Viewfinder Preview

Version 1.3 of Viewfinder Preview in now available from the App Store. This version includes the following.You can view the full release notes here.

In addition to Viewfinder Preview I have also written a darkroom timer app for the iPhone. I wasn’t happy with any of the timer apps currently available so I wrote my own. It allows you to build your own development recipes with individual timers for each stage of the process. Because I don’t want to be messing about with my phone in the darkroom it is designed to be simple to use (touch anywhere on the screen to start/stop a timer) and easy to see the current state of the timers at a glance. You can find…

Version 1.2 of Viewfinder Preview is now available in the App Store. This is the second major update for the app. The main new feature to be included in this build is the new Journal view. This is an alternative to the film strip style Photo Gallery that is already available.The idea behind the Journal is to streamline the viewing of the data attached to photos and the editing of notes. As seen above, the photos are displayed in a table with photo details: format, focal length, exposure details and notes,…

Another minor version update was released today. This is to fix a crash bug plus a number of other smaller bugs.Fixed crash when taking a photo in rangefinder mode and zoomed out past extents of iPhone camera. Fixed multiple issues where manual exposure mode was getting cancelled. Allow focus point selection while in manual exposure mode. If you select a menu that is already displayed it will hide it. Added startup reminder message telling user Viewfinder Preview needs access to iPhone Photos in the…

One of the major new features in version 1.1 of Viewfinder Preview is film emulation filters. Selecting a film emulation in the Settings will apply a filter to the preview view to replicate the colour and tone characteristics of that particular film stock. Selecting a black and white film will give you a black and white view. The emulation is done through large colour look up tables. Given a source colour the colour look up table returns an emulated colour. These colour look up tables or presets have been…

The first major update to Viewfinder Preview has been released and is now available in the App Store. This release has quite a number of new features.See the full release notes here.