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Film Buddy for Mac converts a whole roll at once. It’s in private beta.

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Workspace after converting the Golden Hour roll, showing a couple holding hands in tall grass.

Film Buddy for Mac

One roll, from the first edit to the exported files. Private beta, by invitation.

Edit

Workspace with the Saturation slider being dragged on a photograph of a couple in tall grass.
Edits
Workspace with the Highlights color wheel open under Grade.
HSL and Grade
A linear mask drawn across a photograph of a couple, with its tone and color controls.
Masks

Clean up

A close portrait in Workspace at 100 percent.
Heal
Crop and Straighten with the photograph rotated inside a 3:2 crop.
Crop
A portrait among cherry leaves inside a white print matte on a black canvas.
Print Matte
Export rendering and verifying a 16-bit TIFF export of 18 frames.

Export

8- or 16-bit TIFF, or JPEG. Every file is checked after it’s written.

Scanning

Media with the Capture frame button and the Golden Hour roll.
RGB captureTethered, the Mac steps your iPhone backlight through red, green and blue.
A medium format negative stitched from four captures, 9006 by 6199 pixels.
StitchSeveral captures become one large frame.

Photos in the app screens by @bonnieannphotography on Instagram

Film Buddy for iPhone

Meter and log a roll as you shoot, then time its development. Free.

Download on the App StoreiOS 18 or later

Long exposures

Set your ND filter and the shutter time follows. When your film needs reciprocity correction, an hourglass shows how many stops to add.

Film Buddy light meter with a held reading of f/5.6 at 1/500 for Portra 400, and the ND filter set to Off.
Meter
The Reciprocity sheet for Ilford HP5 Plus: a metered 8 seconds needs +1 stop, so expose for 16 seconds, or open up two thirds of a stop and keep 8 seconds.
Reciprocity
Three logged frames of a Portra 400 roll, each with aperture and shutter speed, one with a note.
Frames
Buddy Log showing a Portra 400 roll in a Nikon F3 and an HP5 Plus roll in an Olympus OM-1.
Buddy Log
The Cs41 powder kit recipe for C-41: develop 3:30, blix 8:00, wash 3:00, then dry.
Recipes
A develop timer at 3:16 for CineStill Cs41 at 39°C, with agitation instructions.
Develop
Backlight with white, red, green and blue, a brightness slider and a Show white button.
Backlight
Sun showing a low sun from the west-southwest and golden hour at 5:16 PM.
Sun

Works without an account. A free account syncs your Buddy Log and recipes.

On iPhone Duo

Film Buddy on an open iPhone Duo, with the meter on the left and the Portra 400 roll’s frame notes on the right.
Meter and notes
An open iPhone Duo showing a 12-frame Portra 400 roll as a contact sheet of exposure settings.
Contact sheet

Scanning Enclosure R2

A film-scanning enclosure for 35mm and 120 that you 3D print. The files are free for non-commercial use.

See the R2 print files

Scanning Enclosure R2 on a black desk, lit red from below by an iPhone in its phone tray, with spare parts behind it.The R2 from the front corner, lit green.The R2 from the other corner, lit blue.

Film Buddy for Mac is in private beta.

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