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Exploring manual controls with iOS 8 and ProCamera

Exploring manual controls with iOS 8 and ProCamera

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Exploring manual controls with iOS 8 and ProCamera

- This week, on The Practicing Photographer, at the time of this recording, we're about one week after the release of iOS 8. Now, iOS 8 was touted as having a lot of great features for photographers, and it does, but most of them are not in the camera application. If you played much with the new camera application, I don't know, the time lapse feature is kind of so-so, I think Lapse It, a third-party app, is much better for that. I do like the independent control of focus and exposure, there's some nice changes, but the real benefit for shooters in iOS 8 is not the changes to the camera application, but changes under the hood in the OS that allow third-party application developers to have more manual control over the iPhone camera. So this could really change things in the future about how you shoot with your favorite apps on the phone. We're about a week out, as I said, and we're just now getting the first updates to…

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