Manual – RAW Camera
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photo & Video | $3.99 | William Wilkinson | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Featured in the NYTimes "If you like to manually adjust camera settings, you’ll love Manual".
A powerful camera app with full control over your image. Quickly and simply adjust all parameters of your image. No more tapping and hoping automatic can understand what you want. Take control.
Full independent control of
• Shutter
• ISO
• White Balance
• Focus
• Exposure Compensation
Cool Things®
• Live monitor automatic exposure values
• Live Histogram
• Photos save directly to Camera Roll
• Focus zoom
• Optional delayed shutter for long exposures
• Fill Flash Mode (Flashlight)
• Grid Overlays (Rule of Thirds, Square)
• Light & Dark Themes
• EXIF viewer
If you're a photographer tired of trying to tap your way to the exposure you want, then this is the app for you. Fighting to get the sweet spot between a blown out background and a silhouetted subject? Stop tapping and just set the ISO and shutter yourself, you know how, stop letting your silly pocket computer decide what looks good to you.
Be better than automatic. Shoot Manual.
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Requires iOS 8 or later. Please note: iPhone lenses are fixed-aperture by design and do not have an adjustable iris.
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Made by William Wilkinson & Craig Merchant
@shootmanual
http://shootmanual.co
Photos featured in screenshots shot by Kevin Russ with an iPhone (licensed via Stocksy).
Reviews
Terrible Tutorial
BenFlynn
The tutorial completely takes over when you first launch the app, is confusing, and you can’t quit it. Terrible design.
Great app
Chris31390
Bought it on day 1 of its release on the App Store, and it has been on every iPhone I’ve owned since. It’s use declined a bit as I started using LR but I still use manual from time to time. While it’s simple but powerful I do however feel it’s UI was more intuitive back in the day. In more recent updates it seems the iso and shutter speed are a bit more less than intuitive to use than earlier days and pinpointing a specific setting can be difficult as swiping back and forth they move quickly. I do hope the developers address this but it doesn’t break the app.
With no aperture control this is hardly a manual camera
Justafewbits
This all let’s you fiddle with shutter speed, ISO, focus and make some Exposure Compensation adjustments, but there is no aperture control, so it’s basically useless. Also, the sensitivity of controls is such that you will spend ages trying to dial-in any settings. So if you want to spend your time messing with your phone instead of taking pictures, spend money here. Otherwise, get a fully manual camera.
Less intuitive
pitzeleh8
Not sure what changed, but feels less intuitive from a UI perspective than in the past. Biggest problem is that I cannot figure out how to get a full viewfinder. It seems permanently cropped, which means you cannot take precise photos. For me, that defeats a key function of the app.
Save your money
dwrrn90
I was looking for an application that would allow manual operation of the camera similar to my DSLR. I found this app to have very few features that actually allowed for manual operation. In addition to that this camera app lags severely behind when there is any movement. Overall this has been a waste of $4. Wouldn’t recommend this to anyone.
Don’t buy
Mr Marcness
Purchased for the Dng/Raw controls are unstable spend more time trying to get the setting right because it goes back to auto used on iPhone X and 11pro max waste of money
I get portraits at concerts, others only get drums
mikegrok
Drums are shiny and make great point light sources for cameras to focus on, so they do. With manual focus, iso, and shutter, I get expressions on properly exposed faces of whomever I choose.
Confusing useless interface with too many stupid prompts
Slug Face
It should never, ever, ever assume I want auto anything or pop up stupid prompts saying “tap to auto...”. If I wanted auto I’d use the stock camera app.
Color temp is gone
AnonymousCmtr
Please take back color temperature. It’s very important to any serious photographer.
Missing things
Alxxex
It doesn’t seem to have half the settings it said it did. I was buying it for the aperture for 4 dollars and it wasn’t even there. And then the ones that were there were so frustrating to use.
