Reciprocity Timer

Super hard to change settings and understand the interface. Some things don’t scale on my iPhone so the information is cut.

It is a good app for us photographers who need this kind of service out in the field. But there is a problem with exporting the info and when I have told the company that there is a problem I don't get any response. Nor it seems to be an upgrade to fix the problems, and that lowers the rating of this app.

This app has pretty much everything you need for shooting film and want to take notes of your camera settings. You choose a film, a camera and a lens. Apply exposure compensation and filter, if any, and the app gives you the exposure time with reciprocity failure for that film. You get a countdown timer which you can start by voice if you want to, (using the mic). Nice, and pretty much straight forward. If you upgrade to the ”professional version” via the in app purchase, you get access to some killer functionality. This is where the app really starts to shine. To remember everything about the image, you add a note. Do this by taking a snapshot of the scene with the phone camera. All data about your chosen camera, lens and other settings settings are added. You can then click the image you just took and set zone system details, add info about development, (push or pull), GPS coordinates and notes. Notes can be typed in ny hand or recorded on the microphone. The whole note can then be saved to dropbox or e-mailed in various formats. I have tried a couple of apps for reciprocity failure and a few others for note taking. This one is far better than anything I have tried before. The things I feel need development have mostly to do with user interface. - If you have large fingers it will be hard to hit the correct icon for various functions, The icons are small and close to each other. - Some functions are either buggy, or I am not smart enough to understand them. For example, to add a location to a note, you can tap the compass symbol. That takes you into the map app, but I can’t figure out how to get back to Reciprovity without just switching app the ordinary way. - I also have not been able to get the voice activation of countdown to work. It has probably something to do with my phone settings. - The interface could be improved. For example by using colors in a better way. Today it’s mostly B/W. - All text and symbols are small. A very nice addition would be a ”large text” mode, so people with less than perfect vision could more easily see. It’s easy to see that the app is written by a photographer (with perfect eye sight). It fulfills everything I can think of, and the functions are implemented the way you’d like them to be when you’re out shooting. Recommended for all film shooters.

Very impressed with this app after the last upgrade. Covers a comprehensive list of different films, a timer and is very convenient to use. Highly recommended

Paid $1.99 for an app that doesn’t allow one to change most of the settings and while the instructions state that an upgrade to the pro version can be purchased within the app, I’m unable to find a link/button within the app to do so. Paying for apps is something i am happy to do, knowing that it normally supports better products, but either charge the full price up front, for a fully working app or make certain that the upgrade link is available within the app as mentioned in the manual.

As all of my lenses have speeds that are NOT true to their stated times, that had cause many years of frustration in attempts to get good exposures. I had purchased a shutter speed timer, and hand written the speed averages for each, but attempting to then mentally calculate exposure reciprocity? It was a nightmare. Then I hear of “Reciprocity Timer”. Now with the App enhancement of being able to enter my own shutter speeds, I have consistently taken good exposure photos time and time again.

Seems like a useful app, but I may never really know. The text on screen is way too tiny to read. Does the designer intend for us to use a lupe??

You pay $1.99 only to find out you need to upgrade for $9.99 to use all the features.

Keeps crashing or deleting custom settings. Tried contacting developer and got no response. UPDATE: app is working great now after a conversation with the developer. Sent him screen recordings and data to help him figure it out. App update was done in a few hours, approved by Apple and downloaded to my phone a couple hours later. It’s already helped me. Cheers.

Have you guys actually used this app? Or did you just chuck it onto the App Store without even testing it?? Because that’s what it seems like for sure. I have yet to use a feature that doesn’t have bugs; if it even works at all. Did you notice the keyboard won’t minimize unless you have a particular text box in focus? Or that you have to select each film holder you create as you add them else the entire list will peace out into another dimension when you do select one? I could go on for an hour but I’m not your beta tester.. I’m unfortunately your customer. You need to take a serious look at your process.