PhotonCam: Pro Camera & Editor

Thanks for choosing PhotonCam. This update brings the following improvements: - HEIF photos are now saved with 10-bit color depth by default, for smoother gradients and richer detail. You can turn this off in Settings if you prefer smaller files. - The photo info now shows the bit depth of each non-RAW image. This version also includes other minor bug fixes and refinements.

PhotonCam now has a new app icon. This version also includes other minor bug fixes.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version: - Support pressing Camera Control to return to camera in any pages. You can turn it off in the other camera Settings page. - Support setting Tint in Camera. You can also use Camera Control to adjust. - Support zooming for Front camera. - You can now clean up all unused imported LUTs in the app settings. - Allow you to set a default album when entering the Gallery page. This’s useful if you mainly use PhotonCam as an editor and would like to choose photos from the other albums you create instead of the PhotonCam album. - Introduce app analysis, providing insights into your usage to help us continuously improve your experience. You can disable this in Settings → Others → App Analysis. - Now when you select “Pick Another image to edit” in the image editor, the photo picker will be shown directly, helping you to select a new photo faster. - Add Korean and Spanish support. - Now you can more easily switch the filter list by the filter tag you created in the editor. - More bug fixes and improvements.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version: - Support pressing Camera Control to return to camera in any pages. You can turn it off in the other camera Settings page. - Support setting Tint in Camera. You can also use Camera Control to adjust. - Support zooming for Front camera. - You can now clean up all unused imported LUTs in the app settings. - Allow you to set a default album when entering the Gallery page. This's useful if you mainly use PhotonCam as an editor and would like to choose photos from the other albums you create instead of the PhotonCam album. - Introduce app analysis, providing insights into your usage to help us continuously improve your experience. You can disable this in Settings → Others → App Analysis. - Now when you select "Pick Another image to edit" in the image editor, the photo picker will be shown directly, helping you to select a new photo faster. - Add Korean and Spanish support. - Now you can more easily switch the filter list by the filter tag you created in the editor. - More bug fixes and improvements.

Thanks for choosing PhotonCam. This version addressed the issue where some LOG-based LUTs won't have a correct look in Photo Extension.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version: - Fixed an issue where focus peaking would appear in portrait mode when it's configured to be enabled in Manual Focus only. Portrait mode doesn't support manual focus. - Addressed an issue where sometimes the edge pixels were semi-transparent for photos with Blurred Frame applied.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version: - Tapping the date/time in the image detail view will also open the photo info sheet. - Preserves favorite and tag info when exporting filters, so your organization carries over when sharing. - Supports personalizing file naming in the app settings. You can reorder or hide naming components. - Improvements to the cropping view in the editor: better performance and displays the photo with all adjustments applied. After leaving the cropping mode in the editor, the image will be reloaded with full size to reflect the cropping area. - Fixed an issue where a filter name containing "/" could cause problems. - Fixed an issue where Color Calibration wouldn't be saved when editing a filter from the filter detail page. - More bug fixes and improvements.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version: - Supports selecting input and output color space for your custom LUT. You can find this feature in the photo editor (Adjustments → LUT), Filter Management (multi-select filters and set them in batch), Batch Import filters page, filter editing page, and the camera app when creating a new filter with "+". - The input color space indicates the expected color space of the LUT. The app now has multiple built-in sRGB Gamma → LOG color space presets, letting you use LUTs developed for LOG-based images. Current supported list is: Apple Log, F-Log, F-Log2, L-Log, V-Log, C-Log, C-Log2, C-Log3, S-Log, S-Log2, S-Log3, N-Log, D-Log. - The output color space indicates the output color after applying the LUT. By default it is Display P3, but some LUTs may be in Rec.709, which has a different gamma from sRGB or Display P3. - When creating a new filter, the default filter name will be the Cube name if any cube is selected. - Fixed an issue where favorited filters won’t be displayed when editing the filter list. - Supported limiting the output captured / processed photo to 24MP max. - Supported sharing DNG files only for HEIF + RAW photos. Multiple-select photos in the gallery page to begin. - You can now shift the center of the contrast S-curve toward shadows or highlights, giving you finer control over where contrast is applied. - New LC0 filter. - More bug fixes and improvements.