Expand your iOS device’s built-in camera
Developed by the founder of the popular and top-notch cinematic video camera named FiLMiC Pro, FiLMiC or published as FiLMiC Firstlight – Photo App in the App Store is a photography application that allows you to expand the functionality of your iOS device’s camera. This intuitive tool will enable you to apply resolution, frame rate, color temperature as well as adjust aperture and focus off the cuff. With the fresh and custom film emulations the app provides, you could get any look you want to showcase immediately without going through the difficulty of photo editing.
How do you use FiLMiC Firstlight?
Once you launch the FiLMiC Firstlight app, you will immediately notice its clean and well-designed user interface. The viewport takes up most of the screen space, while the shutter button is at the bottom center. There are three shooting modes—Auto Exposure, and ISO, and Shutter Priority—that you can select beside the shutter button. On the right side of it, a Library icon will be seen wherein the thumbnail of the last photo you took is shown with the previous shots spread behind it.
Within the photo app’s viewport, you will have access to three features that are located across the bottom. ‘Looks’ button is displayed on the left. The detailed RGB Histogram is placed in the center just right above the shutter button. While on the right corner beside it, the Lens Picker can be seen. In the top center of your screen, on the other hand, displays all the exposure values and the image file type. The FiLMiC Pro icon that could redirect you immediately to the app placed on the top-left side. Meanwhile, the basic settings you can modify here are on the top-right side of the screen.
There are tons of features that you can customize in the settings menu. You can change your JPEG-formatted image to either HEIC, TIFF, or DNG. A self-timer that contains 2, 5, 10, and 20-second timers, as well as ‘Off’ options, can be set. You also have the usual flash choices such as Off, Auto, and On. Like every great camera app, you can choose among the three grid views offered here. If your device contains an A12 chipset or above, you can access their HDR selector then. Apart from that, you can pick any aspect ratio from 4:3, 16:9, 3:2, 1:1, and 5:4 options.
A game-changer camera app
FiLMiC truly innovates the simple functionality of a camera application. With this, you can capture your best moments with professional-quality image output using the most intuitive photo app to ever exist. Fine-tune your camera setting as much as you like to come up with the image output you like to show off to others.
