Moment’s new smartphone camera app focuses on giving maximum control
Jul 12, 2018
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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Moment, the company most famous for its smartphone lenses has started branching out into smartphone software. Their newly launched app, MomentPro, is now available for both Android and iOS. It’s focused on giving the user more choice, offering complete manual control over exposure, focus and white balance, as well as a couple of other neat tricks.
Photographers can shoot in RAW, TIFF or JPG for stills and HEIF and HEVC for video. You can easily change framerate and mode from the main screen, and you can quickly flick between the two cameras on dual camera phones. Of course, you get full manual control over ISO, shutter speed, focus and white balance, and separate the focus and exposure points.
Although the basic Moment app has been out for a while, it’s been fairly limited. This is an all new redesign with new manual controls, and it’s finally available on Android.
I’m sure iPhone users will absolutely love this, if they haven’t already bought Camera+ and Filmic Pro. For Android, though, the default camera app supplied with my ASUS ZenFone 5 looks to already do just about everything the MomentPro app does when it comes to shooting stills. It does still offer some benefits for video, though.
The MomentPro app is available now. The iOS version is $2.99 from the Apple App Store, and the Android version is $1.99 from the Google Play Store.
[via DPReview]
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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