Description
‘Best iOS apps of 2016’– Cult of Mac
‘If you love the look of classic film, or just want to find out a bit more about how different film stocks impacts images, this is the app for you.’– Popular Photography
With film live-preview, gesture controlled white balance and exposure, true-to-film presets, custom curves, and batch editing, you’ll discover the power of your iPhone!
FEATURES:
● Gesture Based Controls
Dial in the perfect shot quickly with gesture based white balance and exposure, highlight clipping, 2-Axis Level, Rangefinder mode, and quick review.
● Non-Destructive True-to-Film Presets
Our presets are born from an intensive side-by-side comparison process between actual film scans from a Fuji Frontier Scanner, and digital images shot with the iPhone. Mastin Labs’ proprietary color science makes it so no other app can match film as accurately as Filmborn.
● Curves
Filmborn’s curves control is powerful. The curves tool gives you the ability to control the details of the shadows, midtones, and highlights, allowing maximum creative control.
● Tone Profiles
We’ve included real scanning tone profiles such as all hard, shadow soft, and shadow hard, to help with tricky lighting situations.
● Custom Camera Kits
With 4 viewfinders, 3 virtual lenses, and 9 true-to-film presets, you can create camera kits for specific uses, such as a street photography kit, or a large format landscape kit. Effortlessly switch between your kits with a simple swipe in camera mode.
● Learn to Shoot Real Film
Filmborn™ is designed to bridge the analog history of film with its digital future. Built not only to emulate film, Filmborn also educates digital natives on the techniques and history of film. Users will find education on film photography peppered throughout the app, and ongoing education in our Filmborn User Group on Facebook.
Have any questions? Contact us!
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facebook.com/filmbornapp
What's New in Version 1.2
Since releasing Filmborn just over six weeks ago, we have seen an amazing response to the app. Our Facebook group has quickly grown and is overflowing with stunning photos.
Many of you have sent us great feedback that we will use to guide future updates and feature. There is so much more to come and with your support it will all come to Filmborn sooner than later.
Please join the Filmborn User Group on Facebook and share your work with our amazing and supportive community!
IMPROVEMENTS
• Added support for the 56mm telephoto lens on the iPhone 7 Plus.
• Increased performance and speed
• Added highlight and shadow recover sliders in the Develop panel of the darkroom.
• Added ability to name your custom camera kits.
• Added badges to identify each slider in the darkroom.
• Now use 3D touch from the app icon to launch Filmborn with a selected camera kit.
NOTABLE CHANGES
We’ve removed the tone profiles from the develop panel of the darkroom in favor of giving you even finer control via Highlight and Shadow recovery sliders.
BUG FIXES
• Fixed a known issue where some images were not fully rendering in the library.
• Various small tweaks and bug fixes.
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Customer Reviews
Shoot more, edit less and achieve consistency!
Since I started using Filmborn I’ve seen a huge improvement in the quality of my mobile photography. My work is now remarkably consistent and it takes very little effort to maintain that consistency. The ability to shoot with a live film preview and adjust the exposure and white balance in the camera makes it so much easier to get a perfectly exposed photo from the start. If I need edit the photo after that it’s only small adjustments which take no time at all to do. The darkroom in Filmborn is by far my favorite photo editing experience in any app I’ve used. I love the curves tool! It’s efficient how the darkroom controls are grouped together and that I only need to save once. I find myself shooting more and editing less. Filmborn has taught me to look at my iPhone as a professional camera. It really is! I take my mobile photos more seriously now. Out of the items available in the app to purchase I think the curves tool and the custom camera kits are required purchases to really see the full power of this app. Some things I’d like to see added in the future is the ability to delete from the library and more films to purchase.
Best. Editing/Camera. App. Ever.
I absolutely love this app. I have presets from Mastin Labs for my photography and I love that I can now match my iPhone photos to DSLR photos. But for anyone who's not a photographer should definitely get this app because it has in camera actions where you manually focus and has three lenses which is super fun and looks way better than normal iPhone camera. I've told all my non-photography friends about it and they've all downloaded it and love it. So if you're unsure about this app I would say go with your gut and get it since all the presets are free unlike some other photography apps.
Realtor
Life changing. I'm now the family historian! I love taking pics of my kids with this app because it actually helps me take better pics. I use it in place of the native camera because I truly love how using the app allows me to make a better photo before I click! The grid is incredible and made me realize how vital it is to keep things level. I never even realized the impact of this prior to the app. Also, the custom curves really help with evening out the color on the pics blown out by the sun. I love it!
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- Free
- Category: Photo & Video
- Updated: Dec 23, 2016
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 142 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Mastin Labs Inc.
- © Mastin Labs Inc.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPad Air, iPad Air Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 2 Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 Wi-Fi + Cellular, 12.9-inch iPad Pro, 12.9-inch iPad Pro Wi-Fi + Cellular, 9.7-inch iPad Pro, 9.7-inch iPad Pro Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (5th generation), iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular (5th generation), and iPod touch (6th generation).
Top In-App Purchases
- Curves Tool$2.99
- Additional Custom Kits$1.99
- Rangefinder$1.99

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