iPhone Apps

[John Thawley]

For those of you hip enough to own an iPhone (sorry couldn't resist the elbow) - There is an app available called PhotoCalc. It offers a ton of vital information for photographers... much of it even camera specific. It's called PhotoCalc. It will calcualte exposure settings, depth of field etc. etc. - but what is really cool, at least for outdoor shooters, it has a feature that gives you exact sun-up and sunset times based on your current location. Very cool and well worth the $2.99 price.

JT

[Steve Stein]

Well, that does it. Out with the Crackberry and in with the iPhone. I'm due for a new phone anyway.

Too bad they can't put a flashmeter in the sucker.

[Daniel Buck]

I've heard of one that has a (pretty accurate?) 'bubble level', might be useful. I don't have an iphone though.

LOL if there was a spot meter and a flash meter on there, I'd probably have to seriously look at getting an iphone :-D

[Morgan J Segal]

Velaclock is good for sun up and sun down times and it also gives you azimuth readings to tell you where the sun will rise and set

Weather Channel is good for weather and satellite maps

Tip Calculator for calculating tips for the math impaired like myself

There is also an app called Locations to database your locations with maps

[John Thawley]

Well, that does it. Out with the Crackberry and in with the iPhone. I'm due for a new phone anyway.

Too bad they can't put a flashmeter in the sucker.

Funny... what got me started on the idea was the thought that IF the images from the iPhone camera had EXIF data, you could capture the data and from their configure a calculation generator that would spit out combinations just like a hand-held light meter. It seems pretty logical.

However, the EXIF of the iPhone camera only shows f/2.8 as the Aperture. No ISO or shutter speed... though I'm guessing there has to be some baseline to those settings.

I'm sure the iPhone could function as a handheld meter.

But this App is pretty damn nice. There is also an App that allows you to send iPhone images at their full 2 megapixel resolution.

The new 3G phone is a pretty good camera. Night and day over the original's camera.

JT

[Scott Jones]

If sun and moon info is your thing (not sure how often this is useful for motor sports), I'd recommend Focalware. I used it extensively on a recent trip to the Southwest (Bryce, Zion, Monument Valley, Antelope Canyon, The Wave) to plan our sunrise and sunset locations. It not only gives sun and moon rise and set info for any location at any date/time, but it also tells you azimuth and elevation for any moment in time on any day at any latitude and longitude. Or you can just use the GPS current location if you want to.

So we were able to tell, for example, exactly where the moon would be in the sky relative to the Mittens in Monument valley several days before we arrived there. The cloud cover totally screwed up our plans, but that wasn't Focalware's fault. This app is expensive for iPhone software ($10), but if you need this info for a shoot, Focalware does the trick.

[E. John Thawley III]

There is also an app called Locations to database your locations with maps
Are you really using it? Reviews are not encouraging. Be interested if you disagree and feel its the hot set up for location photogs...

[Morgan J Segal]

Have not tried it yet

[Mike Ditz]

I have been using :

Locations for on the run location scouting, can tag coordinates and add photo to your description, a little clunky.
Air Sharing and Mobile Files to access files on my laptop
Send Photos to send more than one photo at a time
Say Who for voice dialing
FlightTrackl for flight info
Yelp for all kinds of recommendations,, mostly food related.
CrazyTanks fun little tank battles

[Chris Dodkin]

When I'm shooting on location, I use the iPhone to take a picture of that location and my camera set-up.

http://gallery.me.com/c.dodkin/100050/photo1216480633930/web.jpg

This acts as a good visual reminder of the shooting position etc etc, but also has GPS location tags in it.

When I then go to tag the photos shot at that spot, I use the GPS tagged iPhone photo as the location for all shots - easy, cheap GPS tagging.

[Steve Stein]

The iPhone isn't very good at panning. :)

Chris, I've been doing that as well. A friend of mine went to HI and UT and tagged locations where he shot. He did have a few problems in UT tagging shots, but it worked most of the time.