Viewfinder Preview

Camera framing preview app

Published by: Adam Fowler

Description

Viewfinder Preview is an iPhone app for previewing camera framing for any combination of camera and lens. Instead of spending all that time setting up your big camera, just choose your desired film/sensor size and focal length in the app and point the iPhone camera at what you want to photo to verify framing. If you are happy with the framing then you can get the big camera out. The app has a large database of camera sensors details and film formats but if the format you desire isn’t there you can add your own custom format. The app is targeted at stills photographers or film makers working in either film or digital. If you don’t have your big camera with you, Viewfinder Preview is still great for photo sketching, location scouting or story boarding.
The app includes
- Customisable menus so you can include the film/sensor formats and focal lengths you care about.
- A fully configurable light meter.
- You can take photos with it, so you have a record of shots you were framing.
- Photos taken with the app include additional data that describe the film format, focal length and lighting meter settings at the time the shot was taken
- Add notes to your photos
- A photo gallery for viewing photos taken with the app which also displays the additional data
- Share images in emails, messages
- Create albums of photos from the same project, trip etc
- Create PDF documents of albums
- Film stock emulation
- Wide angle lens adapter support
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    Yes, Viewfinder Preview is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.

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    Viewfinder Preview is free.

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User Rating

4.83 out of 5

41 ratings in Canada

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Viewfinder Preview Reviews

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clanfraza on

Canada

It’s an awesome app for layout, features and design. I didn’t realize right away though as I’m guessing it’s purely for people that use film equipment to see / compare composition, framing and exposure values etc… (my fault for not getting this bit) Anyway for reference to others. Resolution is appalling and It struggles to even give moderate performance image quality wise. Low light is especially worse and forget using above the 3x lens equivalent from your phone. Again probably an unfair review from me if I’ve got the wrong idea for the use of this app. Regardless of intent I’ve used free apps that have better resolution and performance, how difficult is it to match that for this app then ? It’s Extremely disappointing considering what I paid. Could have been worthy of 5 stars. ☹️

Excellent film previewing app…highly recommended!!!

TomHamp on

Canada

With a complete set of film options, with standard B&W filters and formats, this app can’t be beat!

The app does what it says - a UX Designer needed though

Iain_TO on

Canada

The app does what it says but it’s not very well designed. A UX designer fixing the interface make this an incredible app for all photographers.

Clean and Straight-Forward

dmarcR on

Canada

Does exactly what I was looking for, fairly priced, very clean and minimal, yet intuitive interface. Thanks!

Doesn’t retain info for long

andydduncan on

United States

I loved this app when I first discovered it, but it seems to not retain the notes I enter for long. I made several photographs and added all of my notes I wished to make and a few weeks later when I was ready to develop my film, all of those notes were gone. I had about 10 sheets of film that needed different development, but that info was gone. I decided to just develop them all together for a Normal development time, resulting in some getting too much development and others not enough.

Awesome App

MMdad530 on

United States

I find this very useful.

Needs some tweaking maybe?

Grants opinion on

United States

Updated my stars to 3 will go to 5 if fully implemented. Need 6x17 and other aspect ratios like 65x24 On our fuji 50s. Limited by aspect ratios. Also when using non full frame are the focal lengths for the sensor chosen or Fframe equivalent? Tutorial? A video online could be helpful

this is the app I search for so long

gantadanca on

United States

although I spend some money on it but in fact this is the app I want for a long time. when I was taking film pictures I need a app can preview the lightmeter sets so much .not mentioned it also can record it to the gallery. one little suggestion: maybe we can add a config to choose whether the config automatically show on the side of pictures.

Wow

JayGuilmain on

United States

This app is great only wish that they had more film to use like sims til xx bw other than that it’s great

Perfect

Sco'rt on

United States

This is exactly what I was looking for while learning medium format shooting.

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