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version: - Supports selecting input and output color space for your custom LUT. You can find this feature in the photo editor (Adjustments → LUT), Filter Management (multi-select filters and set them in batch), Batch Import filters page, filter editing page, and the camera app when creating a new filter with "+". - The input color space indicates the expected color space of the LUT. The app now has multiple built-in sRGB Gamma → LOG color space presets, letting you use LUTs developed for LOG-based images. Current supported list is: Apple Log, F-Log, F-Log2, L-Log, V-Log, C-Log, C-Log2, C-Log3, S-Log, S-Log2, S-Log3, N-Log, D-Log. - The output color space indicates the output color after applying the LUT. By default it is Display P3, but some LUTs may be in Rec.709, which has a different gamma from sRGB or Display P3. - When creating a new filter, the default filter name will be the Cube name if any cube is selected. - Fixed an issue where favorited filters won’t be displayed when editing the filter list. - Supported limiting the output captured / processed photo to 24MP max. - Supported sharing DNG files only for HEIF + RAW photos. Multiple-select photos in the gallery page to begin. - You can now shift the center of the contrast S-curve toward shadows or highlights, giving you finer control over where contrast is applied. - New LC0 filter.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version: - Added a new Dehaze effect. You can find it in the editor - adjustments - effects - others. - Supported adjusting saturation for Calibration adjustments (editor - adjustments - Calibration). - Added 3 new P-series filters, simulating the Polaroid film. - Optimized HDR effect when generating from Bayer RAW. - Fixed an issue where icons in Frame can't be displayed in Photo Extension. - Fixed an issue where Live Photo won't play automatically when using Keyboard to navigate between photos on iPad or Mac. - Fixed an issue causing the adjustments may mismatch with the ones from Camera Control. - Optimized some animations. - Removed support for iOS 17.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version: - Fix the issue where focus peaking won’t work if photos are saving in DNG only mode. - Supports showing Exposure Time and ISO in Auto Mode. - Supports Japanese.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version brings some bug fixes and improvements. Note that it’s recommended to upgraded to iOS 18 and later. Support for iOS 17 will be ended soon.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version brings some bug fixes and improvements.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version: - Supported editing Temperature and Tint in the Re-Develop RAW page. - The Temperature and Tint sliders now can be tapped to adjust values (in camera view or in the Re-Develop RAW page). - Added a toggle to automatically apply Edits when editing Original version in the editor. - Fixed an issue where photo output by RAW cleanup feature won’t have HDR effect (for those photos that already have HDR metadata). - Fixed an issue where the shutter button could become unresponsive when capturing Bayer RAW photos in rapid succession.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This new version: - Added support for using the JPEG-XL (lossy/lossless)compression for ProRAW. You can set this in the RAW settings. Using JPEG-XL can help reduce the DNG file size. Saving JPEG-XL requires iOS 18 or above, while viewing and editing require iOS 17 and macOS 14 or above. - A new dedicated RAW Process settings page has been added. New settings: Local Tone Mapping amount for ProRAW and 3 new ones for Bayer RAW: baseline exposure, global tone mapping, and shadow bias. By default, Bayer RAW will now use low baseline exposure to give you a more natural look. - Now you can re-develop both ProRAW and Bayer RAW in the editor, with some new settings. - Also, now you can set the ProRAW edit settings the same as the camera in the editor settings. - For Bayer RAW, when you enable HDR and enable generate HEIF/JPEG from DNG, a HDR Gain Map