Prolens 1.1

Prolens 1.1 adds capture modes, real zoom, and a camera that adapts to the phone it runs on.

Install

1. Download Prolens-1.1.apk below.
2. Open it on your phone. If Android asks, allow installing from this source.

It installs over 1.0 and needs Android 7.0 or later.

What's new in 1.1

• Capture modes, in a strip above the shutter like a phone camera. Each phone only shows the modes it can do.
  • Night: uses the phone maker's own night mode where there is one, or a Prolens long exposure where there isn't.
  • Micro and Macro: the closest-focusing lens at 4× and 2×, with focus peaking, a focus slider and focus stacking.
  • Slo-mo: 120 or 240 fps, at the rates the phone really supports.
  • Pano: a guided sweep that shoots when you're level and on target, then stitches the panorama on the phone.
  • Templates: 12 shot templates, from headshot to street, with a silhouette to line up and the settings to match. You can also save your own presets.
• Zoom:
  • Lens chips built from the phone's real zoom range, including the ultra-wide where apps can use it.
  • Pinch to zoom, and drag the chips for a fine zoom ruler.
  • The HUD shows the zoomed focal length.
• Focus: tap to focus and meter, or press and hold to lock both.
• Front camera.
• Clean framing: swipe up or down on the preview to hide the tools and the HUD.
• What this phone can do: the Gear tab lists its lenses and their roles, and whether it supports Night, slo-mo and manual control.
• Toolkit page: Calculators, Light, Coach and Gear are one tap from the viewfinder.
• Saved settings: your viewfinder settings, gear and location now stay between launches.

Known limits

• On tablets and foldables, Android 16 ignores the portrait lock, so the viewfinder layout isn't tuned for those screens yet.
• Manual camera controls depend on the phone. Controls a phone doesn't support are greyed out.

SHA-256 of the APK: 274ed215e75ce7846e6c5542add1a66cddfbb17723d9f94b2d82130952bf5117

Prolens 1.0

The first release of Prolens, a pro camera and photography toolkit for Android.

Install

1. Download Prolens-1.0.apk below.
2. Open it on your phone. If Android asks, allow installing from this source.

It needs Android 7.0 or later and asks for camera access. Location access is optional; it's only used for golden-hour times where you are.

What's in 1.0

• Viewfinder:
  • 23 composition grids: thirds, phi, golden spirals, golden triangles, pyramid, triangle grid, diagonal method, dynamic symmetry, armature, perspective and 3D grids, and safe areas.
  • Level and camera-angle label, histogram, clipping warnings, focus peaking, zebras, false colour and waveform.
  • A lens frame that matches your real camera and lens, the sun's path, and a 3D ground grid.
  • Manual ISO, shutter, white balance, EV and focus, on phones that allow them.
  • Aspect ratios (1:1, 4:5, 3:2, 16:9, 2.39:1) that crop the saved photo.
  • Camera-style rotation and a full-screen view.
• Calculators: depth of field and hyperfocal distance, background blur, exposure and Sunny 16, ND filter with a timer, shutter speed, astro (500 and NPF rules), field of view, and flash.
• Light: golden and blue hour for any city or your location, in its own time zone, plus the day timeline, sun path, sun direction, shadow length and the moon.
• Coach: 15 genre recipes you can apply to the viewfinder, camera angles and shot sizes, lighting patterns, and composition principles.
• Gear: your camera bodies and lenses, with crop factor, circle of confusion, pixel pitch and diffraction limit.

Photos are saved to Pictures/Prolens.

Known limits

• Settings and custom gear aren't saved between launches yet.
• On tablets and foldables, Android 16 ignores the portrait lock, so the viewfinder layout isn't tuned for those screens yet.
• Manual camera controls depend on the phone. Controls a phone doesn't support are greyed out.

SHA-256 of the APK: d1cb1834e1c44dbdac9ef292bed718708adf922e833b106a65dbdd4f6af91dbe