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Built by an experienced, internationally renowned cinematographer for demanding productions where a tool needs to be reliable.

Featuring a clear, uncluttered interface, sun path upcoming weather and a one time purchase price with no subscriptions or add ons required.

No more awkward gallery or lost scouts. Photos and video are saved directly to your photos.

COMPREHENSIVE
• Built-in offline catalogue of 100+ cinema and digital camera models, with recording modes and sensor gate sizes
• 300+ lens profiles, both prime sets and zooms, from makers such as ARRI, Angénieux, ZEISS, Panavision, Hawk, Leica, Laowa and more
• Search by maker, name, mount or focal length
• Anamorphic squeeze factors are applied to the frame
• Custom sensor formats, focal lengths and aspect ratios if your kit isn't listed
• Frame guides are calculated from the sensor size and focal length you choose and shown on your iPhone's camera image

FRAMELINES AND COMPOSITION
• Preset frame guides: 16:9, 1.85:1, 2.39:1, 1:1, 4:3 and 2.55:1
• Show several guides at once, with a primary guide, or switch them all off
• Add or edit your own delivery ratios
• Matte shading outside the recording gate and the delivery crop
• Clean view hides the controls with one tap on the image

FAST LENS CHANGES
• Swipe to step through focal lengths
• Press and hold to zoom smoothly through a zoom lens's range
• Your last camera, lens and framelines are remembered between sessions

SUN PATH
• Projected sun path with 2-hour markers, based on your location and true north
• Scrub through the day, or pick any date to plan a shoot
• Sunrise, sunset and golden-light status
• Sun positions are calculated astronomically. Terrain, buildings and weather are not modeled.
• Needs Location and Motion access, and a clear compass reading, to align the path with the camera. Framing works without them.
• Sample mode shows the sun path without location or camera access

WEATHER
• Weather panel with current conditions and hourly precipitation outlook, powered by Apple Weather
• Requests your location only when you open it

CAPTURE
• Tap the shutter to save an annotated still to Photos
• Hold for two seconds to record video with audio, then tap to stop
• Captured frames include a strip with camera, lens, focal length, framelines, GPS, compass heading and time
• The sun path can be included in saved stills
• Hardware capture buttons are supported
• Saved to Photos with add-only access

DESIGNED FOR THE FIELD
A dark, low-glare interface for landscape shooting, with accessibility labels on the controls. Your presets stay on your device.