Adobe’s new camera app is making me rethink phone photography

Adobe's Project Indigo is a camera app built by camera nerds for camera nerds. It's the work of Florian Kainz and Marc Levoy, the latter of whom is also known as one of the pioneers of computational photography with his work on early Pixel phones. Indigo's basic promise is a sensible approach to image processing while taking full advantage of computational techniques. It also invites you into the normally opaque processes that happen when you push the shutter button on your phone camera - just the thing for a camera nerd like me.

If you hate the overly aggressive HDR look, or you're tired of your iPhone sharpening the ever-living crap out of your photos, Project Indigo might be for you. It's available in beta on iOS, though it is not - and I stress this - for the faint of heart. It's slow, it's prone to heating up my iPhone, and it drains the battery. But it's the most thoughtfully designed camera experience I've ever used on a phone, and it gave me a renewed sense of curiosity about the camera I use every day.

You'll know this isn't your garden-variety camera app right from the onboarding screens. One section details the difference bet …

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