The Moment by Latent Studios

The Moment is a film camera, an album and a darkroom for iPhone and iPad.

Load a film and see it in the viewfinder before you press the shutter. Every frame is a RAW original. Develop it through a film, a paper and the light, finish it as a real print, and write on its back. Every day gathers into a roll, and the album becomes a life you return to.

THE CAMERA

Your film is in the viewfinder as you frame; swipe across the glass between your films. RAW at 12 MP, or the full 48 MP on iPhones that have it. Shoot Still, Half Frame or Double Exposure, and load a roll of 24 or 36 that waits in the camera until you rewind. Open it from the Lock Screen, Control Center or Camera Control.

Latent (experimental) gathers up to four RAW frames into one negative that holds the lamps, windows and sky a single frame would lose.

THE DARKROOM

Film, Paper, Light and Finish. 83 films and 21 papers: develop the negative, print it under the enlarger or scan it on a Noritsu or Frontier, then shape exposure, tone and colour. Crop on the Easel, compare with First Light, and save a look you love.

A PRINT WITH A BODY

Finish makes the photograph a real print: dust, light leaks and the date on the film; the sheet, its folds and crumples; wear. Borders, rounded corners and a deckle edge; slide mounts, instant frames, cabinet cards and film gates around your whole photograph. Life ages a print as a wallet, a shoebox, an album or a sunny wall would.

WORDS ON THE BACK

Turn any print over and write on its back. Your words come back on this day, a year ago, in the Words room, and in a letter your library writes you each December.

MOTION, ON FILM AND ON TAPE

A take is a short moving photograph made through your film, with the sound of the room. Develop it like a photograph, then put takes in order in the Motion Room, cut them on a line, and print them as one movie.

Or flip to Tape and pick up the camcorder: Video8, VHS-C and Hi8, at sixty fields a second. Each cassette plays on its own deck, with fades, titles and dubbing, and prints one take or the whole tape.

KEEP A PHOTOGRAPHIC LIFE

Rolls by day, months as chapters, years as markers. Name them and write in them, find them on the map, gather Books, and show a Slide Night. The Archive keeps rolls, films, movies, cassettes, books and words. Save as JPEG, TIFF or HDR, and keep the RAW and the back of the print beside it.

THE FIELD

The Field is where photographs meet people. Place prints there, each in its true shape, with the film it was developed through. Walk This week, the homes you follow, the films and the places, and answer the Wall's weekly call with one photograph and words on its back. Every photographer has a home, and notes read as letters.

New in the Field, the Window: hang today's photographs for a week, and look into the windows of the homes you follow.

Invite a few people into a private Circle, a small table of friends, and send them a sealed Envelope. One Latent account, with Apple or Google, opens the same home in The Moment and in The Ritual.

EVERYTHING, FROM THE FIRST DAY

Every film, paper, finish and room works for everyone. What you save carries a Latent watermark until you have a plan; five films are always free and clean. A plan removes it from everything you save: Monthly, Yearly, or Yours to keep, one purchase for every 1.x update.

Your library lives on your device. It goes to the Field or a Circle only when you place it there.

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