I said that the original Mattebox may be "the best iPhone camera app around, but then I went back to using the iPhone’s built-in camera for everything an doing the edits in post.
But Mattebox 2 has just launched, and it is certainly good enough to tempt me back. It keeps the same super-simple interface, and adds Lightroom filter export and exposure compensation.
Mattebox brings your iPhone much closer to the control you get with a regular camera. Even the shutter release has been rethought: you touch it lock the current focus and exposure settings, and then slide to take teh shot. It's like half-pressing and recomposing on an SLR.
The new Mattebox adds a whole range of cool new filterin options, which you can save as presets and store in iCloud, or share with others. These include the usual vignttes, brightness and so on, but also a full color curves tool that lets you tweak all three RGB color channels. You can also add film grain, tweak color balance and a lot more.
Photoshop filters can be imported into the new Mattebox 2. So with this app you can tranfer those filters to use on your iPhone or iPad. How impressive is that? Many were saying that the original Mattebox was one of the best out there, but the secon version has everyone readjusting their previous thought.