What's coming this fall on the iPhone Pro camera? I don't know but Bayer Cam is ready for it

The TestFlight servers still call it OS X, not macOS - and I think that’s truly beautiful

BitCam 2: a huge update to a 10 year old app, modernizing the entire camera side of things & adding a brand new editor mode - now with Mac and iPad support Looking for some people to try the Testflight and provide feedback! If you're interested, send me your details here: forms.gle/PRNsth8WTvek...

A few variations on the Photos app icon within Icon Composer changing nothing about the layers themselves other than material properties It is remarkable how the tool feels bespoke for this icon 😄 If you're a practicing designer, recreate the things you see & experiment tweaking them in new ways

My theory is that Liquid Glass & Icon Composer started as a design tool solely for the Photos app icon, and people liked messing with it so much they were like screw the consequences let's just built the entire OS design language on top of this

I built Bayer Cam because I'm interested in using my phone camera as a photographic tool, that I can control & understand I get that all this AI stuff that hallucinates the perfect picture of your dreams without any knowledge/effort required is exciting for many, but it's not inspiring at all to me

In French, we say "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"

Perhaps the biggest visual change is that key lighting now comes straight from the top, rather than top left; and the material gets a darkened edge It feels like they've also improved performance, because my device doesn't get as hot running all those stacked effects 😄

Comparing Liquid Glass in 65×24 - iOS 26 vs iOS 27 developer beta 1 Subtle changes, but overall feels good. One big weakness of Liquid Glass in iOS 26 is that it tended to blend in too much on dark backgrounds; it now gets more intrinsic lighting Tinted setting is also much more pronounced now

I just cannot get excited about this vision of human computer interaction where you speak to your device, awkwardly wait 10 seconds, get back a wall of text, repeat

1984: "What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds." 2026: "Hey computer will my shoes fit in my bag"

The main paradigm shifts in human computer interaction: - the mouse - multitouch - staring at your device waiting on a spinner

…but the way HDR content dims non-HDR content around it (eg here side by side with a white page for demonstration), often unpredictably, is a jarring and unpleasant experience For now I think I see it as a powerful tool for the right situations, but still not really appropriate to be on by default

BitCam is 10 years old this week! I've been working on a major update, keeping all the same fundamentals while bringing lots of new, really fun stuff to the app Excited to share more soon!

Added a small multiples view, to quickly examine details and compare side by side how colors get rendered across the whole range of color filters

UI experiment around a unified photographic black and white conversion slider, that lets you balance color weights through a single control Jump points let you quickly compare extremes

Bayer Cam lets you set lower/upper limits for auto shutter speed/ISO So you can limit ISO to your maximum tolerance for noisiness, or shutter speed to something that fits your steadiness for nightshooting Not every camera has this, I wish it were more common...

It’s a little detail, but the preview widget in the Liquid Glass setting should be “real” and respond to touch - missed opportunity there

The best pro tools grow your understanding For Bayer Cam 2, I greatly expanded the user's manual - covering everything from the fundamentals of photographing with the app, to the intricacies of the Bayer RAW format and how camera sensors work.

The best apps do away with all the noise and clutter And transform your iPhone into an entirely new device

One of the night themes that ships with Bayer Cam, inspired by the phosphorescent lume of mechanical watches

Fully modular controls in 65×24 Because every photographer has slightly different preferences when it comes to what controls they use, and how they want them to be arranged

The real test for iOS 27 will be whether Notification Center still looks this goddamn ugly when you drag it down

Bayer Cam v1 was DNG only So predictably, a top request for v2 was the ability to shoot processed formats There's a million ways one can process a RAW file, but I wanted to give people flexibility - so I came up with a compact module that still gives access to all key parameters

There's something so timeless and iconic about the design of Control Panel in System 1 But of course it doesn't scale well when having to add text + new elements as we see in System 3... hence the split design from System 5 And then there's the multi window madness of System 7

One year later, I still don't really know how I feel about Liquid Glass I did my best to implement it in a way that made sense for my apps, bending it to match their design language rather than letting it define the UI Legibility aside, it is fun to mess around with gooey balls

Just released a small update for 65x24.app : RAW output can now be saved without crop metadata A RAW capture is the whole sensor, so the full data was always there - but not all editors/viewers support the crop metadata field properly, so now you can bypass it

The interface of a pro camera app is packed with information, constantly changing values that need to be understood at a glance, shifting digits that need to remain precisely aligned for optimal legibility To achieve this, Bayer Cam uses the timeless Input Mono, designed by DJR

You can be as satisfied as can be with your work, it's only when the first reviews start coming in that you know whether you hit the mark or not

Another upside to keeping the same outline is that for people who care about customization and have a transparent/tinted home screen, things look exactly the same