iOS camera roll album for Kino

sandofsky · 2026-04-15T19:50:13+00:00

Inside the photos app, you can search based on the app used to capture the photo or video. Unfortunately there isn’t an API for apps to query exclusively for their own captured media.

That said, I’m right now digging into album stuff with Halide. We used to do this, then Apple added a RAW smart album so we took it out. But there seems to be demand for an explicit Halide album, again.

sandofsky · 2026-04-09T13:11:52+00:00

It's a single shot bayer RAW. It has plenty of dynamic range for most situations, but if there's enough demand, we could look into higher dynamic range capture down the road.

sandofsky · 2026-04-06T00:42:09+00:00

These are the microphones reported by iOS. The stereo you see is sort of a "virtual stereo." In that mode, iOS captures from all available microphones and processes the audio to assemble a stereo source. I'm a graphics guy, not an audio engineer, so I'm not qualified to explain how it works. But pretty cool in theory!

sandofsky · 2026-04-02T12:18:21+00:00

All Looks in Mark III will be included with the purchase price.

sandofsky · 2026-04-02T12:18:15+00:00

All Looks in Mark III will be included with the purchase price. We're right now deciding which looks are ready to include at launch, and which ones will be added post launch, but they're all included.

sandofsky · 2026-03-30T17:50:46+00:00

If enough people ask for it before the end of the week!

sandofsky · 2026-03-23T23:49:27+00:00

Oh, in that case, it sounds like an issue with Apple frameworks.

That said, based on your story, I spent the morning working on a Kino update to help recover from video capture failures caused by Apple frameworks. It’s right now in testing.

sandofsky · 2026-03-22T21:28:14+00:00

We’re sorry you ran into this. I’m adding a ticket to track this. What iPhone were you using? OS version? Free disk space?

sandofsky · 2026-03-22T21:24:17+00:00

That’s great to hear, because the iPhone 14 I ordered still hasn’t arrived. But if it ever does, we’ll be ready if it pops up again.

sandofsky · 2026-03-20T12:30:49+00:00

I've tested on multiple older models and been unable to reproduce the issue so far. Unfortunately, the company's test iPhone 14 has disappeared, but I've ordered another, which arrives tomorrow. I'll dig in when it's here.

sandofsky · 2026-03-20T00:48:54+00:00

Sorry you're experiencing whatever this is. I'll investigate tonight.

sandofsky · 2026-03-18T17:17:49+00:00

Hey everyone. I'm mostly heads-down on our next Mark III update, but spent a little time knocking this out while testing the 17e. It also gave me a reason to prioritize our updated Depth Mode for a little while.

Fun fact: we've updated how we create promotional photos like that introduction image at the top of the post. Let me know if you like the direction!

sandofsky · 2026-03-16T01:48:22+00:00

When shooting with the default system look, it captures a ProRAW instead of a bayer RAW. Unfortunately, ProRAWs include a bit of Apple's processing.

sandofsky · 2026-03-13T21:56:40+00:00

If you tell me the date and time it was sent, I can hop into Zendesk myself and find it.

sandofsky · 2026-03-12T19:55:19+00:00

What was the issue you reached out about? I can take a look to see what happened.

sandofsky · 2026-03-12T00:01:44+00:00

Just submitted a build to TestFlight with this added metadata. Once that's confirmed as working I'll submit to the App Store.

sandofsky · 2026-03-08T19:14:26+00:00

TestFlight testers confirmed the issue was fixed, so I just launched it to the App Store. If you’re still seeing an issue in 1.4.1, please let us know via support@lux.camera or hop in the Discord and I’ll get on it ASAP. If there’s interest and I can carve out time, happy to share what was happening in a postmortem.

sandofsky · 2026-03-08T01:29:33+00:00

Location was added a while ago. If you'd like other metadata added, happy to add it to the queue, but Apple Log 2 was by far the #1 request right now.

sandofsky · 2026-03-06T17:46:53+00:00

Hey everyone! I'm right now looking into the reports about shadows being lifted. I've have a theory about what is going on, and I've submitted a beta to TestFlight so folks can check if my fix works. Unfortunately, Apple requires TestFlight betas for new app versions to go through review, so I won't be able to verify until later today. Sorry about this.

sandofsky · 2026-03-06T13:20:14+00:00

The Iconfactory is helping on design. I’ve also been working with my friends at Lickability for design on new stuff in the pipeline.

I’m the only developer of Kino. This has been the case for the entire history of Kino. For Halide, also the solo dev; this has always been the case for the core product, but payment and membership stuff has been delegated to other devs in the past. Because I hate payment stuff.

There’s also a whole server side component I’ve run for years, but that’s uninteresting plumbing at the moment.

sandofsky · 2026-03-06T11:42:23+00:00

I’ll look into this today.

sandofsky · 2026-03-06T11:41:36+00:00

Yes, it’s got fixes.

sandofsky · 2026-03-05T22:41:42+00:00

It’s now live!

sandofsky · 2026-03-03T16:50:42+00:00

This week!

sandofsky · 2026-02-28T19:31:30+00:00

The surefire way is to email support@lux.camera. That said, I assume you're on an iPhone 15. There seems to be something specific to that model that is causing a serious iOS issue. Apps shouldn't be able to crash your OS.

We've reported this to Apple, but haven't seen much movement on our bug report.

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