Hi Shiva, Quick question. I know you said you don't like in-app processing, but would you be able to share what settings you do use in CameraZoom? Ie. Fixed focus vs macro, etc. Thanks
I try to explain this in some of my notes above, although I haven't read what I wrote in a while. So, please excuse if I wrote this before.
The most important thing, the core, in my mind, of what could make a good mobile image is lack of blur. If you look at mobile images posted on social media there is a lot of blur, no matter what camera, unless there is plenty of sunlight in the image and even then you could get blur in some instances.
So, the anti-shake on the stock app is bogus. The best anti-shake I have come across so far is the one that comes with CameraZoom paid version. It will not take the image, until the image is stable, even if it takes 6 or 7 seconds before it clicks. It will simply not click until camera is steady for about 1/2 second.
So, CameraZoom gives me a solid base, an unblurry mobile image for me to work on in Photoshop.
If you are shooting in low light, you may want to put the camera in Night Mode. There are two night modes. One's called Night Shot, which makes very little difference. The other is under Scene Mode and called "night." That makes a big difference for low light no flash photography, but be warned your image will be very noisy.
The rest is just using the settings in Photoshop to your liking. I also use a separate noise reduction filter (independent software) in PS.
I thought it was quite funny.
