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For high-quality images, medium-format cameras were the professionals’ choice for years. And many preferred the framing of the 6x7cm format above all. Now 6×7 takes you back to that time, with beautiful, high-resolution images that aren’t quite square – but aren’t too stretched out, either.
✓ 6:7 image ratio
✓ Blistering performance
✓ Optional Volume+ hardware shutter release
✓ Full EXIF support – including location-tagging
✓ Manual focus and exposure control
✓ What you see is what you capture
✓ Framing grids help you keep your verticals and horizontals where they should be
✓ "Split-image" shows where the middle of your composition is, and even whether it’s level
✓ Fixed focal length lens (no digital zoom to make your photographs fuzzier)
✓ Saves straight to the Camera Roll
✓ Manual flash control – it’s either on or off
✓ Color or B&W
✓ Elegant user interface
Advanced Settings
✓ Opt-in to Volume+ hardware shutter release
✓ Standard or Dynamic (more contrast/brightness) B&W
✓ Standard or Dynamic (more saturation/contrast/brightness) color
✓ Control sounds: audio feedback when you click a switch or press a button
✓ A retro flashgun sound, for some serious nostalgia
✓ Settings button is a "film counter" that shows you, through a red jewel, when (and how many) images are background saving
Manual Focus/Exposure Control
✓ Tap to set the focus/exposure point-of-interest
✓ Tap-hold to set an independent exposure point-of-interest (a single tap now manages focus alone)
✓ Swipe the display to lock the focus and exposure
✓ Double-tap to return to Autofocus/Autoexposure
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said.
Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London.
Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art.
Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK.
She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]