Filmic Firstlight - Photo App

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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
Modern photos with analog vibe
Updated on
Jan 31, 2024
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Ratings and reviews

1.26K reviews
Frank Langford
November 29, 2020
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.
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Mosaic Srl
November 30, 2020
Hi Frank, thanks for your comments, about wide angle or macro, if the manufacturer has locked other lenses for 3rd party apps, we cannot use them 😌. We will research your problems with level, gps an orientation. Thank you for your comments and have a nice day!
Natalie Wright
May 27, 2023
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.
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Mosaic Srl
October 4, 2022
Hello Natalie! Could you please give us more details about the issue via www.filmicpro.com/support#contac ? Our support team will be happy to guide you to the solution! Thank you and have a nice day!
David Reeves
May 23, 2020
The only decent stock camera app alternative for me. Love the ability to save only as a dng without a jpeg copy. And the intuitiveness of changing focus and exposure with guides is one of the best things about the app. However there are a few bugs here and there, in my case the in app gallery ui was only showing for a split second. As well as this the file format changes back to jpeg whenever changing which camera is used, not a huge issue but can be prone to forgetting and is a small hassle.
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Mosaic Srl
May 25, 2020
Hi David. We are having gallery problems with a small set of devices, we are working on it. Thank you for your review and have a nice day!

What’s new

* Several bugs fixed.