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In the course of the app’s evolution many more features have materialised. So I thought why not – learning a brand new platform and programming language is always fun. Of course someone immediately asked if I was going to build an iOS version. In 2 months, after several failed attempts and one broken keyboard, I finally ended up with a minimum viable product and shared it with a small film photo community I am a member of. DevelopmentĪs I am an Android user and my Google developer account has been gathering dust for the last 10 years, that’s where I started last December. Lastly, I wanted to track my rolls – is it still in camera, or in lab, or back from the lab and ready to be digitised, or already digitised and archived? Not the most critical part, but important for bookkeeping. Instead I wanted it to learn my favourite cameras, lenses, films, exposures, etc., and combinations thereof to then help setting up new rolls very quickly or even instantly. Didn’t bother to select a lens? Also fine. Record 37 frames out of 36 exposure film? Fine. I didn’t want a tedious initial setup, instead I wanted the app to stay out of the way, let me do what I want and learn my preferences. I think that’s pretty good workflow integration, or near perfect.
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It imports Film Shots data directly into the catalog and automatically writes Exif on export. I however went one step further and bundled Exiftool into a Lightroom plugin. Exif update then would fit somewhere between Lightroom and Google Photos upload and Phil Harvey’s Exiftool was a natural choice for it. I “scan” my films with a digital camera, process the RAW files in Lightroom then export them and upload to Google Photos to share with my family and friends. My next priority was reasonably good integration with my workflow.
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I did however want to see them all at a glance, without having to open each shot. I wasn’t going to do it for absolutely every shot, more like “anchors” every once in a while to help reconstruct the sequence, so speed wasn’t a priority here. To help me recognise my films when they are back from the lab, I wanted to be able to take “reference photos” either for the entire roll or for individual frames. My absolute priority was a “one click” recording of camera, film, time and location without unlocking the phone, so all design decisions were made with this in mind. So after trying all the apps that I could find, including Exif Notes that Babak Farshchian recently wrote about, and finding that none of them ticks my boxes I decided to roll my own. I like going back to my photos and looking for memories – “Ah, yes, that was a walk we took thought the historic town centre after a lovely lunch, and that one was us eating ice cream with sea views the next day”.Īs we will see later, I ended up making it very easy to record exposure too upon multiple requests from my beta testers, even though for me personally it wasn’t a priority. What I did miss bitterly was metadata – what camera it was shot with and on what film and, more importantly, location and time of the shots. It creates a suspense and that happy delight when I get the developed films back from lab and the pictures pop out at me as I lift them to light. I am happy using the Sunny 16 rule, in fact I enjoy it. Now a popular choice for a film photographer-programmer is a light meter app, however metering wasn’t a pressing issue for me. Similarly to Barry Carr, who’s Analog Memo was featured on these pages, I am an avid film photographer and a software engineer, so naturally my first app was going to be about film photography. I hope you will love my new app ‘Film Shots’ – it lets you log your data right from the Lock screen and integrates with Lightroom.