FilmCamera
Photo & Video · iPhoneShoot like film. On your phone.
FilmCamera is a camera that commits. Pick a look, frame it, and shoot — grain, halation, color response and print borders are rendered live in a custom Metal pipeline, so the viewfinder is the photograph. It also shoots video, a 1999 camcorder tape treatment, an ultrawide cinema format, and instant-print photo strips.
Phone cameras are technically excellent and emotionally flat. Filters get bolted on after the fact, so you shoot one picture and judge a different one — and the app that renders them usually wants your library in its cloud.
Key features
61 looks, organized
A browsable catalogue grouped by family, with a favourites shortlist on the viewfinder rim. Every look is a portable recipe file — nothing is hardcoded, nothing is locked.
The viewfinder is the photo
Preview, capture and library re-render all run the exact same Metal pipeline. Divergence between what you framed and what you got is treated as a bug, and pinned by byte-identical determinism tests.
Video, and a tape you remember
Record with the grade baked in, plus a full camcorder treatment — CCD optics, tape artifacts, a dot-matrix HUD and its own SD recording profile — and ULTRAWIDE, a 128:27 cinema crop taken from the sensor's best preset so nothing is upscaled.
Prints and photo booths
Instant-print borders in three stocks, a 2–6 frame booth strip on one paper card, and a handwritten note in the bottom lip — written before the shutter, in ballpen blue, with the date.
Bring your own frame
Import any picture from your library and grade it with the same looks and six live sliders. The picked asset stays your original — referenced, never copied or rewritten.
Share the recipe, not the file
Any look travels as a QR code or a recipe file, so a look you tuned on a rooftop can be on someone else's phone before you leave it.
How it's built
Custom Metal shaders, not Core Image filters, with a 60fps preview target and sub-100ms shutter response on an iPhone 12 floor. Zero third-party dependencies, and no analytics, telemetry or crash-reporting SDK anywhere in the binary. Every shipped look is covered by a snapshot render test.
Data Not Collected. Frames are captured and developed entirely on your iPhone. The rendering engine contains no networking — nothing you shoot leaves your device unless you share it yourself.
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