iPhone 5 Camera Apps Can Access Low Light Boost Mode

Camera app developers can access a new low light boost mode for the iPhone 5, reports Jim Rhoades of Crush Apps.

Referencing Daring Fireball's John Gruber report that found the iPhone 5 was capable of shooting at ISO 3200 but third party apps were limited to ISO 800.

Rhoades found the same in his own testing; however, after posting a thread (developer login ID required) to the Apple developer forums I've learned that 3rd party developers CAN take advantage of this special "low light boost mode". (Thanks Apple!)


Examining the "AVCaptureDevice.h" class header reveals the related properties:

lowLightBoostSupported
lowLightBoostEnabled
automaticallyEnablesLowLightBoostWhenAvailable

Rhoades says he plans to include the feature in an upcoming update to Scout Camera.

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