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📌 Hot Tip #1:

After installing Photosets, open the Settings app, Tap your name / iCloud / Manage Account Storage / Backups / (select) your iPhone OR iPad, Turn Off Photosets & Confirm.

That will prevent iOS (& Apple servers) from backing-up Photosets to your iCloud storage.

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News Update : 7:30 AM (La Jolla-time) Tuesday, Dec 3, 2024

FYI, one more thing to announce today.

We want to clarify that the "ML" part (i.e., the Machine Learning part) of "ML Super Pro" is optional.

One does NOT need to use app's ML Tag/Caption/Label support, its use is optional.

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News Update : 6:30 AM (La Jolla-time) Tuesday, Dec 3, 2024

FYI, Photosets v11.2, out tomorrow ?, adds support for making 10-bit 422HQ 4K Short-Form Videos from your captured RGB3x 10-bit 422 Lossless Burst Photo Sets !

Make NO mistake, it has Game Changer potential !

Those (few) sufficiently Skilled in the Art should appreciate its significance.

ALL others will need to wait on the Kick Off of our upcoming Marketing & Branding Campaign.

But here's a hint, think of the benefits of capturing Burst Photo Sets with High-Precision Timing & with Long Press Shutter support controlling a circular buffer, & now expanding that to include Lossless 10-bit 422 Burst Photo Capture & making Short-Form ProRes 422HQ Videos from the captured content.

Simply put, v11.2 takes Photosets to an entirely new level.

One we refer to as "ML Super Pro".

Where the ML simply refers to Machine Learning, which for Photosets correlates to the ML Tag/Caption/Label support we've built into v2 of the RGB3x file format.

And BTW, v2 of the RGB3x file format goes live with Photosets v11.2.

Also BTW, one does NOT need to use the 255-byte ML Tag/Caption/Label field for Machine Learning, but that's where it Fills an Immediate High-Value Need.

i.e., the capture & collection of "dynamic" ML training data.

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News Update : 9 AM (La Jolla-time) Monday, Dec 2, 2024

Two things to announce:

1.) We've NOT yet submitted Photosets v11.2 to Apple App Review.

Perhaps later today.

Crafting 10-bit 422HQ 4K Short-Form Videos from captured RGB3x Lossless Photos is NON-trivial !

2.) This week we'll be Kicking Off a brand-new Marketing & Branding campaign:

Photosets may be Light Years Ahead of Apple's Burst mode feature, but until Tim sacks Phil OR the AAPL Board sacks Tim, "App Discovery" will remain (mostly) out of our control.

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Cosmosent Labs, Inc.

La Jolla, California


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Photosets

High-Precision Timing Burst Photo Camera (App)

with integrated

Short-Form, 60-scene Video Maker
with Rock Solid A/V Sync support !


iOS App Store here in the States



● Key STATs (June 10, 2015 - Dec 3, 2024):

● Downloads: 50.1K World, 13.8K In the States

● Updates: 992K World, 540K In the States

● # of App Review Approvals:  396

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📌 Hot Tip #1:

After installing Photosets, open the Settings app, Tap your name / iCloud / Manage Account Storage / Backups / (select) your iPhone OR iPad, Turn Off Photosets & Confirm.

That will prevent iOS (& Apple servers) from backing-up Photosets to your iCloud storage.

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📌 Photosets v11.1+

ML Super Pro went live in Photosets v11.1.

2x Capture went live in Photosets v11.0.

(table last updated 11 AM, Thurs, Nov 28, 2024)


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Max. Number of Photos/Set

Photosets'
High-Precision Timing
Burst Photo Capture Engine


Max
4K60
Capture
Duration

(seconds)


8 Mpx

(30 fps)
4K

(30-60 fps)
12 Mpx

(30 fps)

ML Super Pro
IAP

($9.99)


-


30

(10-bit 422)


-


1/2


2x Capture
IAP

($4.99)


60


60

(8-bit 420)


40


1


Base
version
of
Photosets

($4.99)


30


30

(8-bit 420)


20


1/2


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📌 Where "ML Super Pro" fits into the Mix

(table last updated 9 AM, Wed, Nov 27, 2024)
10-bit 422 4K
High-Precision Timing
Burst Photo Capture

(1, 4)


RGB3x
File
Format


ML
Tag/Caption/Label
support

(2)


Depth Map
support

(3)


ML Super Pro
IAP

($9.99)


✔


✔


✔


✔

(v11.2+)


2x Capture
IAP

($4.99)


-


-


-


-


Base
version
of
Photosets

($4.99)


-


-


-


-


(1) 4K30 & 4K60 supported, with sRGB, HLG (with Rec.2020 color primaries),
& Apple Log (with Rec.2020 color primaries).

(2) Up-to 255 bytes per photo.

(3) Four options supported, Full-Res, plus 1/4, 1/6, & 1/8 the Photo's Res.

(4) For now, we've intentionally limited it to a Max of "30" photos/set.

That's because the (photo) files are BIG !

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📌 Photosets' ML Tag/Caption/Label support

Photosets' 10-bit 422 4K capture support was first added in v10.31.

ML Tag/Caption/Label support was first added in v11.1.

