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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: heinrichvoelkel on June 30, 2012, 07:48:18 am

Title: searching for the best viewfinder app for the iPhone
Post by: heinrichvoelkel on June 30, 2012, 07:48:18 am

I'm looking for an viewfinder app for my iPhone. Which one are you using?

I want wide-angle capabilities and the possibility to dial in various film formats and digital aspect ratios?

Which one to buy?

Thanks in advance,

Heinrich

Title: Re: searching for the best viewfinder app for the iPhone
Post by: dchew on July 01, 2012, 06:21:46 am

You could try the Alpa eFinder (http://www.alpa.ch/en/products/tools/alpa-tools/alpa-efinder.html).   It has a wide angle mode if you have a wide angle lens for your iPhone.  I don't have one, so not sure how well that works.

Dave

Title: Re: searching for the best viewfinder app for the iPhone
Post by: heinrichvoelkel on July 01, 2012, 08:12:13 am

the wide angle mode I'm looking for should work without extra lens. i hope there is any app out there

Title: Re: searching for the best viewfinder app for the iPhone
Post by: dchew on July 01, 2012, 02:31:43 pm

Not sure what you mean.  The iPhone 4 has a 35mm equivalent focal length of about 30mm.  A viewfinder app is not going to get wider than the iPhone can see.  If you want to go wider than 30mm equivalent (~68 degrees, I think), then you have to have a wide angle attachment.

Dave

Title: Re: searching for the best viewfinder app for the iPhone
Post by: Wayne Fox on July 02, 2012, 12:18:09 am

I think alpa's program is based on viewfinder pro (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/viewfinder-pro/id362496185?mt=8).  It's the app I use.  You can add a wide angle adaptor to the phone and the app can compensate based on it's focal length so you can get it to show wider lenses than the standard iPhone camera will show.

I've used it for sometime and it's pretty well done.   A little pricey for an app, but it handles four camera systems and most of the available systems are in there.