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Boris - So far, so good on the new update! I see that cropping in the Apple Photos app still causes the magenta color tint. As a workaround, would it be possible for the team to consider a simple cropping tool within the Project Indigo film strip? I'm looking for the ability to do basic cropping/framing without having to go into Lightroom Mobile, crop there, re-export as a JPEG, and delete the original. Thoughts?
By @Moonboots22
I presume you are still on iOS 18.x? The problem with editing in Apple Photos should be resolved in iOS 26, which is why it makes little sense for us to invest effort at this point in time to add such functionality. Do note that iOS 26 intruduces several new capabilities which are really needed for proper functioning of Indigo: they should help us fix some focus issues (a common complaint) and greately reduce image loss when the app is backgrounded after capture (a very common complaint), so we will be making a move to iOS 26 relatively soon.
Correct! Was planning to stick with 18.7 until some of the iOS26 kinks were ironed out, probably after the first post-launch update. Though you're tempting me to upgrade sooner here with these added features. 🙂
By @Moonboots22
We have not decided whether to support both iOS 18 and iOS 26 or to just jump to iOS 26 - for a small team such as ours to support multiple OS versions is very challenging: that is double the bugs and oftentimes double the implementation and testing time for each new feature. So it is likely that we will make a full switch to iOS 26... Indigo is experimental after all. 😉
I have been using PI on my iPhone 16 Pro Max. I upgraded to 17 Pro Max and it says not supported. Anyone have it working or will we need an update?
By @Jay Levine Media
An update is required. It is in the works and we will release it as soon as it is ready.
Will there be a Project Indigo version for iPhone 17 Pro? I'm spoiled! Not eager to go back to working with RAW files...
By @georgeb73469922
We are working on a new release and hope to have it available in a week or two at most. Please stay tuned.
After updating to version 1.0.3 today, when I tried to use 3X and 6X, dark gray circular stains appeared on the screen. I wiped the lens and tried again, but the problem still existed.
After updating to version 1.0.3 today, when I tried to use 3X and 6X, dark gray circular stains appeared on the screen. I wiped the lens and tried again, but the problem still existed.
By @Man_Keyboard4263
Interesting. It looks to me like a lens smudge because if you take the 3x image and crop the center, the smudge appears exactly where I'd expect it for the 6x image. If you run the native camera app and point at the same scene, do these issues disappear?
When I took the same photo at 3x and 6x with the native camera, the stain disappeared.
When I took the same photo at 3x and 6x with the native camera, the stain disappeared.
There is a high probability that dust has entered the inside of my telephoto lens.
By @Man_Keyboard4263
This does look like something on the lens to me, and it moves consistent with that hypothesis when you zoom from 3x to 6x. Not sure how to clan it though... shaking the phone may damage the auto-focus mechanism and/or lens alignment. 😕
Any chance to add a simple timelapse feature please? I would love to capture these lovely DNG files to a short 5-sec videos for my vlog shots. I mean, it's how crazy we can edit DNG files straight on iPhone through Lightroom Mobile, then export image sequences to video editor for RAW video on an iPhone nowadays.
By @NickL9783
Timelapse is on our backlog - it is not that difficult to do actually, but we are prioritizing other features which are more impactful immediately to a large number of customers: stability, performance, iPhone 17 and iOS 26 support, image quality, ... the list is long 🙂
@BorisTheBlade How does stacking frames work once you entered night mode? For example, I am using https://testufo.com/frameskipping to test 1/2s single frame, and 1/30s 15 frames. The squares captured should be the same on both but it isn't. Is it stacking 15 frames at 1/30s per frame? Perhaps you can test this as well, handheld vs on a tripod, which was what I did and keep framing as identical as you can.
By @nhan_8084
In theory they should be the same, but in practice they won't be. This is, as many other things are, due to iPhone API limitations. In Night mode we run OIS (to enable longer exposure times without camera shake blur), which needs to be captured in brackets of up to 8 photos in a row. After a bracket is captured, there is a small delay (about 400ms I believe) before the next bracket can be captured. So you will likely see a gap in motion as you do that. This is easy to test with the Long Exposure feature and light trails. Not sure why this was Apple's design choice for the camera, but it is impossible to circumvent. We can either capture 1 frame in a bracket, so at least the gaps are uniform, but that would be super slow. Or we can capture without OIS, but then we couldn't use longer exposure times.
@BorisTheBlade Could you elaborate more on the brackets? Does it work like in my example as followed: Set to 1/30s 15 frames, but only 8 is allowed in one "bracket" whatever that is, then the next 7 will fill up the next bracket then merge during that 1/30s time? I believe apple does similar in stock camera app as you mentioned that they stacked for example in 30s, stacking 10 images at 3s intervals or something like that versus stacking at exactly 30s per frame. I believe in google camera, you're actually stacking at that set ss per frame.
How slow are we talking because if that is the case then perhaps that can be useful for something like Astro mode vs the typical handheld mode? I would never want to sacrifice OIS bc of blurryness even if Indigo discard blurry frames.
By @nhan_8084
It's simple - you can capture up to 8 images at 30fps max (maximum sensor readout rate), after which you have to wait for several hundred milliseconds for the next bracket of 8. We can control that so we could do stacking of single frames with some fixed gap in between, but that doesn't work for many use-cases outside of things like astrophotography.
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