Lumen Camera

Lumen Camera turns your iPhone into a serious cinematography and photography tool — with the polish of Apple Camera and the depth of a pro mirrorless.

Built natively for iOS 26, Lumen Camera is among the first apps to use Apple's new Cinematic Video Capture API, bringing rack focus, tracking focus, and adjustable depth-of-field — the same techniques used in feature films — into a camera you carry every day.

THREE WAYS TO SHOOT
Lumen Camera grows with you. Start in Auto and the camera handles everything. Switch to Semi-Manual to take control of one variable — adjust ISO and the shutter follows, or set the shutter and ISO follows — while focus, white balance, and the rest stay automatic. Or go fully Manual and command every parameter the sensor exposes.
• Auto — point and shoot
• Semi-Manual — pick the variable that matters, the camera balances the rest, with full EV compensation
• Manual — direct control of ISO, shutter, focus, white balance, and exposure compensation

MANUAL CONTROLS
• ISO, shutter speed, exposure compensation, white balance, focus
• Fine-grained sliders with numeric readouts
• AE/AF lock with one long press

RAW & MINIMAL PROCESSING
Choose how much of Apple's image pipeline you want.
• HEIC / JPEG — Apple Camera quality with Deep Fusion, Smart HDR, and Photographic Styles
• Lumen Enhanced — our take on a clean, neutral HEIC for everyday shooting
• Apple ProRAW — 12-bit DNG with Apple's computational pipeline preserved for editing latitude
• RAW DNG — 12 MP Bayer DNG with Apple's processing dialed back, so the file you open in Lightroom, Capture One, or Darktable is closer to what the sensor actually saw

FOCUS & EXPOSURE TOOLS
The same assists you'd find on a cinema camera, on glass.
• Focus peaking — colored highlights on the in-focus regions of the frame
• Focus loupe — pinpoint manual-focus magnifier with multiple zoom levels
• Live histograms — luminance and full RGB
• Zebra stripes — adjustable highlight-clipping threshold
• Tap to focus, drag to set exposure compensation, long-press to lock AE/AF

CINEMATIC VIDEO
• Tap a face, an object, or a point to rack focus like a film camera
• Adjustable simulated aperture (f/2.0–f/16) for shallow-depth bokeh
• Automatic subject tracking driven by on-device ML
• Records in ProRes or H.265, with cinematic-mode stabilization

PORTRAIT MODE
• Live preview of the background blur as you shoot
• Adjustable aperture before AND after capture
• Subject detection with depth-aware framing

PRO VIDEO
• 4K up to 60 fps, 1080p up to 240 fps
• ProRes 422 / 422 HQ / 422 LT
• Apple Log
• Codec, frame rate, stabilization, audio, and color all under your control
• Spatial Audio capture

LIQUID GLASS UI
• Designed for iOS 26's design language
• Controls that stay close without covering the shot
• Full Camera Control button support on iPhone 16 and later — slide to zoom, press to capture

PRIVATE GALLERY
• Face ID–locked, in-app photo storage
• Nothing leaves your device unless you choose to share

MULTILINGUAL
Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Hindi, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.

Lumen Pro unlocks all features via subscription. Cancel anytime in Settings.

Privacy: Lumen Camera does not track you. No analytics tied to your identity. No data leaves your device except what you explicitly choose to share.

REQUIREMENTS
Cinematic Video requires iPhone 13 or later. Apple Log and ProRes recording require iPhone 15 Pro or later. The Camera Control hardware button requires iPhone 16 or later. Some advanced video formats and frame rates depend on the specific iPhone model.

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Privacy Policy : https://www.lumenmatics.com/privacy-policy