Jerred, just curious but what iPhone are you using? I'm not against using it for images but I'm likely not to use it just because I love holding a camera to my eye. Yet, I'm open and might be up for an upgrade.
Hey, Juliette! I almost always bring my OM-3 with me, so I get you! The Mood app can just do weird things out of the box I love. I'm using the 17pro - I had the 14 pro and it worked fine with Mood too (just not as fast)!
It begins to irk me when people talk about their OM-3 without indicating which OM-3 they have. I suppose I should just assume the digital version. The analog OM-3 was a great camera with some flaws. The OM-3Ti was truly legendary
(.. speaking as one who lived and breathed OM-1, -2, and -4Ti, but never the -3 series. The -4Ti was a gem but eventually succumbed to electronics failure (nothing was weatherproof in those days). The OM-3Ti was a -4Ti without the electronic shutter mechanism .. a fully mechanical camera with what was a stunningly good metering system for its day. I miss that gear. )
I'll accept your opinion that the iPhone using this app is fun and makes nice images for the iPhone and low resolution images on a laptop for sharing by email. But these images are first, overly processed digitally. Second, the camera itself does not have the lens and sensor to produce these images at first, which is why it must rely heavily on its internal computer to process them. The finished product does not provide enough data for extensive post processing. So you're limited to a fun camera to produce nice shots to share with family and friends on a screen -- not that there's anything wrong with that. But it limits what a serious photographer might want to do afterward with the photos.
Agreed on a lot - but it depends on usage, right? Sometimes ripping apart an image in editing... if done on purpose and with intent? I think cool things could happen. It all depends. And imagine that these are pieces of a larger body of work? I have a big project I'm doing that I call "North Hawk," and I specifically photograph stuff with apps like mood.camera because they will look totally weird, which fits into the project! BUT - agreed on anything else though - for selling work to clients that I'd put on a wall, generally these won't do much for me!
I will rethink using phone seriously again. Thanks for this post. Refreshing!
I’ve been using this app for quite some time and really like it.
Awesome, Alicia! I commented on one of your pieces - great work! Let me know if you have mood.camera stuff out there!
Ugh, another thing making me regret switching to Android... :(
Oh man. Sorry Josh!!!! Lol.
Android has plenty good photo apps!
Jerred, just curious but what iPhone are you using? I'm not against using it for images but I'm likely not to use it just because I love holding a camera to my eye. Yet, I'm open and might be up for an upgrade.
Hey, Juliette! I almost always bring my OM-3 with me, so I get you! The Mood app can just do weird things out of the box I love. I'm using the 17pro - I had the 14 pro and it worked fine with Mood too (just not as fast)!
m.c intrigues me. Trying it today.
It begins to irk me when people talk about their OM-3 without indicating which OM-3 they have. I suppose I should just assume the digital version. The analog OM-3 was a great camera with some flaws. The OM-3Ti was truly legendary
(.. speaking as one who lived and breathed OM-1, -2, and -4Ti, but never the -3 series. The -4Ti was a gem but eventually succumbed to electronics failure (nothing was weatherproof in those days). The OM-3Ti was a -4Ti without the electronic shutter mechanism .. a fully mechanical camera with what was a stunningly good metering system for its day. I miss that gear. )
I will let you know if I try this after an upgrade. Thanks Jerred!
I'll accept your opinion that the iPhone using this app is fun and makes nice images for the iPhone and low resolution images on a laptop for sharing by email. But these images are first, overly processed digitally. Second, the camera itself does not have the lens and sensor to produce these images at first, which is why it must rely heavily on its internal computer to process them. The finished product does not provide enough data for extensive post processing. So you're limited to a fun camera to produce nice shots to share with family and friends on a screen -- not that there's anything wrong with that. But it limits what a serious photographer might want to do afterward with the photos.
Agreed on a lot - but it depends on usage, right? Sometimes ripping apart an image in editing... if done on purpose and with intent? I think cool things could happen. It all depends. And imagine that these are pieces of a larger body of work? I have a big project I'm doing that I call "North Hawk," and I specifically photograph stuff with apps like mood.camera because they will look totally weird, which fits into the project! BUT - agreed on anything else though - for selling work to clients that I'd put on a wall, generally these won't do much for me!