Topic: Mobile Device Apps List

[LT]

There are a variety of apps (for a variety of devices and OSs) that might make our analog experience easier - either in the field or in the dark/light room.

post your favourites (with a mini review if you like) here  - I'll eventually move this to the resources board.

Mine so far:

Photoshop Touch for Android - a very useful editing software with layers, selections and a variety of filters/ tools to help realise your scans as a final print.  I use this with my nexus 10 by uploading film scans (via USB OTG).

Talking Timer for Android - I use this when I'm tray developing sheet film in the darkroom. It counts down with words in 1 minute intervals (and a vibration buzz each 30 second with 2 x 15 second intervals words in last 30 seconds) without having to have the screen on.  I nearly always underestimate time in the dark, then get in a panic about whether I actually switched my timer on or not - this does away with that.

Darkroom Notekeeper for android - a very useful app to record details from neg to final print (the developer has quite a few other darkroom related apps on the site)

[Greg Bartley]

I use "massive dev" as a great starting point on my iPhone. I really like its timer system and one can change to a deep red or green screen if doing tray deving.

[Andrej K]

Thanks for starting this topic Leon! I'll be watching it closely now that I finally realized to go 'droid very soon!.

[moominsean]

Hmmm...this is skirting the digital realm. I will be keeping an eye on this thread. 

The most complicated app I use on my phone for photography is the timer while developing film.

[sapata]

Let's tell this guy he needs an App for helping with his work...

John Coffer - "The tintype Recaptured" on Vimeo

[Late Developer]

1. The Photographer's Ephemeris
2. DoF calculator

Not used "regularly" but very useful when required.

[mcduff]

On the iOS side of things I have a few apps on my iphone:

• Expositor Lite - which is just a digital version of the classic paper slide-rule style of exposure calculator. I mainly have this on as I am trying to remember a few more exposure settings for common lighting environments other than Sunny 16 
• Pocket Light Meter - I really do not use it a lot but it is nice to have a spare light meter around if I need a backup. This is free but I use it enuff that I clicked on the 'by the developer a pint' button 

i was going to buy the massive dev app but, frankly, at $8.99 it is a bit much for me. The $5 I voluntarily paid for the light meter app is about as much as I want to spend on an app that replicates the info that I can easily find on the web.

Speaking of which, I have started saving PDFs on my iphone (on the iphone I do that by saving them to ibooks) and you can obviously do the same with other devices. I am mainly using HC-110 right now so I have http://www.photostock.fr/site/FICHE_TECHNIQUE/HC110.pdf saved there and a couple of manuals (courtesy of butkus) for the sekonic meter (I am playing with for the first time in years) and for a couple of cameras which I need the info for. I also keep crib notes for random bits of info, and I turn to them as often as the apps. For example, what the zone focusing distances are for the various symbols on the different cameras I have. Another example is I am trying to remember a few more rules other than Sunny 16, so I have taken all the situations that paper exposure calculators have and distilled that down to a half a dozen environments
 I commonly shoot in and have saved that as a note

My daughter is into a lot of photomanipulation these days and she has filterstorm and snapspeed on her ipad. They are good but not for me at this point in my life -- I have generally moved past my 'photoshopping' point in life and when I am not working I am preferring to only using Pshop for adjusting tonal values, cropping, and dust zapping -- so i really do not want to use these features on a tablet or phone. As my daughter pointed out, I mainly use the camera on my phone for taking pictures of my old cameras, haha.

[Ezzie]

Massive dev chart app on iOS for timing film development. Have made all my own presets for different films in Caffenol.

Photobuddy, also iOS. Handy calculator for DoF, FoV, hyperfocal settings, diffraction, bellows compensation, sun and moon and more, for all sorts of film/sensor sizes and lenses.

And a light meter of some sort.

Not to mention a host of post processing tools which I will refrain from listing here.

[Alan]

I use the massive dev chart too, very handy and saves starting up the laptop
to get times when developing film.

i downloaded a number of light meters and when tested against my "analogue" lunasix3
meter they were W A Y off . . . so i deleted them 

i recently bought a lomography phone scanner for scanning 35mm with
my phone and using this handy FREE app >

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en&id=com.iudesk.android.photo.editor&utm_campaign=nl_smartphone_scanner_launch_int&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

[Moiz]

I use Chain Timer (http://www.iphoneappsplus.com/utilities/chain-timer/index.htm) for the darkroom especially when working in the dark as I can set different sounds for when to agitate, etc.

I use this Metronome app (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/metronome/id416443133?mt=8) for timing when doing contact prints. (I say that as if I have been doing it for years when it's only been twice!)

I sometimes use Pinhole Assist (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/pinhole-assist/id466757473?mt=8) for exposures as it automatically accounts for reciprocity

[stevesegz]

As mentioned in a previous post, pro view finder is very useful before you set up your LF gear.

Also like the weather pro app, sunrise app and tideapp for judging when best to plan a trip to the woods or to the beach.

Pinhole assist is a new one to me and I like it, massive developer chart a must and DOF calculator gets some use sometimes.