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For those with an iPhone that includes the third (telephoto) lens, what app/strategy are you using to be able to select a single lens and set it to the telephoto? Would love to hear some of your experiences with different apps. I'm a camera and digiscoping beginner and want simple/auto controls mostly at this time, but need to be able to lock the telephoto lens and can't do it right now. At this point even locking the 1x lens would work, even though it leaves a scope silhouette. This time of year I'm shooting the moon (literally) and birds, but game will be very soon.
For those figuring out what this thread is about, in order to effectively digiscope you need to choose just one lens to center to your optics, whether binoculars or spotting scope, especially if you are using an adapter. The iPhone 11 Pro Max native camera app lets you touch .5x to select the ultrawide lens, 1x for wide, and 2x for telephoto; but often when you press 2x, the iPhone actually uses the wide (1x) lens with 2x digital zoom, rather than the 2x optical lens (telephoto), and there is no setting in the native camera app to stop that. It's really frustrating when it switches from the 2x telephoto lens to the wide lens with 2x digital zoom right before you are about to snap the pic, and prevents you from getting the shot at all.
A couple of old posts mention the Pro Cam app (but don't mention which, as there are a couple of different vendors selling "Pro Cam" such as Pro Camera by Moment, ProCamera by Cocologics, and ProCam by Samer Azzam) or Raw+, but there doesn't seem to be a newer dedicated thread to solving this problem or reviews of how different apps work for digiscoping hunters.
For those figuring out what this thread is about, in order to effectively digiscope you need to choose just one lens to center to your optics, whether binoculars or spotting scope, especially if you are using an adapter. The iPhone 11 Pro Max native camera app lets you touch .5x to select the ultrawide lens, 1x for wide, and 2x for telephoto; but often when you press 2x, the iPhone actually uses the wide (1x) lens with 2x digital zoom, rather than the 2x optical lens (telephoto), and there is no setting in the native camera app to stop that. It's really frustrating when it switches from the 2x telephoto lens to the wide lens with 2x digital zoom right before you are about to snap the pic, and prevents you from getting the shot at all.
A couple of old posts mention the Pro Cam app (but don't mention which, as there are a couple of different vendors selling "Pro Cam" such as Pro Camera by Moment, ProCamera by Cocologics, and ProCam by Samer Azzam) or Raw+, but there doesn't seem to be a newer dedicated thread to solving this problem or reviews of how different apps work for digiscoping hunters.