will be calculated from RAW and be attached to the HEIF/JPEG. You can disable this in the app settings. Also, the HDR effect has also been improved. - Added a new Hybrid RAW mode: use Bayer RAW for non-zooming lens and ProRAW for zooming. - Long-pressing the photo in the gallery will let you choose which version to edit. Also, you can preview the Original and Edited versions of the photo. - In the edit mode of the filter management page, now you can filter filters by favorite state. - Fix an issue where calibration adjustments can’t be saved in a custom filter. - Fix an issue where filter strength can’t be pasted from edits. - Photos processed by pasting edits or re-generated from DNG can now be added to the “PhotonCam Edited” album if you enable it. - Updated 2026 and Apple horse-year logos in Frame customizations. - This version increased the min version to iOS 17.2. Support for iOS 17 series will be ended after the upcoming versions. - More bug fixes and improvements.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This new version: - Added support for using the JPEG-XL (lossy/lossless)compression for ProRAW. You can set this in the RAW settings. Using JPEG-XL can help reduce the DNG file size. Saving JPEG-XL requires iOS 18 or above, while viewing and editing require iOS 17 and macOS 14 or above. - A new dedicated RAW Process settings page has been added. New settings: Local Tone Mapping amount for ProRAW and 3 new ones for Bayer RAW: baseline exposure, global tone mapping, and shadow bias. By default, Bayer RAW will now use low baseline exposure to give you a more natural look. - Now you can re-develop both ProRAW and Bayer RAW in the editor, with some new settings. - Also, now you can set the ProRAW edit settings the same as the camera in the editor settings. - For Bayer RAW, when you enable HDR and enable generate HEIF/JPEG from DNG, a HDR Gain Map will be calculated from RAW and be attached to the HEIF/JPEG. You can disable this in the app settings. Also, the HDR effect has also been improved. - Added a new Hybrid RAW mode: use Bayer RAW for non-zooming lens and ProRAW for zooming. - Long-pressing the photo in the gallery will let you choose which version to edit. Also, you can preview the Original and Edited versions of the photo. - In the edit mode of the filter management page, now you can filter filters by favorite state. - Fix an issue where calibration adjustments can’t be saved in a custom filter. - Fix an issue where filter strength can’t be pasted from edits. - Photos processed by pasting edits or re-generated from DNG can now be added to the “PhotonCam Edited” album if you enable it. - Updated 2026 and Apple horse-year logos in Frame customizations. - This version increased the min version to iOS 17.2. Support for iOS 17 series will be ended after the upcoming versions.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. The new version brings some new features: - In the filter management page, when entering the edit mode, now you can find your filters by selecting multiple filter tags. - For iPhone 17 Pro series, now you can use interactive zoom to scale up to 3x when using 4x telephoto camera. The operation is the same as zooming on wide camera. - Now you can select background blurring effect when editing a Frame: gaussian, bokeh, zoom and motion blur types are supported. Also, you can now set the bottom padding of the content in a Frame. Two new Frames have also been added leveraging those feature. - Added a new red RICHO logo in Frame. - When editing Frame from the photo editor, now the image will be the one applied with your filter and adjustments. - When entering the editor, a new hint will be displayed showing the loaded photo version. - Support select and batch favorite/unfavorite multiple photos in the gallery. - Added a new A5 filter. - Optimized UI of Liquid Glass.

Happy New Year 2026! This update brings several improvements: - You can now choose the date stamp format when adding date stamps to photos. - Updated font styles for some built-in frames (for new installations). - After you press the shutter button, the animation now finishes as soon as the exposure is complete, allowing you to take the next photo immediately. Previously, you had to wait until the system finished processing the photo before you could shoot again. This change helps you capture more moments without waiting. Please note that it is still recommended to keep the app open until all photos are saved. - When the Non-Destructive Save option is enabled in Advanced Settings, photos with no filters or effects applied will no longer be saved as edited versions (you won’t see a Revert button in the Photos app). This helps save storage space. - Other improvements and bug fixes.

