645 PRO Mk III Reviews

Great app but laggy on my SE

pitzeleh8

I've always had some lag issues with this app but they've gotten pretty bad. Sometimes it's fine. Other times... Choppy viewfinder and a lot more lag than in the past (E.g. while framing a shot or immediately after taking one, on HQ JPG mode). Hope to see it back to form someday. Finally, battery drain is extreme compared to other camera apps (VSCO, Filmborn).

Warning / caution

Distagon Sid

A nicer camera app than the bulit in one, but controls are clumsy and challenging to opperate especially if you dont have kid size hands. I purchased this for a vacation and the app quit saving the images to camera roll. Two days of memories and images to keep are now not there. Developer tried to accuse me of changing the settings which did not happen. Massive glitch to which they responded ignorantly. I may keep useing the app but not for anything noteworthy. Apps that dont perform properly and where you might be accused of not opperationg correctly are quickly abandoned.

Hands down best photography app for IOS - and incredible support

TomBAnderson

This is by far the best app that I have found. My Canon 60d doesn't see nearly as much action since I loaded 645 Pro Mk III on my iPhone. Aside from the outstanding performance of the app itself, the support is incredible. I had upgraded my iPhone to IOS 11 yesterday, and it caused a glitch with saving of photos to the camera roll. I had shot several photos of the Mars/Venus conjunction at sunrise this morning, and then could not find them. I sent a support message at 6:15 am, and had a reply from Mike Hardaker within minutes telling me how to correct the problem. (IOS 11 removes 645 Pros access to photos, and then when you reset it, it doesn't update until you completely shut down the app). Best app investment I've ever made.

Does not save to camera roll

Rhonbo2

Since iOS 11 it quit saving images. Have to use another app now. Also don’t like the tiny exposure compensation and adjustment buttons, would much rather just slide my finger like the built in app. Looking for an alternative.

Help

Becca Jo H.

I want to like this app, and have invested some time in trying to figure everything out to create best possible photos . . . It seems the pics I have taken with this app turn out worse/blurry than my iPhone 6 Plus. Seems to be quite a bit of lag time - If subject is not completely still this will without a doubt result in a blurry photo. Not a very good shutter speed. ☹️

Lags

Jayswiftz

Brought this app thinking maybe it can be better than some others I purchased but that's not the case it's very laggy when you go and take others shot in a different area.

Great app

Dent De Leon

If you’re interested in the technical aspects of photography and want to capture better images with an iPhone, 645 Pro has a lot of options. You can use filters in the camera to get a particular effect or save an unfiltered image for post. Or the app can do both, it’s highly adaptable. The on-board 58 page User Guide details the many configurable functions. 645 coaxes every thing out of the iPhone to make is as much like a DSLR as possible. And it has old-school film features: if you want to simulate shooting with 35mm Kodachrome and a #85 warm filter or 6x7 b&w street photogrsphy with an orange filter, this app can do it. Notes: • the app simulates glass filters (including grads) and emulates a dozen b&w and color film stocks. • it also has every film size format, from 6x6 to 645 to 6x17. • I’ve found the developer to be responsive to inquiries and he updates the app regularly. I give it five stars. ★★★★★

Does not work with iOS11!

hooookup

This app used to be the best camera app hands down. Unfortunately does not work with iOS11. Super bummed!

5 Star features, 2.5 Star implementation = 3

dr0berts

I will start by saying that the features in this application are darned near without equal across all iPhone camera apps. It's truly impressive the functionality that is packed into this app. And no in-app purchases - thank you! Where I find great disappointment is in the implementation, meaning, how one interacts with the app to make use of the features: First, on the surface, the idea of mimicking a DSLR layout sounds pretty good. In use though one is reminded that the DSLR layout works so well due to tactile feedback. You know where a switch/button is by feel. That is not recreated here as the iPhone is a touch screen. What you end up with is a fair clutter of distractingly rendered 3D buttons which make zero use of a touch screen's benefit. For example, hitting the flash "button" to toggle its state would be best implemented through an update of the icon on the button. This does not happen - instead the state is represented by a symbol resident in the viewfinder area, contributing to on-screen clutter. Other icons in the VF include white balance, metering, iso, speed, AF and AE lock, etc. To be fair, there is a button which can toggle all of the indicators off, HOWEVER, it also turns off the ability to see what your speed and iso is in any shooting mode and further disables the ability to adjust exposure in Auto mode (the adjusters disappear). In short, reasonable usability requires one to get used to clutter. Second, a key area where DSLR duplication makes sense is through the use of sliders to control speed, iso, and exposure compensation. This is a good mimicking of DSLR dials. Here is where the application majorly disappoints. Ironically, the choice made here is to use stepper "buttons" (in the viewfinder) instead of sliders - small +/- symbols. They are difficult targets, easy to fat finger and frustratingly slow to use. Third, you cannot use the camera in left hand landscape mode. The app seems to read that orientation as upside down and moves the shutter and associated buttons to the right side, away from the left hand. I happen to be left handed. This takes the rigid DSLR layout analogy a bit too far in my opinion. Perhaps a more positive way to look at it is that this app requires two hands under particular circumstances. In summary, for the slow and methodical shooter I can see the feature richness being something which wins over many and makes up for other shortcomings. However, for a street shooter looking for easily accessible controls with minimal fuss I for one would take a pass. Lastly, for the record, I took the time to share much of this feedback with the developer well in advance of this review - I didn't hear anything back.

Crashed!

LDMSK

It has crashed on my anytime I attempt to take a picture. I could not even have a picture :(

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