The accuracy part of the goal was met by recording information about gear. Plus, it was an excuse to learn a new programming language and write a mobile app. I also had a deadline as I had a holiday coming up where I was planning to shoot a lot of film, so I’d be able to test (or “dog food”) my own software. After trying the above app myself I thought: “I can do better than this”.Īt this point, I should point out that I’ve been making a living writing software for over 30 years, so my exclamation wasn’t pure hubris.
At the time, I was using a pen-and-paper approach to record my shots and was finding that to be equally slow and cumbersome. This meant that recording a shot took way longer than necessary and, in my view, put you off using it. The app wasn’t very user-friendly, it never “remembered” any of the settings from previous entries requiring all exposure data to be re-entered for each shot.
He tried to use this app during a couple of our of regular lunchtime photowalks, but it was a pain to use. The app would let you enter the aperture, shutter speed, ISO and a subject so you could refer to it later. Sometime in 2018, my friend, Rob Kent, downloaded an Android app that would help him record analogue exposure information.
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