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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a reminder: all of Halide's looks are available on any phone that runs Halide. Not just the iPhone 18 Pro.

A list of all looks available in Halide, alongside their icons: Apple, Process Zero, Valencia, Rembrandt, Nova, Zephyr, Chroma Noir, Scarlet, Quicksilver, and Dawn.

Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

QUICKSILVER's high contrast and muted color simulate a silver-retention alternative process. It's an excellent midpoint between color and stark black-and-white.

A street in the Nakano district of Tokyo

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We've also added two new looks in this update! DAWN is a new look that features filmic warmth in mid-tones and highlights, paired with rich yet gentle shadows and subtle complementary cool colors.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Halide supports the fully variable aperture on the iPhone 18 Pro. Rather than lock you to presets, pick any value from ƒ/1.48 to ƒ/4.0. We've added an Aperture Priority mode for easy shooting, but if you need the ISO control missing from the default iPhone camera app, manual mode has you covered!

A close-up of the new manual control readout.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Rich, saturated flowers might be the most difficult subject to capture with a digital camera. A smart phone struggles to reproduce the color as your eyes saw it. Compare the Apple camera to Halide’s “Rembrandt” process, which eschews realism for a more film-like look.

A highly saturated flower with more detail

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

While Mark III delivers amazing results straight out of camera, we know that photo development can be an important creative tool. We set out to build something better than an editor: an intuitive way to develop photos in seconds. We call it the Photo Lab!

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Chroma Noir is a look we developed in-house to flex our film simulation engine. It's a medium contrast, black and white look with a touch of extra grain.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Zephyr features subtle filmic contrast, paired with rich skin tones and foliage. It has the character of a traditional print, but its neutral tone scale and tuned contrast make it a great choice for a wide variety of scenes and visual intents.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Nova is exceptionally colorful, with tight contrast and smooth peachy highlights. Nova best suits landscapes and cityscapes rather than portraiture.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

For portraits, we have Rembrandt, where thick contrast in the mid-tones emphasizes bone structure and lighting. Abundant color in the low end converges to white as exposure increases, for perfect uniformity in skin-tones to emphasize contours of the face.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We developed Valencia for landscapes and cityscapes, but it also has interesting effects on portraiture and skin tones. It features thick contrast, deep saturation, and solid color separation.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

With Halide Mark III, we rebuilt our image processing engine to take full advantage of the iPhone camera sensor's native gamut and dynamic range. We partnered with a renowned Hollywood colorist to develop a set of amazing looks, each with a specific intent. Enough words, here's photos!

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Thought we’d write a quick review of the iPhone 17e, and the next thing you know we’re running experiments with an infrared camera.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

iOS 26 and iPhone 17 Pro are here. Here’s the latest on our updates - and a first tiny peek at Halide Mark III www.lux.camera/rewrites-and...

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Stay tuned for our iPhone camera reviews — there might be two this year.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

iPhone 17 Pro is going to be a camera beast. ProRes RAW, 48MP cameras all around, overhauled processing pipeline for digital zoom, vapor chamber cooling for extended shooting.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

iPhone Air gets a single, large 48MP camera. With a new, more AI-heavy 2× pipeline and discrete crop modes.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

iPhone 17s get a square, doubled-size front-facing camera sensor. Makes a lot of sense, and will get a ton of use by users with the Center Stage feature auto-framing the shot.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Good morning - taking a break from our hard work on Halide Mark III to comment on any new camera news. 👀 Who’s excited?

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

📣 Introducing Kino 1.3, a big update to Kino with powerful creator features: Audio Control — you can now toggle automatic or manual selection of any audio source; expanded external drive support; frame drop detection and more! Grab Kino 1.3, in the App Store now: shotwithkino.com/download

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

New on our blog: @sdw chronicles the design ages of iOS and visualizes what the next UI age might look and feel like. www.lux.camera/physicality-...

