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BitCam 2 is live! A complete rewrite and upgrade of this classic 10 year old iPhone 1-bit camera app: Greatly expanding the Camera mode, adding a brand new Editor mode full of pixel-perfect surprises, and full native support for iPad/macOS Free download! bitcam.app

If you’re not a giga camera nerd, all you need to know about the iPhone Duo main camera is that in terms of physical sensor size it’s between the 13 Pro and 14 Pro 14 Pro has identical sensor size as the 18 Pro, btw

Haven't seen any reviewer talk about this but I think this is a bigger deal than most people realize

Many film cameras have inspired me over the years, but only 2 digital cameras have made me feel like they're something truly special (talking about hardware + output here; sadly even on those, the software is nothing inspiring...)

I know there's only like 7 of us using the Apple Music Classical app but the mismatch between icons in 27.2 is just adding insult to injury

Design your app as if it were the only app the iPhone was ever meant to run

The real sign that HomeView fits perfectly within Apple’s home devices strategy is if gen 2 comes in 2031 with just a chip upgrade, price bump, and new colors

OK Apple how about we do this for HomePods now

The new editing feature in BitCam 2.0 is pretty dope. You can pull in existing photos, change foreground/background colors, modify contrast, all sorts of stuff.

One nice thing about maintaining several apps is that you can use the smaller/lesser used ones as sandbox for experimentation before committing to big design directions on the larger/more popular apps. Trichromy fans, there aren't many of you, but there's a cool update coming :)

Closing the aperture to f/4 on the iPhone 18 Pro just to get sun stars is a bit of a gimmick... ...but it is a fun gimmick

The app’s screenshots have been unchanged for dozens of updates, literally the same for several years now, and all of a sudden App Review decides they’re not good anymore 🙃

I have been prototyping a new camera app that will give your phone a bit of a workout 👀

If the iPhone Duo has the main camera sensor of the 17e, purely in terms of size (1/2.55”), that’ll put it on par with the 11 Pro & 12 Pro If it has the sensor of the Air (1/1.56”), that’ll put it between the 13 Pro (1/1.7”) & 14 Pro (1/1.28”)

Bayer Cam lets you set the variable aperture on the 18 Pro at four distinct values, like the default camera app does; but you can also set it to be continuous

Bayer Cam now lets you pick which RAW decoder you want to use- including the ML-based v9 people have been hyping all summer It is quite a bit slower than v8, and the difference is subtle in most shots - so I get why v8 is still the default. Still, if you shoot a lot in low light, might be worth it!

Little details: the processing knobs in Bayer Cam reflect what they control, based on the value they’re set to the HDR knob glows brighter than others based on how high it is set the MONO knob renders the color spectrum to match the selected contrast filter

Up to 20% faster processing speeds in Bayer Cam 2.1 and because the interface displays a technical readout on every capture, you don't have to take my word for it: users who pay attention will see the actual numbers :)

Lots of great responses to lightbulbcomputer.com this week, I’ll take some time to put together some behind the scenes content to share more about the prototype setup!

“Hey lightbulb, show me an award winning book from a female author I haven’t read” Modern computer vision models can read detailed everyday scenes almost instantly & with high accuracy - this enables a lightbulb computer to understand the world around you, and quickly answer complex requests.

While I was working on Lightbulb Computer over the summer, I learned that some people use projectors to help with cutting & sewing fabric. Very cool!

A lightbulb computer lets you pin notes, timers, and other widgets in the world around you You can stay focused on what you’re doing, no fussing with a screen (especially nice with wet or messy hands), and everyone in the room can see it too, and join in

We can build a world where people do things with digital information together, in the real world, without tiny screens or awkward smart glasses

With a Lightbulb Computer, you can look up a word in a book you're studying, without taking out your phone or wearing smart glasses.

Bayer Cam 2.1 update coming very soon - some fun things for iPhone 18 Pro owners, and some fun things for everyone else too

I’ve been asking non techie people recently what they think of foldable phones, and if they’d consider getting one - and a common response I get is “Bigger screen sounds nice but I’m too afraid it’d break”

Releasing something big in the next week or so :)

Updated my iPhone Pro camera reference chart Another year with a 1/1.28" Sony 90X sensor, we know what to hope for for next year...

Apple has high-level APIs that make building UI automagical But when experimenting with new hardware I like to rebuild everything from scratch to understand the fundamental building blocks An old habit from when I was a UI prototyper in Apple's Hardware org, with only basic firmware to work with 😄

Well, the whole family's here

On every iOS device until the Duo, the camera sensor orientation matched the screen orientation, which made the elegant design of 65x24.app possible On iPhone Duo this isn't true anymore, and it's going to be a bit of a pain to solve. Luckily, I have lots of ideas...

Camera app on iPhone Duo fills the front screen- but the camera sensor has a 4:3 (1.33) aspect ratio, whereas the Duo is 1.45 This means there's about 10% of the image's horizontal dimension missing from the preview An odd decision, but I guess they preferred that over having 170px of black edges?