a small library of simulated materials: watercolor washes, dry brush strokes, felt-tip pens, cracked glaze, pencil fills. None of them are physically accurate. I’m not…

You absolutely can: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1156653713048409... (taken with BayerCam.app, not Halide, but Halide can capture the same raw Bayer data) It's not a…

I always found this UI pattern a bit odd, because there just aren't that many situations where you want to compare the left side of image A and the right side of image B. I see it …

Done, cheers for the heads up.

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1158908195095453...

Here is the same post on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/1158908195095453... I publish all my posts on Threads/X/Bluesky/Mastodon because I have to meet my cu…

Oh hi everyone! So funny to see how my quippy little tweet blew up the last few days on all the platforms (much more than when I share actual things I make, to my great dismay - if…

Working on developing a suite of apps around photography, from cameras to editors and utilities. https://heliographe.studio The goal is lightweight, composable tools with clean int…

If you’ve gone all the way to shooting medium format and learning how to develop film, I can’t help but encourage you to get into printing black and white as well. (color is IMO le…

Cheers! Got an update coming out soon for that one, it's actually the one that makes the least money haha. I think it's way too nerdy and weird to ever hope to reach a broad audien…

> I'm quite aware that doing things my way isn't commercially viable Depends what you mean by “commercially viable”. I’ve been making high quality products as an independent softwa…

Yes! As a software developer in the photography space, we are deeply in need of projects like this. The photography world is mired in proprietary software/ formats, and locked down…

Yes, that matches my observations. I develop photography software and in early versions of iOS 18, sometimes saving a large image to the camera roll would fail because the daemon i…

Working on indie photography software (iOS/macOS for the time being): https://heliographe.studio My most recent release is a camera app dedicated to RAW photography, which focuses …

Yes, making money on iOS is an uphill climb, many times more so if you’re not playing the TikTok ads and subscription model. I’ve been making iOS software independently for almost …

It will capture the depth map and generate the semantic mattes (except in some edge cases) no matter the subject if you explicitly set the camera in Portrait mode, which is how I w…

> but apparently recent iPhones capture them for standard photos as well. Yes, they will capture them from the main photo mode if there’s a subject (human or pet) in the scene. > I…

Yes, those depth maps + semantic maps are pretty fun to look at - and if you load them into a program like TouchDesigner (or Blender or Cinema 4D whatever else you want) you can ma…

I just shipped a camera app for iPhone dedicated to Bayer RAW capture (that's the true, unprocessed sensor output of your device - not Apple's ProRAW which is already demosaic'd an…

I’ve been making photography software as an indie developer for a bit over a year now: https://heliographe.net A few released apps for now that are iOS/macOS, with some exciting mo…

I was skeptical too - friends encouraged me to post my latest project there, a panoramic camera app I made entirely for my own satisfaction (I certainly used none of the “growth ha…

Yes, it’s directly based on the trichromatic photographic process, which I learned about reading an article about Gorsky. And yeah, it’s super interesting how when a new recording …