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

A year ago, we launched Kino — Halide’s video sidekick. We couldn’t have imagined the incredible rollercoaster of its first year: topping the App Store charts, a cameo in the iPhone 16 keynote, and winning the App Store Awards as iPhone App of the Year! Happy birthday, Kino 🥳

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Last chance to get a question in for us to answer in our lil’ iPhone 16e review.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

It’s iPhone 16e week, but let’s take a moment to honor the finest iPhone with a home button: the iPhone 7! Maybe the nicest iPhone ever? Dylan McDonald (@dylan.mcd8) shot this utterly gorgeous portrait of the 7 series lineup. We’ll always be very partial to the Jet Black — the best iPhone finish.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Cool observation by @gruber.foo: iPhone 16 wallpapers match their rear camera layout from 1 orb on iPhone 16e all the way to 3 for iPhone 16 Pro

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

iPhone 16e is here! Packing a “48Mp dual camera”. We’re going to investigate!

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Now that we're a bit later into the lifetime of iPhone 16, we're curious to hear how you use the Camera Control. Is it a part of your workflow? Love it or hate it?

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day, folks. Shoot your shot 💘

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Some of the 52-week creative challenges of the last 4 weeks! 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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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Do you like manual settings, Kino, and those two things combined? Great — hop into our Discord! We’ll be doing one of our first Early Access TestFlight invite rounds: discord.gg/FVFmSUbfuZ

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

RULE OF THIRDS is our 2nd theme to kick off our 52-week creative challenge! Tips: A thirds-layout grid is in Halide and Kino - and you can use that as a guide as you take a shot. But, don’t limit yourself to a precise grid if you feel like it: you can take shots of, say, 3 items too.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Here’s a cool new thing we’re doing: we now have a Discord community! Great for sharing shots, tips, and tracking your progress for our 2025 challenge. Join here! discord.gg/RDAUwQ96

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The Halide / Kino 52 week challenge begins today! Week 1’s theme is EARLY LIGHT 🌅 Share a shot here or in our discord to complete 52 weeks of shooting to improve your photography and build a creative habit in 2025 - along with a chance to win some cool Lux merch.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

All of us at Lux wish you a very happy new year — may it be filled with light worth capturing. ✨

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We’re working on our year in review… and a sneak preview of what’s coming up. 👀 What would you like us to work on next?

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

All the winners of the 2024 App Store Awards! We are so proud to be in such great company.

A group photo showing all the winners of the App Store Awards of this year. Th eHalide team is visible on the left.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Welcome, new Kino users and followers! If you want to get started with the app and learn more about making great videos, check out our video and written lessons — you can find them in the app settings, or right here: www.shotwithkino.com/iphone-video...

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Number one!! Kino is at the top of the App Store charts. 🎉

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

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. www.lux.camera/kino-is-ipho...

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Perfect pairing: you can set up our free app Orion to turn your iPad into an HDMI monitor for all sorts of stuff — like your camera*, Mac or game console. *camera can even be Kino or Halide! www.lux.camera/use-your-ipa...

isometric renders of an iPad connected to a camera, old Macintosh and Nintendo Switch

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Pro tip: you can swipe on the Kino record button to lock it, preventing you from accidentally ending a clip with an mis-tap!

Screenshot showing the Kino interface with a red locked record button.

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Many more Indies have joined #IndieSky — we love seeing all the community love! We’ll award some extra promo codes today to anyone sharing a photo, screenshot or video made with or about our apps :)

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Whoa — we are thrilled to see Kino is a finalist for iPhone App of the Year in this year’s #AppStoreAwards! Check out all the finalists here: www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Fun fact: we have set of fairly advanced depth tools in Halide, including the ability to export depth maps but also to project a photo’s depth in AR:

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Four frames from Paris, Texas (1984) by Wim Wenders. Truly spectacular color grading. Suggest a movie whose colors you loved in a reply - we’ll pick one to make a Kino grade preset inspired by its color grade!

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