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Just a quick question (that I haven't found an answer for in reading your docs): what's your preferred social media hashtag for PI pix? I post to BlueSky and Instagram... (@grenow)
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By @Gareth Renowden
Hi Gareth - thank you for reaching out. Most commonly used one we see is #capturedwithIndigo.
Can't select lens when Pro control is enabled. I have to disable Pro control to switch lens
Can't select lens when Pro control is enabled. I have to disable Pro control to switch lens
By @Exuberant_genius1513
That is by (current) design. We have to trade-off occupying a lot of viewfinder real estate, making it harder to frame, with less flexibility. Furthermore, when zooming you are not just changing the field of view: you may change which camera is being used (ultrawide, wide, or telephoto), with all 3 of them having different sensor and lens characteristics. Some of those characteristics may impact the Pro controls, so it becomes tricky to present all that to the user nicely. Having said that, just like the whole app itself, the UI is also experimental. We will be tweaking and tuning all aspects of the experience, including this, and if there is a good way to enable zoom changes while adjusting Pro controls, we will consider adding it.
Edit: looks like the photos uploaded out of order, but I hope you catch my drift.
By @Pag0n
Native camera uses a nice "trick" to make you forget about the focus distance: they run what marketing calls a "fusion camera", where all 3 camera modules (ultrawide, wide, and telephoto) are active at the same time. This allows them to, amongst other things, detect when your subject is too close for the current camera and autimatically switch to a wider one. For example, if you are on a telephoto lens, they may under the hood switch you to the wide lens without informing you about it. If you are too close even for the wide camera, they will switch to the ultra-wide lens, and then you will see the small yellow Macro indicator in the bottom left. In any case, what you end up with, if you capture with the 4x zoom but the camera used to capture is wide, is that the wide camera is cropped to match the 4x FOV, and then it is upscaled back up to your taget image resolution - this will be a serviceable photo, but the effective detail in the image will be lower than the megapixels indicate. Indigo cannot run more than 1 camera in raw capture mode (iOS limitation), so we cannot seamlessly switch you back and forth. We offer a Macro suggestion once we detect that you are too close with your currently used lens, though that suggestion cannot be perfect for certain technical reasons related to how focus works and how cameras behave optically. To test what the true near focus distance is for each lens, open Indigo, switch to Pro mode, open focus control, and move closer to a subject until focus indicator shows 0. You will notice that for telephoto that distance is pretty far.
One additional interesting tidbit - iPhone not only changes the lens to help with the minimum focus distance: it may also change the lens to help with Night shots! Before iPhone 17-series, telephoto cameras were performing much worse in low light compared to wide cameras. Therefore it was beneficial for them to use the wide camera and digitally crop the FOV, as the image quality would be better than dealing with a super-noisy full 12MP telephoto image. I haven't experimented much with night shots on 17 telephoto camera, but it is much improved so the instances where the native camera would switch the lens may be reduced, or even completely removed.
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