The Ideal App?
The ideal App will allow manual focus and exposure, user selectable LED intensity and allow you to take photos with a simple easy to get to button - Procamera ticks all these boxes.
My favourite iPhone App is Procamera this iOS App is one of the few I've found which allow the user to dim the LED allowing fundus photography through an undilated pupil much more readily. It also has a really neat focus check feature (focus peaking). It's only draw back is that turning the light onto continuous can be a bit fiddly with big fingers.
One of my other favourite iPhone Apps is still Camera + (lateniteapps) which now has a two versions (legacy and vs 2) as it has an excellent system for selecting exposure at a different point to focus - this really helps with the retina as the reflective tapetum often causes overexposure without this facility. I will often focus on the optic nerve head and then select the tapetum or non tapetum as needed to set the exposure. Tapping the screen allows you to select these different areas. To photo the visual eye you do need to use micropore tape or similar to act as a diffuser for the LED using the legacy version but with the newest version you can now reduce the LED intensity in the app as you can with Procamera.
To my knowledge no Android apps allow you to reduce the light intensity within the app, yet. My long time favourite is Open Camera. This free app allows the light to be turned on , camera selection (within the limits of each phone), has an easy manual focus and zoom bar and focus peaking to maximise sharp focus.
Which ever App you use setting it up correctly can make all the difference - I've created guides for setting up my favourite apps and links to the app stores below.
Email ([email protected]) or facebook me if you have any favourite Apps or other suggestions.
Tim
My favourite iPhone App is Procamera this iOS App is one of the few I've found which allow the user to dim the LED allowing fundus photography through an undilated pupil much more readily. It also has a really neat focus check feature (focus peaking). It's only draw back is that turning the light onto continuous can be a bit fiddly with big fingers.
One of my other favourite iPhone Apps is still Camera + (lateniteapps) which now has a two versions (legacy and vs 2) as it has an excellent system for selecting exposure at a different point to focus - this really helps with the retina as the reflective tapetum often causes overexposure without this facility. I will often focus on the optic nerve head and then select the tapetum or non tapetum as needed to set the exposure. Tapping the screen allows you to select these different areas. To photo the visual eye you do need to use micropore tape or similar to act as a diffuser for the LED using the legacy version but with the newest version you can now reduce the LED intensity in the app as you can with Procamera.
To my knowledge no Android apps allow you to reduce the light intensity within the app, yet. My long time favourite is Open Camera. This free app allows the light to be turned on , camera selection (within the limits of each phone), has an easy manual focus and zoom bar and focus peaking to maximise sharp focus.
Which ever App you use setting it up correctly can make all the difference - I've created guides for setting up my favourite apps and links to the app stores below.
Email ([email protected]) or facebook me if you have any favourite Apps or other suggestions.
Tim
Setting up your camera App for ophthalmic photography
Guides for setting up my three favourite iOS apps for ophthalmic photography. Procamer and the new Camera + app both allow you to reduce the LED intensity in the app meaning no more micropore tape over the LED:
iPhone apps
| set_up_camera_plus_new__vers_2022.pdf |
| set_up_procamera.pdf |
| set_up_camera_plus_legacy_vers.pdf |
Android app - Open camera
| set_up_opencamera.pdf |
Android apps |
iOS apps (iPhone, iPad and iPod) |