Obscura Camera

It’s needs some fix but it’s amazing 🖤

I like that the app responds quickly when the shutter button is pressed and the fact that everything is accessible with one hand. However, the main thing that I like is having some filters to use with my pictures. You can even apply them to pictures that were already taken.<br/><br/>However, some issues with the app prevent me from using this as my main app for taking pictures. For one thing, I experienced a number of crashes in the short time I had it. Most occurred when I was first loading the app. I also found that some of my pictures appeared sideways or upside down in the camera roll. Apparently you need to see the orientation of the text on the sides of the app, and that will prevent that.<br/><br/>The issue that slows me down the most is that the app doesn’t retain certain settings from one use to the next. If I turn on grid lines, I want them always on. If I use the spirit level, I want it to always be there. Granted, I don’t want the filter and exposure settings to be retained, but things like spirit level, histogram viewing, and grid lines should be able to be saved. They are on other camera apps (at least gridlines and level).<br/><br/>Still, I like the filters and may buy the premium ones as I can use these on photos that have been taken.

It takes decent pix but on my SE 2nd gen after I use it won’t open I then delete it and reinstall a waste of cash

I’m looking for a good and ergonomic raw camera app that I can use to take wide angle images with my phone when I have a longer lens on my mirrorless, rather than switching lenses as often. I think the iPhone camera is good enough that if the scene is bright and not too high contrast a RAW image can be just about usable in some situations, at least if an extremely high quality image isn’t needed. But many of the camera apps that can shoot RAW are hard to use one handed in landscape mode. I was attracted here by the use of hardware buttons, big dials, and haptic feedback.<br/><br/>This is a lovely camera that is fairly intuitive to use, but it’s important to know that exposure setting is only fully automatic or fully manual. it’s missing ISO and shutter priority options, meaning you cannot lock ISO or lock shutter speed while automatically determining the other based on the exposure target.<br/><br/>I will probably have to continue to use the competing raw app that has less enjoyable controls instead, because the iPhone’s photos are already so noisy at ISO 25 I rarely want to increase the ISO and would rather shoot with a shutter delay, but I prefer not to manually set the optimal shutter speed for each shot. Call me out for being one of those dang kids who rarely shoots full manual if you want.<br/><br/>The other thing to know, speaking of shutter delay, is the shortest option is 3 seconds, while I would prefer a delay of 1 second or even 1/2 second when it’s just to ensure a stable image when shooting at slow shutter speeds.

When compared to other camera apps, I see less noise when I take pictures with ISO and shutter speed manually controlled.<br/>Good one.

I purchased a filter pack for this application and it’s not working, instead, the it is going to black and freezing. Please, check the bug.

You want me to update this so it not functional anymore 🤔🧐🤨😡🤯🤬<br/>Give me my 💰 back or a free update to the V3 app and we’ll talk…………

. . . it takes a full 15 seconds for it to open. You can lose a lot of photographs in 15 seconds. This only started with the update. FIX IT! (And yes I did delete it and reinstalled. Same problem.)