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Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by zer0zzz »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #19
zer0zzz wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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 this with this payment model to Android IMHO.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by sandofsky »

sneak wrote: post #25

Insta-buy as soon as I saw the “Data not collected” privacy label. Thanks for not bundling spyware like everyone does in apps these days. I’m happy to support anyone who isn’t spying on users. I don’t use Halide specifically because it does phone home (and is IAP subscriptionware cancer). Even though I shoot log and use Resolve, this might be fun for quick stuff without a round trip through the desktop computer.

Hope you enjoy Kino! To clear up a few things about Halide…

The only time Halide communicates with a server is when we do a controlled rollout of a feature, and anonymized reporting when a capture fails. I’d prefer we didn’t need either but 1) the App Store model doesn’t accommodate safe rollouts and 2) iPhone capture and photo library frameworks regularly break, and sometimes the only way to get a fix escalated is to have numbers in hand.

If you don’t want to subscribe to Halide, though, there is a one time purchase option in app.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by SamBam »

dylan604 wrote: post #20

"Now, it's not always possible for Kino to pick cinematic settings, such as when shooting in bright daylight." Since the phone's cameras are fixed aperture, you lose one leg of the exposure triangle. Instead, they lean heavily on the shutter speed as ISO is also a function of the chip. Increasing the shutter speed also increase the jello effect from the rolling shutter. Using an ND filter helps. If you find yourself…

> Bonus points if your sunglasses are polarized. You can rotate your sunglasses to "dial" in the effect similar to a circular polarizer.

Surely that would only affect polarized light, like glare from reflections, no?

Possibly that's all you're saying (I understand the general purpose of polarized lenses) but it sounded like you were suggesting you could make the whole scene darker -- and thus improve the motion blur effect -- by rotating the lens.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by sneak »

sandofsky wrote: post #32
sneak wrote: post #25

Insta-buy as soon as I saw the “Data not collected” privacy label. Thanks for not bundling spyware like everyone does in apps these days. I’m happy to support anyone who isn’t spying on users. I don’t use Halide specifically because it does phone home (and is IAP subscriptionware cancer). Even though I shoot log and use Resolve, this might be fun for quick stuff without a round trip through the desktop computer.

Hope you enjoy Kino! To clear up a few things about Halide… The only time Halide communicates with a server is when we do a controlled rollout of a feature, and anonymized reporting when a capture fails. I’d prefer we didn’t need either but 1) the App Store model doesn’t accommodate safe rollouts and 2) iPhone capture and photo library frameworks regularly break, and sometimes the only way to get a fix escalated is t…

The Halide one time purchase is $60, and I carry a full frame mirrorless (rx1) with me at all times. Also, while I understand your QA issue, I won’t spend money on apps that phone home against my will, on basis of principle.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by sandofsky »

lynndotpy wrote: post #29
sneak wrote: post #25

Insta-buy as soon as I saw the “Data not collected” privacy label. Thanks for not bundling spyware like everyone does in apps these days. I’m happy to support anyone who isn’t spying on users. I don’t use Halide specifically because it does phone home (and is IAP subscriptionware cancer). Even though I shoot log and use Resolve, this might be fun for quick stuff without a round trip through the desktop computer.

Just a heads up, the "privacy label" does not necessarily match the actual privacy policy. It's not required to match, and there is no accountability mechanism when it doesn't. What you want is the Privacy Policy, which links to https://halide.com/privacy/ , which is a 404 page.

Sorry about the broken link. We’re fixing it. To give a summary of our philosophy in the mean time: we don’t want your data.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by icelancer »

pseudosavant wrote: post #34

I'm interested in the benefits of this app for anyone who doesn't have an iPhone 15 Pro that takes video in Apple Log. The post made it seem it seem to me like an iPhone 15 Pro was required.

Yeah, I am quite interested in the app but I would need this cleared up as I have an iPhone 13 Pro.
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