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June 20, 2025

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Adobe’s New Photography App

credits: Project Indigo

Adobe has quietly launched Project Indigo, a new camera app built around computational photography, and it’s aiming at photographers who’ve never quite been sold on smartphone cameras. For many, phone photos just don’t feel like real camera photos. Even with all the advances in sensors and optics, people still find smartphone images too processed, too artificial, and lacking the manual control they’re used to. Project Indigo is Adobe’s answer to that.

One of the apps big tricks is how it handles exposure. Instead of pushing a single frame to the limit in low light, Indigo captures and merges up to 32 frames in quick succession, resulting in photos that are cleaner, sharper, and less noisy, especially in shadows or dark scenes. It’s kind of like doing a long exposure, but handheld. You just tap the shutter, wait a couple of seconds, and let the app do its thing. The app also addresses zoom in a clever way. Instead of just cropping in and calling it a day, Indigo uses multi-frame super-resolution to rebuild detail, taking advantage of your natural hand movement to stack slightly different frames into a sharper image.

On top of that, Indigo gives you full pro-level control. You can dial in shutter speed, ISO, white balance, manual focus, and even tweak how many frames the app captures in a burst. It’s all designed specifically for computational photography. Project Indigo is free and already available for iPhone users with models starting from the 12 Pro and up, or 14 and newer for non-Pro phones. There’s no Adobe account needed, and more features (including Android support) are on the way.

You can real full details on Adobe’s blog here, and you can download the app here

Harman’s New 120 Format 125 Redscale Film

credits: Harman

Harman Technology has released its experimental redscale color film, Harman Red 125, in 120 format. The film originally made its debut earlier this year in 35mm, but now medium-format photographers can get in on the action. If you’ve never shot redscale before, basically the colour profile gets flipped on its head by exposing the film through its red-sensitive layer first, giving everything a glow that ranges from burnt orange to crimson, with occasional hints of green and delicate shadow tones depending on how you meter it.

Built on the same base as the company’s Phoenix emulsion, Red 125 was designed to be a creative and cinematic experience. And while the film is rated at ISO 125, it’s got quite a bit of wiggle room, Harman says you can shoot it anywhere from 50 to 400, with the sweet spot landing around 100 to 200 depending on lighting and how intense you want those colours to pop. Brighter exposures tend to give you finer grain and cleaner, more saturated orange-red hues, while underexposing brings out more shadow detail, deeper grain, and greenish tones.

What makes the new 120 version intriguing is how much the medium format brings out the film’s character. Bigger negatives mean more detail and smoother gradations, so those reds and yellows have even more room to breathe. And since it’s still C41 process, you can develop it at any standard lab. The film is going for $12.99 a roll.

You can see full details and sample shots on B&H’s website here

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