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Here’s 4 of the latest themes of our 52-week challenge! 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
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Here’s a cool new thing we’re doing: we now have a Discord community! Great for sharing shots, tips, and tracking your progress in our 2025 photography challenge.
Join here! discord.gg/RDAUwQ96
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iPhone App of the Year!
Kino is Apple’s iPhone App of the Year in this year’s App Store Awards. We are absolutely blown away — thank you to all who helped and supported us in making our cinematic video camera a reality. lux.camera/kino-is-iphone-ap…
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Announcing... #IndieSky!
Along with some other great indie app developers, we’re giving away promo codes to redeem for our apps until Thursday.
Check out all the details on our account:
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Whoa — Kino has been chosen as a finalist for iPhone App of the Year in this year’s #AppStoreAwards!
Thank you, @AppStore!
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Grades got an update in Kino 1.2 — from some fresh new graphics to an overhauled Grade presets menu! You can now reorganize all presets, including your imported LUTs.
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Kino 1.2 lets you shoot 120 FPS video and other high frame rates on iPhone — great for rapid action shots! And, well, hummingbirds.
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Fun fact: Kino’s updates are alphabetically named after cinematic masterpieces. 1.2 is “Casablanca”.
Here’s our 1.2 update art, by @Jelmar:
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There’s plenty more to unpack — from being able to rearrange and organize grades to lots of UI and feature improvements across the board. We’ve got a lot more in the works, too.
We can’t wait to see what you shoot with it. shotwithkino.com/download
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Grades at a swipe? Manual focus you can swipe through? Yep. Camera Control Adjustments just landed, and there’s more coming in the future. Just like Halide, Kino also features a ‘Lock’ Adjustment to prevent inadvertently changing any settings.
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with high FPS capture, you can get incredible footage — we now support this even up to 4K 120FPS in Apple Log. Some settings do require external storage.
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We think you’ll reel-y like the new icon! Kino gets a friendlier, iconic face with iOS 18 tinting support.
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Our big Kino update is here! Meet Kino 1.2 — “Casablanca”.
A beautiful new icon. High frame rate capture (up to 4K 120FPS!). Camera Control Adjustments on iPhone 16 for total control. Organize and arrange Grade presets. Now in 10 new languages! And much more.
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Hallo! Bonjour! こんにちは!
Do you use Kino and speak Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Italian, German, French, Russian or Dutch?
We’d love to have you test something we’re working on. Send us a DM on here :)
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We’re gathering some of the best clips, workflows and stories of using Kino.
Share your results and stories with us for a chance to win some new, secret merch 🤫
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From all your friends at Lux, we wish you a happy Halloween! We can’t wait to see your spooky shots.
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Go on over to @stalman's Youtube channel to check out his 25 (!) minute iPhone camera review, featuring some great editing tips and gorgeous graded Log footage.
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This is a fun shot to recreate with Kino: set your lens to 0.5×, set focus to manual, and pan as steadily as you can.
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You can see this product video was shot on iPhone — what other kind of camera would’ve been able to fit through the Mac mini’s Thunderbolt port like that?
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Kind of wild that it’s not even news anymore how this Apple video was shot on iPhone. Some truly beautiful color grading on display here.
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Very cool scoop from @petapixel — Apple is brining Spatial photos and videos to the web. petapixel.com/2024/10/25/app…
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OK, now that we’re a month in, how do you feel about Capture Control? What do you use it for?
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Finally, simply tap ‘Apply’ to apply the Grade; once exported you can save the new video to Photos or share it right away with compatible apps.
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Once you found your clip, it opens in Kino like any other.
Kino will auto-magically select the right Grade presets for Log clips or regular ones, along with your imported LUTs. Just select one, and preview it to see the applied look. Nice!
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First off, find your clip. Depending on your settings, Kino will show you all your videos if you tap into the reviewer or just the ones you shot to Files.
If it’s the latter, tap ‘Libraries’ and navigate over to Photos to see all the videos in your Photos library.
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Pro Tip: you can grade any video in Kino, even if you didn’t shoot it there. Got an Action Mode clip you shot in Log in Apple Camera? Grade it in Kino!
Here’s how:
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No brakes on the train: Some news for our most demanding users shooting in rapid succession.
A big Halide performance update and bug fix release has been submitted to the App Store, addressing some isolated issues with capturing lots of images rapidly. Stay tuned!
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Finally, tap into Halide’s manual focus to pin the camera’s focus close to the subject for some beautiful natural bokeh and depth.
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Two: use the drama of ultra-wide focal length: Try shooting similar or the same objects close and far in the same frame to emphasize perspective.
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First: shooting lower gets you a dramatic perspective thanks to the wide field of view. If you want a fresh perspective, drop way down.
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Getting great shots with the iPhone’s ultra wide camera can be challenging — so here’s some tips from our @sdw on getting a unique shot with iPhone’s trickiest lens:
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Delighted by this wonderful @NewYorker article today: “How I Fell Back in Love with iPhone Photography” newyorker.com/culture/infini…
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A new iPad mini is out today — which is by far our favorite tiny device for using with our Orion app! Excited to see how it holds up as a wee external monitor.
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Love this video where @stalman shows off what’s on his iPhone 16 — including settings for photography and filmmaking piped.video/watch?v=4TpfJuZ7…
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Listen to us debate what a photo is, the dubious future of photography and much more with the fine folks at @verge on today’s episode of the Vergecast — wherever you get your podcasts.
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Anyone got a favorite design between these two Process Zero shirts? We’ll send a shirt of choice to a random reply.
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Is Process Zero the same as shooting in RAW? Why are shots coming out too bright or dark?
We have answers to just about all the Process Zero questions — in our Process Zero Manual: lux.camera/process-zero-manu…
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Halide 2.17 is here — bringing you more powerful Adjustments with Camera Control on iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro.
Halide defaults to our new ‘Locked’ Adjustment — preventing any accidental input. Tap into EV or Focus to adjust exposure, or focus manually with the Camera Control.
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Nice — @iFixit brings us X-rays and closeups of the new iPhone 16 Pro cameras. Can you guess which sensor is the smallest?
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That’s the basics! Try shooting a video in Log and editing it or throw a grade on to see just how powerful it can be.
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So, the main drawbacks of ProRes Log are file size and requiring a color grade to look great.
While you can shoot Log in Apple Camera, Kino lets you shoot with an Instant Grade, as well as shoot in HEVC for a more manageable file size — to get the benefits right away.
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