# FocalWell 66: Medium Format — Waist-level 6x6 film camera

> Waist-level 6x6 film camera (iPhone/iPad app by Sezer Kusku.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/focalwell-66-medium-format/id6806086933 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sezer Kusku](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801811659)
- Category: Photo & Video, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 20 MB
- Languages: American English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean and 7 more
- Released: 2026-09-12
- Data updated: 2026-10-01
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/focalwell-66-medium-format/id6806086933/reviews.md

## What is FocalWell 66?

Your phone takes pictures. FocalWell takes photographs.

FocalWell 66 is a camera app that brings the working method of classic 6×6 medium format cameras to iPhone. The frame is composed not on the screen but in a waist-level finder: square format, ground glass, focusing aids and, optionally, the laterally reversed image of a real camera.

THE FILM IS CHOSEN BEFORE THE SHOT
FocalWell applies no filters. Sixty-three film stocks — colour negatives, slides, black-and-whites and the app's own blends — each with its own character. The film is loaded before shooting; the frame is formed with that film's colour, contrast and grain.

NOT A FILTER — AN EMULSION
Grain follows exposure: strongest in the midtones, thinning out in blown highlights and blocked shadows — what silver actually does. Halation is separate from bloom; only genuinely bright areas scatter, and because the red channel spreads wider it leaves a warm fringe. Every roll is a batch: two rolls of the same stock are never identical, and the colour balance shifts a notch. The batch code appears in the film picker and on each frame's info panel.

SEVEN LENSES
Normal, wide, portrait, soft focus, tilt-shift, fisheye and a single-element antique meniscus. Each has its own rendering, edge behaviour and distortion; none corrects the frame or the faces in it.

TWELVE FRAMES PER ROLL
As on 120 film. When the counter reaches twelve, the roll is wound on and a new one loaded. Every frame is recorded with its roll and frame number; the gallery is a contact sheet, not an endless list.

DEVELOPMENT TIME
A frame does not appear immediately. It waits in the tank for the chosen time: pre-soak, developer, stop, fix, wash, dry. A notification is sent when the film is ready. With the time set to zero, the frame appears at once. Development can be pushed or pulled, from minus two to plus two stops. Pushing raises contrast and grain and blocks up the shadows; pulling softens and refines. The finder shows the chosen value. The decision is stored per frame and cannot be undone — film develops once.

MANUAL CONTROLS
Shutter speed, ISO and aperture dials. In bulb mode the shutter is opened and closed with the release, or timed exposures of 2, 4 and 8 seconds are used; holding the release and sliding up locks it open. Double exposure lays a new frame over a base frame. Flash works continuously or at the moment of exposure. Optional RAW capture, on supported models, processes the frame without Apple's sharpening and tone mapping.

DARKROOM
Every frame can be enlarged, re-developed with a different film, adjusted for light and tone, saved to Photos or shared. Frames stay on the device: no account, no ads, no analytics.

FOCALWELL PRO
The app is free: two films and the unfiltered digital look, two lenses, and a limited number of long and double exposures. The free tier gives each film one roll — 12 frames on the free films, 24 on the unfiltered digital look. Pro unlocks all sixty-three films, seven lenses, unlimited bulb and double exposure, and a film stock that keeps growing; new films and lenses arrive without an app update. Pro is offered two ways: a monthly or yearly subscription — the yearly plan starts with a free trial; cancel before the trial ends and nothing is charged — or a one-time lifetime purchase that never renews. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and is managed from the App Store account.

Privacy: https://focalwell.github.io/gizlilik.html
Terms: https://focalwell.github.io/kosullar.html

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FocalWell Pro — Yearly | $19.99 | per year |
| FocalWell Pro Monthly | $4.99 | per month |



## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.2 — 2026-09-21

This release is about how film behaves.

Grain now follows exposure: strongest in the midtones, thinning out in blown highlights and blocked shadows. Halation is separate from bloom — only genuinely bright areas scatter, leaving a warm fringe, and the rest of the frame no longer fogs. Every roll is now a batch: two rolls of the same stock are never identical, and the colour balance shifts a notch. The batch code appears in the film picker and on each frame's info panel.

Development push arrived: minus two to plus two stops. Pushing raises contrast and grain, pulling softens. The finder shows it too. The decision cannot be undone — film develops once.

Now in seventeen languages. German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Czech were added. New films from the remote catalogue now arrive in your language too.

Accessibility: the shutter and ISO dials are adjustable with VoiceOver, text contrast meets WCAG AA, and the mounted lens badge reads without colour.

Double-tapping the finder switches between the square and the full frame; a corner marker points this out on the first few launches.

### 1.1.1 — 2026-09-18

This update fixes a freeze.

Moving quickly through the film strip could freeze the viewfinder, and pressing the shutter then saved that frozen frame. The stream now recovers on its own; when it can't, the finder says so and no stale frame is ever saved.

A frame shot right after switching lenses no longer comes from the previous lens.

With raw capture off, the camera holds fewer resources.

Three frames in the film strip on the purchase screen sat under the wrong film name; they are back where they belong.

### 1.1 — 2026-09-16

The aperture ring turns for real now. Drag it: the numbers roll across the barrel, your stop settles under the marker, and the frame is exposed at that aperture — open at f/2.8, closed down at f/16. It changes the picture in manual exposure and on a sample scene too.

Ten new films. Four of them fill the empty ends of the catalogue: Dye Bleach 50 (a slide printed straight onto paper, the most saturated line here), Nocturne 1600 (night, cool and soft), Pushed 3200 (pushed two stops) and Amber 500T (tungsten amber). Alongside them: False Color, Instant 800, Reel 250, Survey 100, Ortho 25 and Wet Plate. The shelf is now 63 stocks.

The edge-label setting applies to new frames as well. No more running every photograph through the editor to turn it off.

FocalWell Pro can now be bought outright: lifetime access, nothing renews.

Swipe between frames in the darkroom: left for the next, right for the previous; pull down to return to the strip. When your first frame comes out of the tank, you're asked once whether to back up to Photos — with iCloud Photos on, that's your backup. An edited frame can be saved again.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-12

No release notes.

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