{"id":260913,"date":"2026-06-01T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/pocketop-app-brings-lens-framing-tool-to-iphone-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T07:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:40:32","slug":"pocketop-app-brings-lens-framing-tool-to-iphone-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/pocketop-app-brings-lens-framing-tool-to-iphone-news\/","title":{"rendered":"PocketOP app brings lens framing tool to iPhone | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadcastnow.co.uk\/tech\/pocketop-app-brings-lens-framing-tool-to-iphone\/5217286.article\">PocketOP app brings lens framing tool to iPhone | News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadcastnow.co.uk\/tech\/pocketop-app-brings-lens-framing-tool-to-iphone\/5217286.article\">https:\/\/www.broadcastnow.co.uk\/tech\/pocketop-app-brings-lens-framing-tool-to-iphone\/5217286.article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 06:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.broadcastnow.co.uk\">www.broadcastnow.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\">\n<p>iPhone app PocketOP\u00a0launches on the App Store today (1 June 2026), enabling broadcast operators, camera directors, and location scouts to see exactly what any lens would frame from a given position.<\/p>\n<p>PocketOP\u00a0overlays real-time field-of-view brackets on the iPhone camera feed, and is dedicated to broadcast and PTZ workflows.<\/p>\n<p>The app has been\u00a0created by Dutch freelance multicamera operator Martijn van der Linden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_1229\" src=\"https:\/\/d11p0alxbet5ud.cloudfront.net\/Pictures\/480xany\/2\/4\/0\/1480240_img_1229_124029.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d11p0alxbet5ud.cloudfront.net\/Pictures\/480xany\/2\/4\/0\/1480240_img_1229_124029.jpg 480w,https:\/\/d11p0alxbet5ud.cloudfront.net\/Pictures\/600xany\/2\/4\/0\/1480240_img_1229_124029.jpg 600w,https:\/\/d11p0alxbet5ud.cloudfront.net\/Pictures\/780xany\/2\/4\/0\/1480240_img_1229_124029.jpg 780w\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"1280\" height=\"589\"\/><\/p>\n<h3>Key features:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Real-time FOV brackets overlaid on the iPhone camera feed, showing both ends of the zoom range simultaneously<\/li>\n<li>Matched to the correct sensor format<\/li>\n<li>Scout lists to save and share findings from a location visit<\/li>\n<li>Custom lens entry for glass not in the database<\/li>\n<li>Screenshot capture that includes FOV overlay<\/li>\n<li>Frame dimensions overlay; a setting where you can see the size in meters of the frame at a set distance<\/li>\n<li>Compare lens, a second FOV bracket in a different colour that allows for lens comparison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"picture\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_1226\" src=\"https:\/\/d11p0alxbet5ud.cloudfront.net\/Pictures\/480xany\/2\/3\/9\/1480239_img_1226_333761.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d11p0alxbet5ud.cloudfront.net\/Pictures\/480xany\/2\/3\/9\/1480239_img_1226_333761.jpg 480w,https:\/\/d11p0alxbet5ud.cloudfront.net\/Pictures\/600xany\/2\/3\/9\/1480239_img_1226_333761.jpg 600w,https:\/\/d11p0alxbet5ud.cloudfront.net\/Pictures\/780xany\/2\/3\/9\/1480239_img_1226_333761.jpg 780w\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"1280\" height=\"589\"\/><\/p>\n<h3>PocketOP includes a database of 611 lenses and 123 PTZ cameras, including:\u00a0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Canon CJ, HJ and UHD-DIGISUPER broadcast lenses<\/li>\n<li>Fujinon XA, UA and ZA series<\/li>\n<li>PTZ cameras from Sony, Panasonic, Canon, BirdDog, JVC, and others<\/li>\n<li>Cine lenses from ARRI, Cooke, Zeiss, Leitz, DZOFilm, and others<\/li>\n<li>New lenses and PTZ cameras will be added as they are released<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The app is available for free, including four lenses and one PTZ camera. The full database costs \u20ac9.99\/year (introductory price during June 2026).\u00a0The app requires iOS 17 or later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadcastnow.co.uk\/tech\/pocketop-app-brings-lens-framing-tool-to-iphone\/5217286.article\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PocketOP app brings lens framing tool to iPhone | News https:\/\/www.broadcastnow.co.uk\/tech\/pocketop-app-brings-lens-framing-tool-to-iphone\/5217286.article Publish Date: 2026-06-01 06:53:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/d11p0alxbet5ud.cloudfront.net\/Pictures\/1024x536\/2\/3\/8\/1480238_img_1222_460489.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[69,73],"class_list":["post-260913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-ios","tag-ios-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260915,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260913\/revisions\/260915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}