Filmic Firstlight - Photo App

Filmic Inc.

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About this app

Filmic First­light is a rev­o­lu­tion­ary pho­to cam­era from the mak­ers of the class lead­ing Filmic Pro cine­ma video cam­era that makes live pho­tog­ra­phy fun and cre­ative.

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Re­dis­cov­er the joy of cap­tur­ing life’s mo­ments in pho­tographs you will im­me­di­ate­ly trea­sure and want to share.

First­light com­bines cus­tom film sim­u­la­tions, adap­tive film grain and Filmic Pro’s fa­mous live an­a­lyt­ics to of­fer an ad­vanced but ap­proach­able front end cam­era ex­pe­ri­ence like no oth­er.

Fast, easy and in­tu­itive, First­light lets you en­vi­sion and cap­ture your best mo­ments in cam­era, with­out hav­ing to spend hours edit­ing your pho­tos lat­er. Shoot and share, it’s that easy.

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AD­VANCED IM­AGE CON­TROLS

- Fast, in­tu­itive fo­cus and ex­po­sure con­trols: Tap the screen to set fo­cus/ex­po­sure, tap again to lock
- AE Mode: In­clud­ed is our pro­pri­etary Auto Ex­po­sure mode for set­ting shut­ter/iso com­bi­na­tion
- Cross-swipe man­u­al con­trols: The most in­tu­itive way to man­u­al­ly ad­just fo­cus and ex­po­sure. Swipe across the im­age to dial in your per­fect shot. Swipe up and down to ad­just ex­po­sure. Swipe left and right to ad­just fo­cus.
- Re­ac­tive an­a­lyt­ics: A foun­da­tion fea­ture of Filmic Pro and now in a pho­to app. Man­u­al­ly ad­just­ing your fo­cus and ex­po­sure will au­to­mat­i­cal­ly ap­ply fo­cus peak­ing or ze­bra stripes to make sure you get your shot just right.
- RGB His­togram: Dy­nam­i­cal­ly shows the ex­po­sure pro­file of the im­age across all col­or chan­nels.

GET THE LOOK YOU WANT

- Vin­tage film sim­u­la­tions: The magic of First­light is in our re­al­is­tic trib­utes to au­then­tic film stocks. A range of film sim­u­la­tions are in­clud­ed for free with the app.
- Film grain: Ap­ply nat­ur­al look­ing film grain ef­fects to give your pho­tos that ‘film look’. Medi­um grain is in­clud­ed as a free op­tion.
- Vi­gnette: Ap­ply a sub­tle dark vi­gnette to your im­age. Medi­um vi­gnette is in­clud­ed as a free op­tion.
- Lens se­lec­tor: Quick­ly switch be­tween all avail­able lens­es on your de­vice. (Note: camera/lens support is device specific).

PRO­FES­SION­AL CAM­ERA TOOLS

- Burst mode
- Timer
- Flash
- Grid over­lays
- As­pect ra­tios: 4:3, 16:9, 3:2, 1:1, 5:4
- JPG or HEIC Se­lec­tion
- HDR con­trol (on supported devices only)
- Vol­ume but­ton shut­ter and sup­port for most blue­tooth cam­era shut­ter re­motes
- Filmic Pro quick launch but­ton (for own­ers of Filmic Pro)

FIRST­LIGHT PRE­MI­UM (with in-app purchase)

Up­grade to un­lock the full po­ten­tial of First­light with the fol­low­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ties:
- Shut­ter and ISO pri­or­i­ty modes: In ad­di­tion to AE you can set spe­cif­ic Shut­ter Speed or ISO val­ues to ad­here to and let the app au­to­mat­i­cal­ly ad­just ex­po­sure for the un­locked val­ue.
- Ex­pand­ed film sim­u­la­tion op­tions: More re­al­is­tic film sim­u­la­tions and more to be added in the fu­ture for paid sub­scribers.
- Film grain: Fine, coarse and ISO adap­tive op­tions in ad­di­tion to medi­um
- Ad­justable vi­gnette: Low and heavy op­tions in ad­di­tion to medi­um.
- Con­fig­urable burst mode
- Anamor­phic adapter sup­port
- RAW: DNG and TIFF for­mats
- Cus­tom Func­tion but­ton
- Cus­tom live an­a­lyt­ics
- Con­fig­urable Fo­cus and Ex­po­sure con­trols
- Embedded copyright

Ratings and reviews

Installed on a OnePlus 8T. With Android 11. Level not working. Cannot select wide angle or macro. This is the paid for version. Horizontal shots are saved as vertical. This is intermittent though. This could be a problem with Google Photos. Apart from that it's very good. I do like the ability to save in various format's. The level option has just started working, most odd . Retract that level now not working again . One more thing. GPS location not working either . Mr Frank Langford.

Good app, manual controls, but there is a bug using the telephoto camera on the pixel 6 pro. You frame a shot, but the resulting capture is not what you framed, it jumps up the image by about 20% Needs fixing. Update may 2023 Just checked the app, now there is no option to use the telephoto camera. The "fix" was to remove it as an option? When, if ever, is this to be fixed? It has been reported for months.

[Edited] Pros: A must have if you want to shoot stills using anamorphic lens(moment/moondog); Analogue filters are nice to have - chrome in particular is good; Dev seems nice. Cons: lack of manual control; changing exposure and changing focus are not separated in the UI; no separate AE and AF lock. Hopefully in the future these functions can be provided to premium users.

What's new

Support for Android 14.