The company revised a number of the emulsion renderings and added 10 more while updating the user interface. That wasn't all that DxO was coding, though. This is good value – they’d set you back £100 on your own – as long as you don’t already use something like Lightroom.FilmPack 3 includes a few new tools as well, including: Customized film effects, Hue/Saturation/Lightness sliders, a Channel Mixer, Creative Vignetting and a Noise Removal tool. You get a free copy of DxO Optics Pro with the DxO One – plus the DxO Connect import app and the DxO Film Pack ‘film looks’ plugin for Optics Pro, Photoshop and Lightroom. From the evening onwards, I found that photos taken in Super Raw mode were less noisy, but I still avoided using the mode unless really necessary as Super Raw images can’t be imported directly into Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop (or Apple’s own Photos software) – you have to bring them in via DxO’s own Optics Pro software (which is available for Mac and Windows).
In Super Raw mode, the DxO One takes four shots in quick succession, saves them as one file and then uses the processing power of your computer to combine them in a way that eliminates a lot of noise. You can capture images in three formats: JPG, Raw or ‘Super Raw’. No touchscreen interface – no matter how slick or intuitive – can compete with the proper buttons and dials of digital SLR, as with practice you can adjust them without taking your eyes off what you’re shooting.
The DxO One camera app is probably the best camera app I’ve ever used. On the right are four big, thumb-sized buttons to trigger pop-out menus for capture format (more on that later), a timer, flash and shooting modes. You can swipe across the screen on the back of the DxO One to change from photos to video – as you can shoot both without attaching it to your phone, but you’re essentially shooting blind and I never found a reason to do so – but everything else is reached via buttons and controls down the left and right of what turns out to be a rather brilliantly designed app. You also use your camera’s screen to access the DxO One’s controls. Your phone’s big screen – compared to most cameras – makes framing photos super easy. I’m quite a fan of fixed lens cameras and – from snapping on our phones – most of us are comfortable with moving around and contorting ourselves to get the right shot. Some people are going to be put off by the lack of a zoom lens, but that’s a sacrifice inherent in the DxO One’s core concept. And shooting Raw, I could further improve the shots at home in a way that’s just not possible with Apple’s Camera and Photos.
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