Artemis Director's Viewfinder

When Artemis first debuted it didn’t take long for us to mostly shed every other old style and cumbersome finder - be they lens-on or the viewfinder type. Working as we do with minimum 3 cameras, and often more on Landman and Lioness, the time savings are significant given we do in the order of 60+ set ups a day. The fact my operators, the director, myself and indeed every crew member has a viewfinder in their pocket and can immediately see what we are aiming for is a godsend on set and invaluable in prep. I now have the art and location departments using them for previs and scouting. And it just keeps getting better. 5 Stars !!!

Do not buy this app. I just went on an all day scout photographing park locations across LA. It was a jam packed day, so I didn’t have time to export all of my photos from Artemis to my Photos folder between locations. I returned home to two very sick and fussy toddlers, and an exhausted wife, so I took care of my family and elected to sort and export my photos in the morning. Well, I woke up and the app updated itself overnight and erased all of the photos I took the previous day. Literally, hundreds of photos. An entire day wasted. And it’s raining these next couple of days, so I can’t go and reshoot everything because I need clear skies for the location deck of my outdoor spot. There is no customer service support to reach out to, either, so the best I can do is warn you all about purchasing this terrible app. Next time I will just use the dedicated camera app on my iPhone.

I really wanted to contact the company directly vs leaving a review but there is no contact link through the support path. So far as lenses are concerned, there are enough Sirui lenses floating out there at this point that it would be nice to have those in the set. Further more, in the generic lens section why not have an option to customize your anamorphic squeeze? They have some 1.3 lenses but their new full frame lenses are an odd size of 1.6x. SmallHD allows this type of adjustment and it would be a great option to have in general. I have also noticed that you cannot select any focal lengths in red. I understand these would create vignetting but sometimes I would be cropping it anyway so I don’t really care if it vignettes, etc. In the case of ZCam, we can mod an MFT mount and put it on an F6 and pretty much get full frame coverage up to about 5k if the rear diameter of the lens allows for that. Any chance of importing our own stand in models or transparent png files would be huge as well. Thanks for such an amazing app, and for adding Z Cam.