Cadrage Director's Viewfinder

Cadrage Director's Viewfinder$9.99

Rated 4.37/5 (188) —  Free Android application by distant blue - mobile solutions

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About Cadrage Director's Viewfinder

Cadrage is a director’s viewfinder app for your Android phone and tablet. Plan your shots with precise framing previews of any professional camera/lens combination and make sure everybody is on the same page during preproduction and on set.

If you work in filmmaking you are probably familiar with traditional director’s viewfinders: They have been around for decades allowing the director and cinematographer to quickly frame shots without having to move the camera. This established tool is now taken to the next level: Using the camera of your smartphone, Cadrage is able to accurately simulate the framing of any camera and lens setup. Preview shots instantly and get ready to shoot faster. Whether you are a film student or a seasoned filmmaker, this app assists you in getting the most out of your shooting day.

Cadrage has a built-in gallery and project manager to organize your images and add notes to them. From there you can email or upload them to your Dropbox and also create neat PDF shotlists. All important information like format, focal length, compass orientation and GPS data will be attached.

We've included all commonly used professional camera formats (see list below), but in case you don’t find your camera in the database, you can easily create custom formats. Cadrage supports spherical and anamorphic (1.3x, 1.5x, 2x) lenses and also the use of Metabones Speedbooster adapters.

To expand the field of view of your phone and simulate very wide lenses Cadrage supports third party wide angle adapters. The following lenses are pre-calibrated:
Moment Lens (Wide/Tele), olloclip 4-in-1. Schneider iPro (Wide/Super Wide/Tele)

We regularly add new cameras to the database and work on new features that make using the app even more convenient. If you’re experiencing any problems or if you’re missing a certain feature please get in touch with us by email: support@distantblue.at! We're happy to help you!


CAMERA FORMATS INCLUDED

----- FILM -----

35mm (Super, Standard, Anamorphic)
16mm (Normal, Super)
8mm (Normal, Super)
65mm
IMAX


----- DIGITAL CINEMA -----
(including all resolutions and shooting modes)

AJA Cion
ARRI Alexa
ARRI Alexa 65
ARRI Amira
ARRI D-21
Blackmagic Cinema Camera
Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera
Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera
Blackmagic Production Camera 4K
Blackmagic Studio Camera HD / 4K
Blackmagic URSA / URSA 4.6K
Canon C100 / C300 / C500
Digital Bolex
Genesis
Ikonoskop A cam dII
Panasonic AF101
Panasonic VariCam 35
Phantom Flex4K
Phantom Flex
Phantom 65
Phantom HD Gold
PS-CAM X35
RED One
RED Dragon
RED Epic
RED Raven
RED Scarlet
RED Weapon 8K
SI-2K
Sony F5 / F55
Sony F65
Sony F3 / F35
Sony F23
Sony F900
Sony FS100 / FS700
Sony FS7
Weisscam HS-2

Generic Broadcast Cameras (1/3'', 1/2'', 2/3'')


----- DSLRs -----
(both for still photography and video mode)

Canon DSLRs (eg. Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 7D, Canon 550D/T2i)
Nikon DSLRs (eg. Nikon D4, Nikon D3x, Nikon D800)
Panasonic DSLRs (eg. GH3, GH4)
Sony DSLRs (eg. A7sII)
Olympus DSLRs
Pentax DSLRs
and many more...


----- Medium and Large Format -----

Medium Format 4.5x6
Medium Format 6x6
Medium Format 6x7
Medium Format 6x8
Medium Format 6x9
Large Format 4"x5"
Large Format 5"x7"
Large Format 8"x10"

Digital medium format by Hasselblad, Phase One and Pentax

How to Download / Install

Download and install Cadrage Director's Viewfinder version 3.0.7 on your Android device!
Downloaded 1,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: com.distantblue.cadrage, download Cadrage Director's Viewfinder.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
New in Cadrage 3.0.7:
• New formats: RED Weapon (Helium & Dragon-VV), RED Epic-W (Helium), Canon 5D Mark IV, Panasonic VariCam LT
• Updated ARRI Alexa formats
• Updated and improved Dropbox connection. If you've linked your account before, you'll be asked for permission again.
Version update Cadrage Director's Viewfinder was updated to version 3.0.7
Price update  Price changed from $9.99 to $11.99.
Version update Cadrage Director's Viewfinder was updated to version 2.5.1
Version update Cadrage Director's Viewfinder was updated to version 2.4.2

What are users saying about Cadrage Director's Viewfinder

R70%
by R####:

Help me out guys... Downloaded on my new Galaxy S7 Edge and the app won't load past the Cadrage home screen. Nothing gets me into the actual app itself. Worked perfectly on my old LG.

D70%
by D####:

How can I manually focus & change WB?

D70%
by D####:

Useful. Friendly

D70%
by D####:

Update: now it's working fine again. ------ After update it says the app is not registered and that I have to connect to the Internet to register it but Im already connected. I even tried uninstalling and installing again and same issue. Please fix this ASAP as I paid for this app and I use it for work!

