Getting started with Photoxor Toolkit

The Photoxor Toolkit App is now a bit like the 'swiss army knife' for photographers providing a very rich feature set to calculate, plan and track your photo journey. Ok, for a new user this can be overwhelming at first. Let's walk through step-by-step and experience some of the key tool now.
And while we step through I'll highlight a few tips as well.

How To: Use Exposure Presets

Do you have your favourite exposure settings - Aperture, ISO, shutter speed? Remember the 'Sunny f/16 rule'?

The Photoxor Toolkit June 2019 edition will extend the presets onto the EV screen, a good opportunity to present a few tips and tricks around this feature.

Now we explore the power behind these three little round blue and orange buttons found on a number of calculation screens.

5 Years of Photoxor Toolkit

Photoxor Toolkit is 5!!

This is a very exciting milestone in the journey of this App. Let's celebrate!! Over the next couple of weeks we'll mark down some of the in-app extensions. They might even be free for a short time.
Check out the anniversary release with the 5 hedgehogs. Do you like them?

Photoxor C1 Toolkit Version 1.6.4 in Beta - KMZ files, long exposure times, and fixes

We just released Photoxor C1 Toolkit version 1.6.4 into Beta Testing. This version brings you some new features and a few fixes.

Interested to explore them now? We continue our public Beta program for this release.

Please feel free to join in. Whilst our internal tests were very promising, there is always a chance that the Beta version might have some flaws. If you find a problem, please let us know to improve the release version of Photoxor Toolkit.

Enable your Beta testing here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.photoxor.fotoapp

The new main features of version 1.6.4 beta are:

• KMZ files are now supported to import locations.
• Improved readability of long exposure times.
• Filter screen: locks do not automatically open.
• Edited configuration information (cameras, lenses, flashes, ...) is retained during screen rotation.
• A number of smaller fixes.

Photoxor C1 Toolkit version 1.5.7 Released

Photoxor C1 Toolkit version 1.5.7 is available now; upgrade or download for free.


The new features of version 1.5.7 are:

• More screen space due to collapsing toolbar.
• A new location provider for better accuracy and lower power.
• ISO values down to 10.
• A number of bug fixes and lots of internal improvements.

Beta Program: Photoxor C1 Toolkit 1.5.7 beta - Collapsing Toolbar, New Location Provider

A number of new features will soon be released in the upcoming version 1.5.7.

Interested to explore them now? We continue our public Beta program for this release.

Please feel free to join. Whilst our internal tests were look very promising, there is always a chance that the Beta version might have some flaws. If you find a problem, please let us know to improve the release version of Photoxor Toolkit.

Enable your Beta testing here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.photoxor.fotoapp

The new main features of version 1.5.7 beta are:

• More screen space due to collapsing toolbar.
• A new location provider for better accuracy and lower power.
• ISO values down to 10.
• A number of bug fixes and lots of internal improvements.

Photoxor C1 Version 1.5.4a: Enhanced Tracking

Photoxor C1 Version 1.5.4a is available now; upgrade or download for free.


Please upgrade to version 1.5.4a; it provides a fix to a crash in the Rewards screen and some other minor fixes.

The new features of version 1.5.4 are:

• Tracking enhancements:
• A redesigned Tracking Screen now provides simplified start / pause / stop controls.
• A matching new Widget is available.
• Filter Screen: Alert icon when result value out of range.
• Filter & EV Screens: Now allows user to manually adjust 'locked' values.
• Improved dialog to select the most appropriate location provider.
• A number of bug fixes and lots of internal improvements.

Please read on ...

Filter Screen Improvements

The Filters screen is part of the Photoxor C1 toolkit since its first release. It provides the calculation on how to correct the camera exposure settings when adding neutral density filters.

The standard workflow is:

• Measure the light situation without filters attached.Apply the filter stack.
• Get the new camera settings with filters attached.The calculation retains ISO and aperture settings, and adjusts the exposure time.
• Optionally, the calculated settings can be adjusted, and a lock may be used to keep a value from changing.For example, you may lock aperture to retain the aperture setting (i.e. aperture priority).

Up to now, all locks on the filter screen are released as soon as you change either the values of ‘camera settings without filter’ or modify the filter stack.

Version 1.5.3 of Photoxor C1 will change this behaviour slightly and not release locks on changes to the filter stack. Why will this be useful?

In addition to above ‘standard’ workflow (where we are able to adjust aperture, exposure time, ISO settings), we are now able to also change the filter stack to adjust our exposure target and retain locked values!

As an example, you require a specific target exposure time to achieve a particular effect, but also want to utilise a specific aperture and ISO value:

• Measure the light situation without filters attached.
• Apply the initial filter stack.
• Now you receive the result settings.
• Set the result aperture to your preferred value, and set the aperture lock.
• Set the result ISO to your preferred value, and set the ISO lock.
• This will result in a calculated exposure time value (which can’t be changed as the other two values are locked).
• Now adjust your filter stack to achieve the desired exposure time.
  Both aperture and ISO remain fixed, only exposure time will change accordingly.

Please let us know what you think about this new workflow. Is it useful for you?