Halide + Kino

Requiem for the Rangefinder: An iPhone Air Review Last week I set out to write a few thousand words on the iPhone Air, but it turns out I only need three: the lesser iPhone. Compared to the Pro and baseline models, it has fewer cameras and a smaller ...

New: @sandofsky.com reviews the iPhone Air camera in “Requiem for a Rangefinder".

All shots taken on iPhone with Halide Mark III or shot on film. www.lux.camera/requiem-ipho...

we always have to get the phones on day 1 to issue fixes - updates are on the way!

iPhone 17 Pro Camera Review: Rule of Three iPhone 17 Pro is here, a big upgrade and makeover of the iPhone and its cameras. Is it really as big of a deal as they say?

Our iPhone 17 Pro camera review has arrived! www.lux.camera/iphone-17-pr...

iOS 26 and iPhone 17 Pro are here. Here’s the latest on our updates - and a first tiny peek at Halide Mark III www.lux.camera/rewrites-and...

Stay tuned for our iPhone camera reviews — there might be two this year.

iPhone 17 Pro is going to be a camera beast. ProRes RAW, 48MP cameras all around, overhauled processing pipeline for digital zoom, vapor chamber cooling for extended shooting.

iPhone Air gets a single, large 48MP camera. With a new, more AI-heavy 2× pipeline and discrete crop modes.

iPhone 17s get a square, doubled-size front-facing camera sensor. Makes a lot of sense, and will get a ton of use by users with the Center Stage feature auto-framing the shot.

Good morning - taking a break from our hard work on Halide Mark III to comment on any new camera news. 👀

Who’s excited?

exciting!

📣 Introducing Kino 1.3, a big update to Kino with powerful creator features:

Audio Control — you can now toggle automatic or manual selection of any audio source; expanded external drive support; frame drop detection and more!

Grab Kino 1.3, in the App Store now: shotwithkino.com/download

Gorgeous shot!

Physicality: the new age of UI There’s a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let’s imagine what’s (or what could be) next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads.

New on our blog: @sdw.bsky.social chronicles the design ages of iOS and visualizes what the next UI age might look and feel like. www.lux.camera/physicality-...

New on our blog: @sdw chronicles the design ages of iOS and visualizes what the next UI age might look and feel like. www.lux.camera/physicality-...

A year ago, we launched Kino — Halide’s video sidekick. We couldn’t have imagined the incredible rollercoaster of its first year: topping the App Store charts, a cameo in the iPhone 16 keynote, and winning the App Store Awards as iPhone App of the Year!

Happy birthday, Kino 🥳

What is HDR, anyway? It's not you. HDR confuses tons of people. In this post, we finally explain what HDR actually means, the problem it presents, and three ways to solve it.

It's not you: HDR confuses tons of people. In our new blog post, @sandofsky.com finally explains what HDR actually means, the problem it presents, and three ways - including our new Halide way - to solve it. www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/

Love seeing Spectre used in the wild!

(Fun fact: We shipped Spectre right before the pandemic and had a lot of fun marketing planned around ‘make crowds disappear in touristy places!’ - that wasn’t quite necessary in 2020 🥲)

Along with our review, check out the latest update to Halide in the App Store, which now supports and has some adjustments to best work with this fantastic lil phone!📱

In the land of the multi-camera phones, can a one-eyed king rule? We dig into the iPhone 16e with this mini-camera review on our blog: www.lux.camera/iphone-16e-c...

Last chance to get a question in for us to answer in our lil’ iPhone 16e review.

It’s iPhone 16e week, but let’s take a moment to honor the finest iPhone with a home button: the iPhone 7! Maybe the nicest iPhone ever?

Dylan McDonald (@dylan.mcd8) shot this utterly gorgeous portrait of the 7 series lineup. We’ll always be very partial to the Jet Black — the best iPhone finish.

Cool observation by @gruber.foo: iPhone 16 wallpapers match their rear camera layout from 1 orb on iPhone 16e all the way to 3 for iPhone 16 Pro

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iPhone 16e is here! Packing a “48Mp dual camera”. We’re going to investigate!

true!

Now that we're a bit later into the lifetime of iPhone 16, we're curious to hear how you use the Camera Control. Is it a part of your workflow? Love it or hate it?

Happy Valentine’s Day, folks. Shoot your shot 💘

Some of the 52-week creative challenges of the last 4 weeks! This week’s theme is ‘Speed’ - take a shot and share it to participate and have a shot at winning some really cool merch.

Some more details in our Discord. 💬 discord.gg/eCCSDqUp

Amazing JUSTICE show in Lyon.

Though WWW/Iris remains my favorite, really loved the intensity and spectacle of this one.

Can't wait to see them again.

📷 shot with @halideapp.bsky.social + @usedarkroom.bsky.social

Do you like manual settings, Kino, and those two things combined? Great — hop into our Discord! We’ll be doing one of our first Early Access TestFlight invite rounds: discord.gg/FVFmSUbfuZ