645 PRO: RAW Redux

We’re doing some really innovative things with our new iPhone camera app, 645 PRO. One of these is to save an image that is appreciably less processed than any other to yet be captured by iPhone. We spent a lot of time (and discussed with quite a few people) before deciding what to call this. […]

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iPhone: a Professional Photography Tool?

Rollei 35 and iPhone 4S running 645 PRO

I’ve read a number of blog postings and comments lately suggesting that “real” photographers only use iPhones for messing about and having fun, and will always choose a “real camera” when working. I think that’s not true. Let’s leave aside the fact that, for many photographers, the line between working with a camera and messing […]

Rollei 35 and iPhone 4S running 645 PRO
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What’s cooking with RAW?

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EDIT: the contents of this posting are now outdated with the reasons for that explained in this posting. Earlier today we announced the imminent arrival of our new camera app, 645 PRO. One factor that has caught a few people’s attention is that the app not only saves JPEGs, like most iPhone camera apps, but […]

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Pixels pixels everywhere

There is an interesting article in the BBC News Magazine on the digital camera and how it’s changed photography (and the way we take photographs). It also discusses how the camera phone (iPhone in particular as it’s arguably the most used phone camera) has changed the digital camera. It asks: does the fact that we […]

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Flickr Fun

At Jag.gr we love that there’s a Flickr group devoted to 6×6 and 6×7 iPhone app photography. It’s not the biggest group, but many of the members are prolific and talented. A number of them have a real eye for pattern. Have a look at some of the more abstract images here: beautiful birds on wires […]

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Winning Phoneography

The new Mobile Photography Awards (MPAs) has just announced the winners of its first annual competition. Phoneography is fast becoming accepted as a legitimate form of photography and a valid art-form and MPAs immediate goal is to showcase the photographers, the developers and the work produced.   While filters and effects can – in the […]

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If you smell a rat

From time to time we’ve read comments about “shill” (dishonest) reviews on the iTunes App Store. The be honest, we’ve tended to dismiss them as simply sour grapes. But then… A few days ago we got an unsolicited mail from a company offering to market our apps for a fee (nothing odd in that). However […]

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Crooks!

The Justice & Police Museum in Sydney, Australia has archived (and on display) the “rogues galleries”, 6×4-inch glass plate negatives produced in the New South Wales prisons and police stations between 1912 and 1930.  These “special photographs” (as they are described in the police documents of the period) were taken in the various inner-city police stations […]

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AIDS, Art and Africa

To mark World Aids Day (1 December), a Pasadena gallery is hosting a photography exhibition put together by Art Aids Art.    The exhibition, South Africa: A Nation in Transformation, shows works by photographer Jürgen Schadeberg who has photographed the most significant faces and places in the last 60 years of South African history. You don’t […]

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Turn, Turn, Turn…

There are plenty of add-on lenses for the iPhone out there. Some of them stick over the lens, others screw in to specially-adapted cases. But the iPhone Lens Dial from Photojojo has to be the most radical yet.   A chunky (described as "slim") aluminium case supports a three-lens turret reminiscent of the turrets once […]

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