As we wrap up 2025, this update focuses on stability and polish. Thank you for being part of our journey this year — more refinements are coming in 2026.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version: - Made some improvements to the fade and other adjustments. - The focus indicator when choosing the focus point in the Depth Editor now shows in HDR white when HDR is enabled, helping you see the focus point clearly. - When you are outdoors in bright sunlight, the system may clip HDR content in the editor. In this case, the app automatically falls back to SDR mode. - Upgrading from the previous version of the app will not reset the hidden status of the filters anymore. - In the photo frame, when you use the Filter Name field for your custom frame and the filter you use is your custom filter, only the filter name you customized before will be shown. - Added the Reddit entrance in the about page. You can send feedback, discuss with others, or post your photos captured by PhotonCam in this subreddit. - Added a new Lock Screen Widget to launch the app without switching camera lenses. This is helpful if you just want to go back to the app from the background. - Fixed an issue where dragging and dropping the same image file a second time to the app won’t open the editor. - Slightly increased the launch speed. - Photos captured by the camera will be processed in queue, with a little indicator showing the processing count. - Other bug fixes.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version: - Supported SLR flip. You can enable this via the top-right auxiliary settings in the camera view. Photos captured in this mode will be flipped horizontally and vertically, and will be useful when attaching some external camera lens. - Added a new A3 filter, featuring a vintage look with some color-gradings, vignettes and grain effect. - Addressed an exposure issue on iPhone 17 series. - Other bug fixes and improvements.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This build brings some new features: - The noise/grain feature is completely revamped, supporting dynamic grain effect as well as letting you adjust the grain size and choose to use Colored Grain. - Introducing the new Halation effect, joining the revamped grain effect to create a film-look. - Added a new font and a new color to the date stamp. - Add a new toggle to post the black & white effect, so that the photo will stay monochromatic no matter how you edit your photo. - When you connect your iPhone to the external display via screen cast, it will show the camera preview as well as the histogram in the external display, making it an external monitor. - In the low-light condition, it will automatically use the quality-first fusion prioritization to improve low-light quality. If you turn on the “Disable Fusion to de-sharpen”, this won’t work. - For sliders, now you can tap the track to set the value to that position. Note: as always, you can tap the number to the left of the slider to reset the value. - When you enter the editor, your last used panel (Filters/Adjustments/Frame/HDR) will be automatically selected, helping you tweak the same editing across different photos quickly. - Addressed some UI bugs introduced in iOS 26.1. - Other general improvements and bug fixes.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This build brings some new features: - The noise/grain feature is completely revamped, supporting dynamic grain effect as well as letting you adjust the grain size and choose to use Colored Grain. - Introducing the new Halation effect, joining the revamped grain effect to create a film-look. - Added a new font and a new color to the date stamp. - Add a new toggle to post the black & white effect, so that the photo will stay monochromatic no matter how you edit your photo. - When you connect your iPhone to the external display via screen cast, it will show the camera preview as well as the histogram in the external display, making it an external monitor. - In the low-light condition, it will automatically use the quality-first fusion prioritization to improve low-light quality. If you turn on the “Disable Fusion to de-sharpen”, this won’t work. - For sliders, now you can tap the track to set the value to that position. Note: as always, you can tap the number to the left of the slider to reset the value. - When you enter the editor, your last used panel (Filters/Adjustments/Frame/HDR) will be automatically selected, helping you tweak the same editing across different photos quickly. - Addressed some UI bugs introduced in iOS 26.1. - Other general improvements and bug fixes.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This build brings some new features: - The noise/grain feature is completely revamped, supporting dynamic grain effect as well as letting you adjust the grain size and choose to use Colored Grain. - Introducing the new Halation effect, joining the revamped grain effect to create a film-look. - Added a new font and a new color to the date stamp. - Add a new toggle to post the black & white effect, so that the photo will stay monochromatic no matter how you edit your photo. - When you connect your iPhone to the external display via screen cast, it will show the camera preview as well as the histogram in the external display, making it an external monitor. - In the low-light condition, it will automatically use the quality-first fusion prioritization to improve low-light quality. If you turn on the “Disable Fusion to de-sharpen”, this won’t work. - For sliders, now you can tap the track to set the value to that position. Note: as always, you can tap the number to the left of the slider to reset the value. - When you enter the editor, your last used panel (Filters/Adjustments/Frame/HDR) will be automatically selected, helping you tweak the same editing across different photos quickly. - Addressed some UI bugs introduced in iOS 26.1. - Other general improvements and bug fixes.

Thanks for using PhotonCam. This version brings some improvements: - Refined the UI for exporting a single filter. - Saved photo filenames now always use the 24-hour format, regardless of your device’s settings. - The Software TIFF property in saved photos now includes the name PhotonCam. - You can now zoom in further in the photo editor. - Improved accuracy when setting the depth focus point by tapping in the photo editor. - Fixed UI issue in the aspect ratio picker in the editor. - Some optimizations for the RAW cleanup feature. - Fixed the layout issue on iPhone SE. - Fixed the issue where rotating your iPhone when viewing images will reset the zoom scale.