D70%
by D####:

love this app, helping so much!! but I wish the developer can add Fibonacci Spiral Golden Ratio display overlay (up, down, left and right "spiral" display overlay can be change when take a photo), I think it will be usefull to create great composition :)

W70%
by W####:

It helps me try different gear setups quickly. I would give it six stars if I could.

D70%
by D####:

Great tool for shot listing and storyboards.

X70%
by X####:

Long overdue review! Great support, great price, lots of great features and constantly getting better!

D70%
by D####:

This app has only 4 lens choices !!! 25-32-50-85mm

D70%
by D####:

Its a grt app☺

W70%
by W####:

Clean, capable and so helpful to always have at hand. Best I know of, including more expensive Smartphone viewfinders. Especially like the ability to select specific focal lengths for display and show them together as an overlay. Great feature. Suggestion: add the capability to capture ands save that same overlay view to a snapshot for future reference so later one can quickly see their relative fields of view in a single image. Thanks for a great app. Mike M.

D70%
by D####:

This is so handy to have! It makes location scouting and scene blocking so easy and it's always with when I stumble across new locations. Fantastic work developers. Looking forward to what you do next.

N70%
by N####:

Suppper loved it :3

D70%
by D####:

It is great...

F70%
by F####:

I find it very useful. Must have for a director.

D70%
by D####:

I think this app will help me during location hunting.

S70%
by S####:

Works really well. Love that I can save camera packages for easy switching between settings.

S70%
by S####:

Excellent director's viewfinder

S70%
by S####:

Niceeee

S70%
by S####:

I shoot sports and action for high school and college level athletes and other action events. Not only does Cadrage allow me to frame and preview my shots in advance, but I have since been able to mount my phone over my camera as a sort of larger screened, floating view screen. Now, whether I video record or shoot stills, I'm getting a variety of additional benefits. The primary is the ability to calibrate the app to emulate my camera's aspect ratio and lens type (even my zoom lens) on the screen. Now when I shoot a series of fast shots, the phone's screen shows me all the data without the repetitive blanking out that I get from the camera's view screen and view finder. Since the ways my modern camera can shoot are in selectable, programmable modes, I dont really need to see my camera's data unless I'm changing the settings. Cadrage allows me to focus on the action (and more of it, since my phone shows the whole, zoomed out image with the marked levels of available zoom, taken from my lens's exterior markings, which Cadrage allowed me to customize!) and operate my equipment while looking at an UNINTERRUPTED view of everything!

S70%
by S####:

I like this app.

S70%
by S####:

Is this app compatible with a Galaxy S2? Seems like every camera format I choose the frame looks the same

S70%
by S####:

I don't know how I went even a week without it. Amazing. They breakdown so many more specific camera, lens, aspect ratio and adapter options than the "other" viewfinder app. Just amazing. I wish you could specify where the stills will be saved.

S70%
by S####:

Love this app, but would be amazing and awesome to see speed booster adapter's included

K70%
by K####:

Good for Directors

G70%
by G####:

This is why I got this App. Profiling mobile phone cameras with their rather narrow FOV but with an wide angle adapter attached helps w/ wide angles from 35mm and wider. A next feature should be the possibility to save a profile of your mobile with a fish eye attached and one without. B/c I don't always carry the fish eye and you have to re-calibrate once you've used your mobile again w/ the original settings. :-(

N70%
by N####:

Using this app for location scouting is incredibly useful. Even when shooting run and gun I can quickly frame up shots using exactly the camera /lens settings I want and send to camera crew with all info and GPS data. Keeps everyone on the same page and I believe we can get more done in a day with better footage. Awesome!

C70%
by C####:

Works well whit my Samsung Galaxy Note 3, no problems so far and helps me alot whit scouting and shooting. Defenatly good stuff!

L70%
by L####:

Proper if you down with that

X70%
by X####:

The most powerful director's viewfinder for Android with responsible developers.

X70%
by X####:

Excellent app...

V70%
by V####:

The Sony A7s will never sell as many as the Alexia or Phantom, too bad its not supported.

X70%
by X####:

.... but it kept coming up wrong. I was measuring out the precise distance to the object and all, but never would it show me the right aspect ratio afterwards. Even with something as 1:2.20 I would still get a square aspect ratio with blue bars in the sides... What the hell to do, it's paid for, now I want it to work!

I70%
by I####:

Like this. Just wondering if this apps could record a video

U70%
by U####:

I find it very useful. Must have for a director.

N70%
by N####:

Good for Directors

U70%
by U####:

I think this app will help me during location hunting.

U70%
by U####:

I Love It.

U70%
by U####:

must have

Z70%
by Z####:

On the last film I shot, I had the director and myself use this app, I did not have to use my camera during prep, nor did I have to hand it to him just so he could "see the shot" he could do it with his phone and take a photo for reference with the correct aspect ratio and focal length. I was great for me as I don't like handing a $10k camera an lens to someone who is just going to wave it around on set to see what things look like. I am thinking of getting a wide angle supplementary lens for my phone to extend the range of focal lengths, but the "stock" lens is quite good for super 35. MJM


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