P: Introducing the Project Indigo camera app

Hello - thank you for trying Indigo and for your feedback.

• For the geolocation, can you confirm that you have granted the app permission to access the location data of the device? You can go to the camera settings and tap on any of the permissions, which will take you straight to the system settings. There you can check if Location access is granted.
• For the filename, are you referring to the long file name starting with IDG? If so, that file name is not random, but is based on date and timestamp so it is easy to sort and find by capture time. If it is something else, do let me know what to look for.

Hello - would you mind explaining your request a bit more so that I don't wrongly understand what you are asking. Is it for Indigo to allow DNG-only capture, or for the Indigo sharing option in the filmstrip to allow to share DNGs, or both of those, or something else? Thank you.

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Hello - thank you for your message and for reporting the issue. This was reported earlier on the thread, and unfortunately there is not much we can do for now: Indigo camera runs a constant stream of raw frames during viewfinding and stores them temporarily in a buffer. When a shutter button is pressed, we combine several of those frames into one photo and we issue a shutter sound. However, in Japan and South Korea there is a requirement that every raw photo request to iOS must issue a shutter sound, even if that raw frame is not used for the capture. That is why our viewfinder sounds like it is constantly "capturing" photos.

Before iOS 18, we had this problem in other regions as well, but Apple introduced an API that allows us to block the shutter sound and issue it only once the user actually captures a photo. However, that API does not work in SK or Japan. We worked with Apple on that API, and will continue to investigate options on solving this in SK and Japan, but given that the control is not in our hands, we cannot give any clear guidelines for when, or even if, this can be fixed without sacrificing the resulting image quality and/or the app functionality.

Hello - thank you for your message. Indigo camera at present only supports images up to 12MP. We will explore options to provide higher resolution images in the future.

Just tried this app on an borrowed iPhone 16 pro. Everything seems to work like magic! Photos look significantly more natural and clean than the Proraw 48mp files even if it's just 12mp. Interface and features run quite smooth but probably needs some optimization to make the device less warm.

On the other hand, I felt there are features and stuff that I hope this app will gain in future updates:

• Precision controls to tune the way this app handles sharpening and noise reduction before taking pictures.
• Dedicate modes and UI optimization for long exposure and astrophotography features.
• Self timer or delay shutter mode to prevent camera shake when let the phone stay still.
• I felt that the workflow of moving between saved pictures in Apple’s photos app and edits in Lightroom is quite clunky so I hope this camera app will eventually replace the outdated sluggish camera in Lightroom app so the whole workflow can be more seamless from shooting to editing dng files in one single app.
• Finally, I hope this app will also run on older iphone devices that still support iOS 18.5 and iPad Pro devices. I believe it give older 12mp cameras a new life!

Thank you for your message. To offer all of its features, Project Indigo requires a minimum of 6GB of RAM on the device. To ship Indigo on devices with less memory would probably require sacrificing some features, which is possible but is not our priority for the time being. As we develop additional features and further optimize the application speed we will keep reevaluating the opportunities to support older devices.

Thank you for your message and for sharing your experience. The issue you found is due to the Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), which physically moves the lens to keep the frame stable in presence of handshake. While the viewfinder is running we stream raw frames for ZSL capture, and those frames do not use OIS. That's why the viewfinder and final capture FOVs match. But for Night mode the capture does use OIS with the shifted lens position, while the viewfinder still does not, hence the FOV difference. We will explore options to mitigate this problem in the future.

is there a way to disable the HDR mode for captured jpegs ?

By @Peter25703978vxk9

Hi Peter - there is no way to disable HDR for JPEGs. But the SDR-look is in each JPEG because they are written as base (SDR) + gain map (HDR), per the ISO standard. The ecosystem is sitll being worked on, but more and more tools are properly supporting displaying SDR and HDR correctly, depending on whether the display used for viewing can support HDR or not. 

Out of curiosity, can you tell me what is the use-case for SDR-only JPEGs?