Iphone as proofing tool

[Pawlowski6132]

im sure this idea has been discussed somewhere but, I didn't see it.

Is anyone else using their iPhone to proof their negatives?

https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#AS5oqs3qUY3ZE

[vinny]

I have done it. You need to block out any part of the light box that's not in use to reduce lens flare. Other than that, it works in a pinch. There have been a few discussions about it here as well.

[mdarnton]

I do it quite often. I usually convert negs by shooting them with my Nikon D300 and macro lens,
but doing it with my Android phone (Samsung Galaxy 4 has a disturbingly good camera) often works
fine, and I don't bother with the Nikon, even. It depends on the subject whether it will work or not,
and the phone does have some barrel distortion, which Photoshop can fix. Here's one with the phone,
a 4x5 neg shot with 15" Tele-Raptar on Super D Graflex. If you click through to a full res version,
you'll see it's really not too bad, especially if I printed it at a normal size rather than pixel-peeping:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7510/15646511680_729b91d403_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/pQCsNL)

Heide (https://flic.kr/p/pQCsNL)
by michael.darnton (https://www.flickr.com/people/118045067@N03/), on Flickr

[Robert Langham]

I certainly use it to preview images in the field or studio. It's like Polaroid, only you can pick a lens length. Can't wait until they get all the bugs out of the iphone 6s....gotta be even better. I've used it shooting still life to run a little video of the shot, (since my still life is frequently an event more than a static set-up) and then figure out which part of the event I want to shoot on film.

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[Larry Gebhardt]

Works well enough, and if you turn on Invert Colors in the Accessibility options it will invert the negative (color or black and white) right on the screen without the need for post processing.

[Amfooty]

Works well enough, and if you turn on Invert Colors in the Accessibility options it will invert the negative (color or black and white) right on the screen without the need for post processing.

Yup. This is what I do. It works quite well.

[Light Guru]

There's an app for that.
https://appsto.re/us/miLhF.i