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Latent is a complete photography studio for iPhone — every capture mode, every control, every classic look, in one camera. THIRTEEN CAPTURE MODES • Photo — ProRAW, 12 / 24 / 48 MP, full manual or one-tap auto • Video — H.264, HEVC, ProRes, with Apple Log and HDR • Cinematic — iPhone's depth-tracked rack focus, in-app • Dual — back wide + front simultaneously, with a resizable picture-in-picture • Slo-mo — high frame rate, instant slow-motion playback • Hyperlapse — stabilised time-lapse for handheld smooth motion • Long Exposure — silky water, light trails, painted-light effects • Panorama — frame-stitched sweeps with horizon assist • Portrait — depth-aware background blur with adjustable strength • Single Take — fire one tap, get a curated mini-shoot • Night — five scene presets (Auto / Stars / Moon / Aurora / Night HDR) with Vision-aligned frame stacking and a tripod indicator • Zoom — Binoculars, Telescope, and Magnifier modes for up to 100× reach • Roll — disposable 24-exposure film roll: shoot now, develop later TEN BUILT-IN LOOKS Neutral, Cinema, Portra, Tri-X, Faded, Noir, Ocean, Disposable, Polaroid, VHS. Import your own .cube LUTs for unlimited additional looks. PRO CONTROLS • Manual ISO, shutter speed, white-balance temperature + tint, lens focus position • Live Histogram, Zebra clipping warnings, Focus Peaking, virtual horizon Level • Focus Loupe — 2.5× magnified ring at the focus point for precise manual focus • Virtual ND (1–6 stops) for daylight long exposures • Bloom, Halation, and Virtual Reflector (face-aware soft-light fill) • Codec picker: H.264, HEVC, ProRes • Apple Log capture for grading • Geotagging with a visible privacy indicator • Built-in EXIF metadata viewer HARDWARE INTEGRATION • iPhone 16+ Camera Control: half-press AF, full-press capture, slide for zoom • AirPods Pro stem press → shutter • Volume buttons → shutter or look cycle • Lock Screen Cinematic widget for one-tap recording QUALITY MODES • Standard • Night Stack — Vision-aligned multi-frame averaging • HDR — exposure-stacked merge PRIVACY Latent is local-first. Captures stay on-device. No accounts, no cloud uploads, no analytics. Location is only embedded in EXIF if you explicitly turn on the GPS toggle. REQUIREMENTS iOS 18 or later. iPhone XS or later for full feature set. Dual-cam requires iPhone 11 or later. iOS 26 Cinematic video requires compatible hardware. Latent — what your camera was always supposed to be. SUBSCRIPTION & PRICING • Latent ($9.99 USD) — one-time purchase, unlocks the Latent tier. • Latent Pro Annual ($24.99 USD/year) — auto-renewing subscription. Renews at the same price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. • Latent Pro Lifetime ($99.99 USD) — one-time purchase, no renewal. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Terms of Use: https://mobilealchemy.co/latent/terms Privacy Policy: https://mobilealchemy.co/latent/privacy

AstroLens turns your iPhone into a fully manual astrophotography camera, designed for afocal shooting through the Vaonis Hestia smartphone telescope. THE PROBLEM IT SOLVES When your iPhone sits on a telescope eyepiece, the native Camera app silently switches from the telephoto lens to the wide lens with a digital crop, because autofocus cannot converge through the optics. AstroLens locks the physical lens of your choice (the optical telephoto by default) and never switches away from it. Zoom stays at 1.0×: pure optical magnification, no digital crop. FULLY MANUAL, FULLY DETERMINISTIC • Manual focus slider with focus peaking and a magnifying loupe • One-tap mirror flip to correct the telescope's inverted image (preview and captures) • Manual shutter speed and ISO, bounded by the real sensor limits • Locked white balance for consistent colors across shots • Live histogram to nail the exposure MADE FOR THE NIGHT • Sun, Moon, Landscape and Deep Sky modes with sensible starting presets • Mandatory solar-filter confirmation before Sun mode • Crosshair, telescope-field circle and composition grid overlays • Red-on-black night theme to preserve your dark adaptation • 2-second self-timer and volume-button shutter to avoid vibrations • Apple Watch remote shutter: trigger from your wrist without touching the iPhone, with the mode, shutter speed and ISO on your watch • Burst capture for stacking deep-sky images • Apple ProRAW support (on compatible iPhones) plus HEIF • Captures saved to a dedicated “Hestia” album FIND YOUR TARGET • Sun/Moon alignment assistant: on-screen arrow plus turn and tilt guidance, computed from your location and the phone's motion sensors, fully offline • Works uncalibrated right away: the compass gets you close on its own; then center the target once in the eyepiece view and tap Calibrate for degree-level pointing • Adapter geometry is configurable (Hestia's mirrored optics by default) AstroLens works on any recent iPhone: without a telephoto lens it locks the main wide lens instead, still with zero automatic switching. Vaonis and Hestia are trademarks of their respective owner. AstroLens is an independent app, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Vaonis.