Moment has long offered a simple camera app to go along with its custom smartphone lenses. But now, the company has overhauled that app into something much more capable, allowing you to access full manual options and have more control over your phone’s camera. The new “Pro” features are available as a $2 in-app purchase on iOS or as part of the flat $2 price for the app on Android. Buying them allows you to lock in ISO, shutter speed, white balance, and other manual controls. The app also allows you to shoot RAW and use the shutter button on Moment’s phone case. Moment started over to make its app more capable Moment co-founder Marc Barros says the app has been rebuilt “from the ground up” to be faster and more capable. The company hired a small engineering team to work on it nine months ago, he said, and they “basically started over” by making a new version of the Moment app that they can build upon in the future. There are a ton of options out there if you want a manual camera app, and this first version of Moment’s take on a pro camera app likely won’t meet everyone’s needs. But as an app for people who are buying into Moment’s lens ecosystem, it makes sense to add more and more powerful features since those users are probably looking for them.<doc-sep>Apple dominates smartphone industry profits with iPhone X Watch Now top picks The 10 best smartphones right now It's easy to find a great phone today. In fact, current flagship devices are so good you really don't need to be replacing them every year. Read More Smartphone cameras today are excellent and apps loaded on your phones get better each year. Moment has several lens options, including the wide angle one I purchased earlier this year, and also has a mobile app for iOS and Android that offer more control than most default apps. The Apple iPhone battles top Android phones for the best camera, but most every phone over $600 now has a camera that gets the job done in auto mode. You can produce even better output with some practice and more control over your camera settings. The new Moment app for iOS and Android provides full manual control so you can adjust exposure, shutter speed, focus, ISO, white balance, image format, and more. Most Android phones have manual control options in their respective smartphone app, but Apple does not provide this control on the iPhone. Thus, the new Moment app really shines for iPhone users who finally have an enhanced manual control experience. The app even uses Apple's 3D Touch technology to make the in app shutter button a dual stage shutter. Image: Moment You can purchase the iOS app for $2.99 and the Android version for $1.99. You can also try some of the basic features for free. Moment stated that the camera app has the following features: Full Manual experience : Control exposure, ISO, shutter speed, focus, and white balance independently with easy to use sliders and double taps to reset. : Control exposure, ISO, shutter speed, focus, and white balance independently with easy to use sliders and double taps to reset. 3D Touch Shutter : Control your shutter like a DSLR camera. Using Apple's 3D Touch technology, we've brought the shooting experience of a pro shutter button to the touch screen. Half press to focus, full press to capture using the in-app shutter button. : Control your shutter like a DSLR camera. Using Apple's 3D Touch technology, we've brought the shooting experience of a pro shutter button to the touch screen. Half press to focus, full press to capture using the in-app shutter button. RAW + TIFF : Shoot photos in RAW format for better editing, or TIFF for high-quality printing. : Shoot photos in RAW format for better editing, or TIFF for high-quality printing. HEIF and HEVC : Seamless support for the latest Apple file formats across photo and video. : Seamless support for the latest Apple file formats across photo and video. Dual Lens Control : Manually control which side of the dual lens you want to shoot with so you can use Moment lenses over either one. : Manually control which side of the dual lens you want to shoot with so you can use Moment lenses over either one. Precise Video : Change your resolution and frame rate on screen, without digging into a settings menu. : Change your resolution and frame rate on screen, without digging into a settings menu. Live Histogram : Get your exposure right every time. : Get your exposure right every time. Split Focus and Exposure : Take control of tricky lighting scenarios. : Take control of tricky lighting scenarios. Auto Video Stabilization: Make your videos buttery smooth. I'm pleased to see the dual lens control so I can choose which camera to use with my wide-angle lens I bought earlier this year. There is an option in the Moment app to choose which Moment lens you have attached to your iPhone. As smartphones reach parity, I am now spending time diving deeper into mobile photography with manual mode, gimbal usage, video creation, and more. Moment's app and lenses help me do more with my smartphones.<doc-sep>
As I discovered a week ago while trying to find a third-party camera app for Android with manual controls, almost everything in the Play Store is pretty bad. But Moment, the company known for its smartphone camera lenses, is here to fix that with the ‘Pro Camera’ app. The Moment Pro Camera app offers almost everything a professional photographer would want out of a smartphone camera app. These features include the ability to shoot in RAW, see a live histogram, and the option to manually adjust the shutter speed, ISO, exposure, focus point, and white balance. And to go along with the lenses that the company sells, Moment includes a section in the app where you can select which lens you have attached to the phone. It’s not entirely clear if the app corrects for any image warping, but by selecting one of the options, it adds the lens info to the image in the app’s gallery. This makes it easy to look back and remember which lens you used for a specific shot. And remember the Pixel Visual Core that only a handful of apps took advantage of? Well, Moment tells us that it’s currently working on integrating the chip and will add HDR+ in the future. Make sure you check out Moment’s video embedded below as it takes a more in-depth look at the Pro Camera app. Just a fair warning, though, that they primarily focus on the iOS app which does currently offer several features not yet found on the Android app. Unfortunately, one of the missing features is the ability to shoot video. If you’re interested in downloading Moment’s Pro Camera app for yourself, you can purchase it right now for Android from the Play Store for $1.99. The iOS version is also available for $2.99. 9to5Google’s Take I’ve personally been using Moment’s Pro Camera app for the last several days and can honestly say that it’s replaced the stock camera app for me. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More. Check out 9to5Google on YouTube for more news: