Camera & lens database now updated weekly

Artemis now refreshes its camera and lens database every week. New bodies, new lenses, new formats, all delivered in the background without an app update.

What shipped

• Weekly database refresh. Open Artemis any day of the week and the catalog reflects what manufacturers have actually announced.
• Background delivery. New entries arrive without an App Store update. Nothing to download, nothing to approve, nothing to wait for.
• Redesigned picker. Make, model, mode, shooting format, and extraction now sit in parallel columns. Less drilling, fewer taps to land on the right rig.
• Coverage across formats. Cinema cameras, broadcast cameras, mirrorless bodies, and the lens systems that go with them, all on the same cadence.

Why it matters

The old process was tedious and slow. Specs lived in an Apple Numbers file, maintained by multiple people, converted to CSV, imported into the app, then sent out as a TestFlight build for internal QA. Fixes meant another build, another round of verification. A new camera body could be on the market for months, sometimes a full year, before it landed in the public catalog.

The new pipeline is remote. One person owns the catalog, edits land immediately, and there’s no translation step between what a manufacturer announces and what shows up in Artemis. New entries are data, not code, so they don’t wait on a binary release.