P: Introducing the Project Indigo camera app

I posted about this a few days ago. I notice it only happening for photos taken with the main 1x camera. It seems to be a black bar added to the pictures so I made a shortcut to remove the bars. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7f557a743f024e679919fc0f6ff848a8

Indigo uses the ISO standard (https://www.iso.org/standard/86775.html) for storing gain maps in JPEGs which support SDR and HDR rendering. It is up to other tools in the wider photography ecosystem to implement full support for ISO gain maps.

Hello Frank - thank you for trying Project Indigo and for your stunning captures! These are really wonderful!

The truth is, if JPEG is sufficient for your needs, then keep capturing with JPEG-only. DNG is supposed to offer a few things in editing which JPEG does not, including things like more dynamic range (with less tone mapping, especially local tone mapping, baked in the image itself), ability to modify image temperature and tint better, control the amount of denoising you like, etc. Whether that matters or not is up to you. It may also not impact each image as much, so depending on your typical shooting scenes and conditions, you may benefit from raw DNG captures more or less.

Hello Hugo - thank you for your interest in Project Indigo. As you may have read in the forum or in other comments, Indigo doesn't work well in Japan and South Korea at the moment because it produces a shutter sound every time it requests a raw frame. And to offer Zero Shutter Lag capture, it requests raw frames all the time (up to 30fps). We are working with Apple to remove these unnecessary shutter sounds, but until that is done, we cannot ship in those countries.

Same here with my 14 pro. I posted UI issues a couple of days ago. I thought it's only an issue on non-Max phones but obviously it's a common problem.

Already asked and answered many times. If posters would use the search function, the community wouldnt be flooded with the same questions again and again.

Currently there is no separate dng.

Hello - thank you for trying Project Indigo and for your thoughtful message. I will try to address the issues you raised in my reply:

• About being unable to access the settings icon, do you by any chance have 'Button Shapes' toggle enabled in the device settings under Accessibility -> Display & Text Size? Alternatively, do you have Display Zoom set to 'Large' in device settings under Display & Brightness?
• To use the grey card, you can do the following: open Pro Controls, open the White balance settings (the temperature icon) and then simply tap on the grey card. This should set the Temperature and Tint settings such that the grey card is rendered as grey. The grey wheel you can turn on and off to check whether another grey object in the scene is rendered approximately gray if you change the Temperature or Tint manually by moving the slider, but you shouldn't need the wheel if you just tap on your grey card.
  • Note that Pro controls have to be turned on for this setting to take effect. If you turn Pro controls off, then your manually set white balance will not be active. All Pro controls settings will be remembered the next time you open Pro controls however, so you do not have to do the grey card again, as long as you are capturing the same scene.
• Accessing the timer issue is the same as accessing the settings issue - once we fix one the other one will be fixed as well.
  • This is the self timer mode you asked for later in the message.
• For focus loupe, open Pro controls, then open the focusing control (first on the left) then tap on the magnifying icon left of the slider.
• You can already take a photo with a Bluetooth remote, but Apple Watch is not yet supported. This will be on our todo list.