A long-requested update has been released for the Hasselblad Phocus Mobile app. After years of being available only on iPhones and iPads, the photo editing app finally comes to Android devices, offering a comprehensive editing toolkit.
The first Android version of the app is compatible with Hasselblad medium format digital cameras, like the stills photography beast Hasselblad X2D II 100C, which features a 100MP sensor and LiDAR autofocus, or its earlier version, the Hasselblad X2D 100C; ultimately, you can also pair the Hasselblad 907X CFV 100C, which our online editor dubbed as the World’s most beautiful camera.
Legends like Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, or Ansel Adams have been avid users of analogue Hasselblads, to name a few, while modern digital versions have been favoured by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.
Apart from fine art and studio photography, Hasselblad cameras are used by museum professionals to create colour-accurate catalogues of their artworks due to the incredibly precise colour rendition they achieve. The firm calls this Hasselblad Natural Colour Solution (HNCS). When a RAW file is imported to the Hasselblad Phocus Mobile app, it promises to preserve true-to-life colours, smooth tonal gradation, and rich highlight detail and enables you to export in JPG, TIFF, HEIF, or 3FR RAW formats.
It features a comprehensive editing toolkit with exposure adjustment, curves, white balance, monochrome correction, lens correction, noise reduction, sharpening, cropping, rotation, keystone correction options, as well as an HDR highlight adjustment feature to fine-tune highlight details in high-contrast images. You can also use it to catalogue and rate your images and use Hasselblad Natural Noise Reduction if your phone sports one the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 or newer processor.
Connect to the new Hasselblad Phocus Mobile app via Wi-Fi or for the Hasselblad 907X CFV 100C via USB-C connection. Available from the Google Play Store and from Hasselblad’s website starting today.
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