Acetate vs Eclat

The Digital Darkroom for Purists. Acetate bridges pure RAW capture and the soul of analog film — now for stills and motion. Built for image-makers who understand that a frame is made, not taken. Every adjustment runs on-device: no cloud, no account, no tracking. PURE RAW CAPTURE Shoot Apple ProRAW (DNG) on every supported iPhone. Acetate bypasses standard processing and writes the sensor's uncompressed data straight to your library, preserving every stop of dynamic range for post. PRO SHOOTING MODES Full manual or assisted: Auto, Program (P), Shutter Priority (S), ISO Priority, Manual (M), Night, and Long Exposure to 30 seconds. Swap ultra-wide, wide, and telephoto with a tap, or flip to the front camera. Self-timer and burst on the hardware shutter. MOTION — SHOOT CINE Video with the same discipline as stills. Full manual ISO, shutter, white balance, and focus. Up to 4K, high frame rates on supported devices, 10-bit Apple Log, ProRes 422, or HEVC. Cinematic stabilisation, Cine mode with shutter-angle control, broadcast timecode, and multi-source audio with a live meter. Bake a LUT into the file, or keep it monitor-only and grade later. THE VIDEO EDITOR Open any clip — from your library or shared straight into Acetate. Trim with frame-accurate handles, scrub and step a frame at a time, apply any look or your own .cube LUT, push exposure and tone, hold to compare, and export at source quality. The same colour pipeline as the photo editor, frame by frame. FILM LOOKS Twenty 3D LUTs in two families: research-informed film-stock emulations (Soft 400, Warm 200, Slide 100, Mono, Noir…) and art-directed looks (Teal & Orange, Bleach Bypass, '90s Cinema, Golden Hour…). Press and hold to preview live. OPEN LUT Tap any filter and the editor sliders move to reflect the look — see exactly what each LUT is doing and tweak from there. A tick mark shows the filter's value; reset snaps back, long-press clears to zero. Works for built-in films, looks, and imported .cube LUTs. BAKE YOUR OWN LUTs Save any edit as a portable .cube LUT and apply it to photos and videos with one tap — or load it in the camera and shoot your own signature look. Import from Files, iCloud, or AirDrop, in the camera or the editor. Export to Lightroom, Premiere, or DaVinci. THE EDITOR Full-strength tools: three-way colour grading wheels with per-range luma, OkLab perceptual HSL, RGB curves, split toning, filmic highlight rolloff, dehaze, texture, edge-aware denoise, and selective masks — radial, linear-gradient, and one-tap Subject / Person / Background / Sky via Apple's Vision framework. ON-DEVICE INTELLIGENCE Smart tools that run on your iPhone — and explain themselves. Smart LUT writes a per-scene recipe, then drops it onto editable sliders so you see and adjust every move. Plus auto-enhance, auto-straighten, and one-tap Object Removal (A15 / M1 or newer). PRO TOOLS Live RGB and luminance histograms, a luma waveform, zebras, false-colour exposure, focus peaking, a manual-focus loupe, framing guides, and a haptic level indicator. Continuous Kelvin/tint white balance with lock, plus AE lock — in photo and video, no drift mid-shot. PRIVACY FOCUSED Your photos and videos are yours. No account, no cloud, no analytics. Location is used strictly for EXIF geotagging on what you capture, and never leaves your device. Capture, edit, AI, and export all work offline. Don't just filter. Develop.

See the look before you shoot. Eclat is a cinematic iPhone camera with its own RAW developing engine. Your style is live in the viewfinder while you frame, and every photo is saved with its untouched original inside. No look is ever final. STYLES, NOT FILTERS Seven styles, each a complete photographic development with its own tones, colours and grain: • Cine: night film for tungsten light, teal shadows, glowing reds • Chrome: a faded slide, muted colour, strong primaries • Positive: cool, clean slide film with natural greens • Portra: soft portrait negative, kind to skin • B&W: smooth black and white with wide latitude • Noir: pushed black and white, deep blacks and grit • Neutral: the scene as the sensor saw it What you see in the viewfinder is what you get: the preview and the saved photo use the same colour maths. ITS OWN DARKROOM On a Pro iPhone, shoot RAW and Eclat develops the sensor's data itself, with no smoothing, no oversharpening and no HDR look. Prefer Apple's processing, with night mode and every lens? Switch in one tap, and Eclat styles that image with the same engine. EVERY CONTROL UNDER YOUR THUMB The whole viewfinder is the control panel. Each setting has its own column: slide up or down anywhere in it, like turning a dial. Lens, exposure and style are there from the start; add white balance and manual focus in Settings. Tap to focus, hold to lock exposure and focus. No menus, and your eyes never leave the picture. THE ORIGINAL, ALWAYS Your photos go to the Photos library in your style. Tap Edit, then Revert, and the original is back, today or in ten years. Crops to 4:3, 3:2 or 16:9 can be undone too. READY WHEN YOU ARE Open Eclat from the Lock Screen, Control Center, the Action button or Camera Control, with your settings. Live Photos keep the style in motion. Grid, level and self-timer included. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no tracking, no upload. Eclat works offline. Free, with no ads and no subscription. If Eclat becomes your everyday camera, you can support its development with an optional tip.