Ancient Light
iOS Universel / Photo et vidéo
Ancient Light transforms your iPhone into a camera of the nineteenth century.
Eleven authentic historic photographic processes — each faithfully simulated through the physics of tone, silver chemistry, grain, and light. Not filters. Processes.
THE ELEVEN PROCESSES
Daguerreotype (1839) - The first successful photograph. A mirror-like silver surface with luminous shadow detail and a quality that painters of the era envied.
Tintype (1853) - The photograph of the working class. Robust, immediate, warm shadows and a distinctive metallic grain.
Sepia - The warm brown tone of silver sulphide that preserved Victorian portraits through a century and a half.
Cyanotype (1842) - Sir John Herschel's iron-based process. Deep Prussian blue. The print that gave photography the word "blueprint."
Anthotype (1839) - Made from crushed plant pigments. Delicate, fugitive, botanical. The most poetic photographic process ever devised.
Platinum (1873) - The process of fine art portraiture. Cool, shadow-rich, with a tonal range silver could never match.
Autochrome (1907) - The Lumière brothers' starch-grain colour process. Dreamy, pointillist, the first practical colour photography.
Wet Plate (1851) - The dominant process of the mid-19th century. Cracked emulsion, silver bubbles, edge melt, amber-olive toning.
Bromoil (1907) - Oil-based ink on bleached gelatin. Painterly and stippled, with inky shadows and pale milky highlights.
Lippmann (1891) - Gabriel Lippmann's Nobel Prize-winning interferential process. Warm amber ageing, long-exposure softness, and glass plate scratches from a century of handling.
Infrared (1930s) - Light beyond the visible spectrum. Luminous white foliage, darkened skies, ethereal skin tones. The spectral world captured on heat-sensitive emulsion.
WHAT ANCIENT LIGHT CAN DO
All four optical lenses - ultrawide (0.5×), wide (1×), 2×, and telephoto (5×) — selectable from the viewfinder with native-style buttons
Shoot once, save many - the Save button resets so you can save Daguerreotype, then Tintype, then Cyanotype from a single capture
On iPhone Pro: saves both a filtered JPEG and the original 48MP ProRAW DNG as a paired asset
Full adjustment suite - exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, black point, saturation, vibrance, warmth, sharpness, and vignette with real-time preview
Auto enhancement with one tap
Six period frame styles for Daguerreotype, selectable directly from the viewfinder
Precision crop tool with inset handles and rule-of-thirds grid — period effects wrap exactly what you cropped
Landscape side-panel layout keeps the image large while all controls stay accessible
Photographer credit field - your name travels with every saved file in the IPTC metadata
Process and frame stored between sessions
iPhone and iPad, all orientations
No subscription. No ads. No account required.
Ancient Light is a single purchase. Everything in it is yours.
Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
Added Infrared filter as the eleventh option.
