Acetate vs Campera

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.

The camera you’ll actually use. Campera is a point-and-shoot with hand-graded film styles baked in. Pull it out, snap, pocket. No roll to develop, no second-guessing. Photos that already feel finished. // Five ways to shoot · Espresso — warm, sun-bleached Mediterranean light · Anchoa — cool, hushed shadows and silvered midtones · Olivo — dense, dark and grainy, with real 35mm grit · Burro — bold, warm, vintage color density · Calamaro — inky black & white with a warm twist // Half Frame Shoot two frames side by side on a strip of film, with real film camera edge markings down the side. Every shot knows its roll and frame number, printed on the edge and saved with the photo. All of it stays on your device. Free to use, as much as you like. // What it does · Captures high resolution in 4:5 · Live grading — the look is in the photo, not applied after · Premium haptics and animations · Tap to focus, exposure control, level and grid · Pinch or swipe to zoom, tap to hop between optical lenses · Shoot with the front camera · Saves straight to your camera roll · Shutter from the volume buttons, Camera Control, Lock Screen, Control Center or the Action Button · Location tags on photos, kept on-device · Daily photo prompts and a Home Screen widget, if you want the nudge // Fun extras Core features are always yours. These help support the app. · Swap the camera chassis color · Motion — real-world movement in Campera’s signature styles, stacked frames or continuous long exposure · Double Exposure — stack two shots into one · Tilt Shift — miniaturize your subject with a focus band you place yourself · More Half Frame formats, and a clean edge · Or take everything in one bundle // What it doesn’t do · No subscriptions · No notifications · No accounts · No followers · No overkill · No feed · No ads Campera. For people who love point-and-shoots.