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Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by sandofsky »

shrew wrote: post #88
z5h wrote: post #26

As a long time amateur photographer (using physical cameras and lenses), I have Halide (by the same company) on my iOS home screen for when I need to take a real phono on my iPhone. I use it all the time without issue. And would recommend it to any photographer. So I paid for Kino without hesitation. Just fired it up, set BNW grade, pressed record, and it immediately crashed. Tried again and it crashed again. Tried A…

Same phone and same OS version down to the patch number. I’ve noticed UI hangs and stutter when changing the grades, and BNW in particular seems to cause the biggest issues. Not yet experienced a crash even if I flick between grades in quick succession. I did also find manual focus produced odd green visual artefacts in the live view as you move the focus control. With that said, it’s a nice UI, hopefully the bugs ca…

The green is focus peaking. In a future update, we plan to make that opt-in in the UI.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by klysm »

atan2 wrote: post #47

"one simple principle: make good products and charge money for them." Thank you for the one-time purchase option. It's a win already on today's software world.

It’s so much harder to sustain the business though. Obviously it’s better for the consumer, but way harder to run

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by kernal »

zer0zzz wrote: post #31
pavel_lishin wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why?

That lux camera company is a very Apple heavy shop and they seem to only make apps that cost 10-20 dollars plus. Why would they waste time on android when a large corpus of their skills and codebase are already probably in ObjC and Swift programmed against many of Apple's iOS frameworks? To sell a $20 camera app to android users who are pretty much guaranteed to not buy it? Total waste of time to bring software like…

Annual Google Play 2023 revenue: $45.63 billion USD.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by vorprokuror »

Hi, I’ve just bought the app, congratulations on your release! Wishing for real time de-squeeze for anamorphic lenses users. And one more thing. If there’s any way to make it compatible with various gimbals and I mean like actually compatible with zoom/focus controls etc, it’d be a killer feature.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by artimaeis »

dagmx wrote: post #53
sandofsky wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On copyright, we go out of our way to generate original graphics for our posts, but if we do use an excerpt of other people’s content, we keep it brief and link back to source for the full details. Are you referring to the shots from the Matrix and Blade Runner? In this case, I think we’re commenting on the source material, which falls under fair use. I think the imagery is iconic enough that it feels a bit silly to…

The matrix, blade runner and the Nicolas cage shot that I can’t identify personally. I think it would still be reasonable to have attribution and/or also say that the projects in question weren’t shot with Kino. Of course it’s obvious that the Matrix isn’t shot with Kino , but I think it’s still good form to caveat that it’s there for illustrative purposes.

You're not asking, but in case anyone is curious - the Nicolas Cage shot is from Con Air.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by dagmx »

artimaeis wrote: post #105
dagmx wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The matrix, blade runner and the Nicolas cage shot that I can’t identify personally. I think it would still be reasonable to have attribution and/or also say that the projects in question weren’t shot with Kino. Of course it’s obvious that the Matrix isn’t shot with Kino , but I think it’s still good form to caveat that it’s there for illustrative purposes.

You're not asking, but in case anyone is curious - the Nicolas Cage shot is from Con Air.

Ah, thank you. I haven’t seen that film in a couple decades now.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by sunnybeetroot »

volleygman180 wrote: post #99
colechristensen wrote: post #77

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What happens is you run out of new people to sell your niche app to (or hit a long rather thin tail) while continuing to provide updates for your existing userbase. So you either have to release arbitrary new versions from time to time leaving the old ones neglected and eventually unsupported (or with the overhead of supporting several versions) or you switch to a subscription model. It's happened with so many busine…

Subscription fatigue is very real today, but to your point, as a business you can't provide eternal updates (work) for free. In the old days, you'd buy a new version of Mac or Windows or any software that you run on it (Office, Parallels, etc.) when you wanted the new features each year. I think Apple's App Store has a lot to do with why everything is now subscription-based. They used to offer developers a smaller Ap…

What do you mean used to take 15% commission, that has never stopped since the small business plan became available.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by zer0zzz »

kernal wrote: post #103
zer0zzz wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That lux camera company is a very Apple heavy shop and they seem to only make apps that cost 10-20 dollars plus. Why would they waste time on android when a large corpus of their skills and codebase are already probably in ObjC and Swift programmed against many of Apple's iOS frameworks? To sell a $20 camera app to android users who are pretty much guaranteed to not buy it? Total waste of time to bring software like…

Annual Google Play 2023 revenue: $45.63 billion USD.

Apple AppStore revenue at a cursory glance looks to be double that annually with a far smaller user base globally.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by baby »

atan2 wrote: post #47

"one simple principle: make good products and charge money for them." Thank you for the one-time purchase option. It's a win already on today's software world.

I just looked at two pomodoro apps on the app store, one had a one-time purchase fee, the other had a subscription only model. It's a freaking pomodoro app! I can't believe I have to pay for that in the first place (why doesn't the countdown app of Apple not have a widget =.=) but a subscription? People are greedy af.
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