Viewfinder Preview

Camera framing app for iPhone

15 January 2020

We have teamed up with Dora Goodman cameras to produce a special version of Viewfinder Preview that is targeted at the cameras they produce. It will include new presets for their Zone cameras with various film backs and also a preset for their Zone pinhole camera.Dora Goodman is a producer of open source 3d printed cameras. If you have a 3d printer you can download their plans and print the cameras yourself. If the camera doesn't exactly suit your needs you can customize them to produce your own unique…

11 December 2019

Version 1.8 is now available to download from the iPhone AppStore. The main addition in this version is the support for the various multiple camera setups on the newer model iPhones.If you have a iPhone model which has multiple cameras a new settings menu entry 'iPhone Camera' has been added which allows you to choose which camera you want to use. If you need super wide angle support and have an iPhone 11 then select the wild angle camera. If you have a dual camera you can select to use both cameras at the…

4 April 2019

In this post we will discuss some of the aspects of the Journal view. This is an alternative to the standard film strip style Photo Gallery view. The photo gallery is very good for viewing lots of images very quickly. If you want to see the details about a photo or edit the notes attached to it, the view can become quite cumbersome. To solve this we added a new way to view the photos you capture with Viewfinder Preview. This is the Journal view.To access the Journal view you need to press the book icon in…

22 January 2019

Version 1.5 of Viewfinder Preview is now available in the iPhone App Store. The major change for version 1.5 is the film emulation renderer has been completely rewritten to improve its speed and efficiency. There had been reports of film emulation being slow on earlier iPhone models and the it was quite battery hungry. This was especially true of the plus size models. The new version of the renderer has fixed the speed issues and should be much more battery efficient. In addition to the film emulation…

7 January 2019

Version 1.4 of Viewfinder Preview is now available in the App Store. This version includes a new version of the rangefinder mode. In addition to displaying a box for the selected focal length it will include other focal lengths that are included in your focal length menu. These will be greyed out so they don’t interfere with the view too much but it does mean you get to see them without changing focal length. See above to see an example of this mode while framing a pineapple.An issue with UI responsiveness…

17 October 2018

Version 1.3.3 of Viewfinder Preview is now available in the App Store. This update includes storing the ISO, aperture and shutter speed stop increments with each film format setup. It also fixes a couple of bugs related to the storing of various data with the film format setup. And finally a crash bug has been fixed when an image fails to load.Previously the last app update I wrote about was version 1.3 so I will detail all the changes since then below.In version 1.3.1 an option was added to stop resetting…