(table last updated 10 AM, Sat, Nov 23, 2024)


420 8-bit


10-bit


8 Mpx /
4K /
12 Mpx


12 Mpx


422 4K

(1)


sRGB


P3 D65


RAW
DNG


Linear
DNG


sRGB


P3 D65


HLG


Apple Log


Photosets'
High-Precision Timing Burst Photo Capture


✔


✔


-


-


✔


-


✔


✔


Photosets'
ML Tag/Caption/Label support

(v11.1+)


-


-


-


-


✔


-


✔


✔


LZ4
Lossless Compression

(v10.31+)


-


-


-


-


✔


-


✔


✔


Optionally
Craft Video Scenes
with
ProRes 422 HQ
Encoding

(v11.2 ?)


-


-


-


-


✔


-


✔


✔


(1) Uses the RGB3x file format.

10-bit 422 4K30/4K60, & with "Cinematic Extended" Image Stabilization.

Please note that Apple Log has a completely different flow than sRGB & HLG.

The flow is similar to the flow used for both RAW DNG & Linear DNG.

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📌 (Under Development) RGB3x Fle Format Editor support:

● The ability to View & Edit the RGB3x header fields.

● The ability to Edit, Embed, & Delete the ML Tag/Caption/Label payload.

● The ability to Edit, Embed, & Delete the Depth Map payload.

● The ability to View the Photo Metadata.

● The ability to perform Batch Ops on ALL photos of a photo set.

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📌 (Under Development) RGB3x Depth Map support:

The v2 RGB3x Capture "Depth Map" header field can be ANY integer value between "1" and "4," representing what the photo resolution width & height are divided by.

E.g., if "1," then the Depth Map Res is equal to the Photo Res.

if "2," then the Depth Map Res is 1/4 of the Photo Res.

If "3," then the Depth Map Res is 1/6 of the Photo Res.

If "4," then the Depth Map Res is 1/8 of the Photo Res.

Set to "0" to specify that there is NO Depth Map.

The Depth Map header field is located at [19:15] in the RGB3x 4B header.

And BTW, Depth Map datapoints are represented as 16-bit unsigned integers.

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📌 Hot Tip #2:

Open the Settings app, Tap Camera / Formats, & read the description for ProRAW.

i.e., the description that starts with "ProRAW is a 10-bit file ...".

Next, tap ProRes Encoding, & read the description below the three options.

Make sure the Apple ProRes switch is set to ON.

The key part of the description is:

Log will appear flat and gray before processing adjustments are made.

Note that Apple uses Apple Log for video recording with ProRes encoding.

And that Photosets uses Apple Log for high-precision timing burst photo capture
with NO encoding during capture.

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📌 How Photosets' .rgb3x compares

(table last updated 8 AM, Sun, Oct 27, 2024)


Format
File
Extension
Compression
per-Photo
Metadata
Supports
three
10-bit
Transfer
Function
+
Color
Space
combos

(1)


Image

(Lossy)
Data

(Lossless)

UN-comp.
RGB

(2)


.rgb3x


-
✔
✔


✔


.rgb3
-
✔
✔


-


.rgb2
-
✔
-
-


.rgb
-
-
-
-


HEIC
.heic
✔
-
✔
-


JPEG
.jpg
✔
-
✔
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(1) sRGB, HLG (with Rec.2020 color primaries),
& Apple Log (with Rec.2020 color primaries).

For some UN-known reason,
Apple doesn't offer support for P3 D65 with 10-bit 422 4K capture.

(2) UN-comp. RGB stands for UN-compressed RGB.

And by that we mean NO image compression.

● .rgb3x = Enhanced version of .rgb3.

● .rgb3 = 3rd-Gen UN-comp. RGB

● .rgb2 = 2nd-Gen UN-comp. RGB

● .rgb = 1st-Gen UN-comp. RGB

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📌 List of iPhones we recommend with Photosets

(compared WRT Zoom-In, Image Sensor Pixel Size, & DRAM)


(table last updated 8 PM, Mon, Sept 9, 2024)


iPhone
Back Wide
Back Tele
DRAM


1x

Pixel
Binning


2x

Native

NO Pixel
Binning


3x-5x

Native

NO Pixel
Binning


6 GB




8 GB

(1)

2.0
um


2.44
um


2.44+
um


1.0
um


1.22
um


1.22+
um


16 Pro Max

6.9"


-


✔


-


-


✔


-


5x

1.12 um


-


✔


16 Pro

6.3"


-


✔


-


-


✔


-


5x

1.12 um


-


✔


16 Plus

6.7"


✔


-


-


✔


-


-


-


-


✔


16

6.1"


✔


-


-


✔


-


-


-


-


✔


15 Pro Max

6.7"


-


✔


-


-


✔


-


5x

1.12 um


-


✔


15 Pro

6.1"


-


✔


-


-


✔


-


3x

1.0 um


-


✔


15 Plus

6.7"


✔


-


-


✔


-


-


-


✔


-


15

6.1"


✔


-


-


✔


-


-


-


✔


-


14 Pro Max

6.7"


-


✔


-


-


✔


-


3x

1.0 um


✔


-


14 Pro

6.1"


-


✔


-


-


✔


-


3x

1.0 um


✔


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(1) Needed for Apple Intelligence.

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