Nightly 3.0.148

It's been a while since 2.60 — 39 nightly builds, to be exact — but we think the wait was worth it. Here's what changed.

The wheel is the whole game now

Click the wheel and a list of controls spins up: filters, exposure, shutter, ISO, focus, zoom. Turn to pick one, click again, and the wheel is yours to adjust. Want to keep it locked on a single control? Tap its icon in the band and it's locked — a pocket bump won't move it after that.

A proper meter

Turn the wheel and a ladder of numbers slides down the edge of the frame. A red needle points at your setting — actually just the tip of one, swinging in from off-screen. Drag the ladder to jump around, tap it to lock the dial, and it tucks itself away after a few seconds.

Zoom reads like a lens barrel now: 1.0 at the bottom, 8.0 at the top, and every framing in between. Pinch to zoom raises the same ladder while your fingers are down.

One press, three files

This one's for anyone who shoots raw but loves a good filter: a single press can now save a DNG, a PNG, and a JPEG of the exact same moment. The DNG is your negative — no filter ever touches it. The PNG carries the filter without a second compression. The roll keeps all three together as one photograph with a little tag in the corner; tap it to flip between them, then send one file or the whole set. Find it under Settings > Frame > Files.

The shutter never waits

Press it and you have the photo. Period. Roll develops it in the background, one at a time, while you're already framing the next shot. See that small bar next to the counter? That's the queue draining. Hold the shutter down and it just keeps shooting.

Remember when three quick shots used to freeze the viewfinder and kill the camera? Not anymore. The queue lives on disk now — take as many as you want.

Exposure by hand

Four modes: auto, shutter priority, ISO priority, and manual. The wheel takes over whichever half of the exposure you hand to it, with the stops sitting right beside the ladder. Settings > Camera > Exposure.

Zone focus

For the street photographers among us: set a distance and shoot. No waiting for autofocus to catch up — it's exactly why Ricoh built snap focus into the GR. Peaking marks the edges that are sharp, and the readout tells you what's in focus in feet or meters.

One caveat: the coarse filters switch it off. Dither 16, 1-Bit, Halftone, and the two Game Boys throw away the detail you'd be judging.

Your photos, on a map

The roll now has a Map tab sitting right beside Camera and Starred, with every shot pinned where you took it — as a thumbnail of the photo itself, not a dot. Turn the wheel to zoom, drag to move around, and tap a stack to lay out everything you shot in that spot along the bottom. Location tagging is on by default — Settings > Camera if you'd rather it wasn't. Select a whole day to send it or delete it in one go. Perfect for clearing out an entire trip.

Ten adjustments

We built a proper editing panel: exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, vibrance, warmth, tint, sharpness, grain, vignette. Each one is a minus, a plus, and a line of plain-English text explaining what it does.

If you remember one thing, make it vibrance — it lifts color and somehow leaves skin alone, which is black magic as far as we're concerned. And if you leave all ten at zero, Roll saves the file exactly as the camera made it. No surprises. Settings > Look > Picture.

Filters, on a real photograph

Settings > Look > View Filters shows the whole catalog on a real photo, rendered live on your phone, one filter per page. Tap to take one off the wheel or put it back. And the big one: filters no longer take your other controls away.

When something breaks, it says so

A small mark in the corner counts camera faults and fades after ten seconds. Tap it to read what happened. If the app crashes, shake your phone twice and it'll send a report with a screenshot. And if a crash happened last time, it reports itself the moment you open the app. We're not just saying "sorry" — we want to actually fix it.

Thanks for sticking with us through all those nightlies. Go shoot something.