Since I mean Fuji X-E1 I do it almost every day, but I rarely do it anymore Photos with the iPhone. I discovered quite by chance that the so-called "black" filter on the iPhone camera under iOS7 can create a pretty cool black and white image. Hard contrast and rich black - just the way I like it.
Well – and then I was sitting on the plane in Copenhagen and taxiing towards the runway. I saw that we were driving relatively close to the typical yellow arrows in gray weather. I wanted to capture this color contrast photographically. I quickly pulled my iPhone out of my pocket and pressed the shutter button. With the shutter lag, it's not so easy to get a technically perfect image from a moving aircraft. Of course I didn't succeed either and I only had one chance. Disappointingly enough, I then saw that I had still activated the filter in the iOS7 camera. An image with yellow arrows in a gray world makes very little sense in black and white.
So I packed up my iPhone again with a sobering shrug of the shoulders. Another chapter in the category of "the best picture you didn't get". OK, later I discovered that I can reset the filter or apply a different filter. But only to the existing picture.
Why am I writing about it here? Because I set the Dropbox app on my iPhone to automatically sync my pictures to my Dropbox on WiFi. And now something surprising comes – at least for me: on the dropbox The images are automatically available again without filters and (in my case) in color. So I have the iOS7 filter image on my iPhone and the actual original image in my Dropbox.
That's why I can now show you the picture I took from the window of an airplane in color and black and white!
Yes, it's not a photographic highlight, but it's certainly enough to illustrate an article about a filter in the iOS7 camera. However, I don't know if this isn't a bug that will be removed in iOS7.0.1...
Both pictures, by the way OOC – out of cam 🙂
It's almost like shooting JPG and RAW at the same time :)
Almost …
I find this picture more stylish in black and white than in color. 😛
You can 🙂
Hi Stefan,
Thanks for the tip – I just tried it out and you can actually change/remove filters from photos taken with iOS7 in the photo manager. So it looks like Apple is simply writing down the settings data (similar to XMP)… Pretty ingenious and I don't think it's a bug – I think non-destructive editing is a great feature!
Best regards,
Lucky 🙂
Yes, change and remove – I wrote that too. But you can't save it multiple times with different filters, only one image at a time - which would support your XMP explanation. 🙂
Suddenly all the photos are black and white - I have no idea how that happened - I can't get them back in color - who can help me?
Click on the three color circles in the camera app at the bottom right
stays black and white... lots of boxes come up - no matter what I press it stays black and white...
I also suddenly have a lot of other features: time lapse square and pano - since today... the feature that switched between black white and color is no longer there... can Apple just change things wildly without my ok???? That is absurd…
The whole screen of the iPhone is suddenly all in black and white... no idea what happened...
Take a look at the accessibility settings
I tried everything... very strange...