CAM135
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Film camera app · iPhone & Android

Make your photos look like film.

Shoot through Portra 400, Tri-X, or a camcorder from 1998. The grain, the light leaks, the date stamp in the corner — on the phone already in your pocket.

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Free to start. $19.99 once for everything. No subscription.

Kodak Gold 200
A hiker in sunglasses grinning back over his shoulder on a ridge, a lake and a range of peaks behind him, warm and grainy, shown filling an iPhone screen
35 MMCAM135
made it up before the clouds
11Film filters
23Vintage cameras
11Film frames
$19.99Once, not monthly

0111 film filters

Same photo. Different film.

Tap a film. The color, the contrast and the grain change — same photo, six of the eleven films.

Portra 400
The same portrait printed on Portra 400
'98 08 14
400 · COLOR NEGATIVE · FINE GRAINCAM135
See all 11 film filters

PORTRA 400 · CINESTILL 800T · TRI-X 400 ARE FREE · ALL 11 WITH CAM135

02Pro camera

Shoot it manual. Or just press the button.

ISO, shutter, white balance, EV and focus — there when you want them, out of the way when you don't.

Pro modeLEICA M6 · 26MM · 3:2
CAM135's pro camera screen: a live viewfinder over manual ISO, shutter, white balance, EV and focus controls, with an ISO scale from 64 to 3200 and the Leica M6 selected
ISO 64 · 1/125 · 5600KCAM135

The lookFour frames

A family walking barefoot along the shoreline, warm and grainy with a date stamp in the corner
Four friends laughing under a neon marquee on a night out, warm and grainy with a date stamp
Two friends laughing close to the camera on a windy day, date stamp in the corner
A road curving along a still fjord under heavy cloud, on a slide-film border

FULL MANUAL CONTROL · OR LEAVE IT ON AUTO AND SHOOT

0323 vintage cameras

23 cameras. One phone.

A Holga darkens the corners. A pinhole goes soft. Super 8 jumps. Every camera brings its own lens, its own gate, its own leaks.

23 camerasLOADED · ONE PHONE

Pick the camera before you shoot, not the filter after. A Leica M6 renders clean and sharp. A Holga 120N vignettes hard and leaks light. A pinhole gives up focus altogether.

FREE: LOMO LC-A · HOLGA 120N · ROLLEIFLEX 2.8F

Stills16 cameras

Lomo LC-A — Plastic wideLC-ALomo LC-A
Holga 120N — Medium-format toyHOLGAHolga 120N
Rolleiflex 2.8F — Twin lensROLLEIRolleiflex 2.8F
Polaroid SX-70 — Integral instantSX70Polaroid SX-70
Canonet QL17 — Rangefinder compactQL17Canonet QL17
Leica M6 — Rangefinder classicM6Leica M6
Canon AE-1 — Manual reflexAE-1Canon AE-1
Nikon F3 — Press reflexF3Nikon F3
Nikon FM3A — Mechanical reflexFM3ANikon FM3A
Olympus OM-1 — Compact reflexOM-1Olympus OM-1
Hasselblad 503CW — Medium format503CWHasselblad 503CW
Pentax 67 — Big negativeP67Pentax 67
Olympus Pen EE — Half framePEN-EEOlympus Pen EE
Fuji QuickSnap — Single useQSNAPFuji QuickSnap
Kodak Brownie — Bakelite boxBROWNIEKodak Brownie
Pinhole 6×6 — LenslessPINHOLEPinhole 6×6

Video7 camcorders

Canon 514XL — Super 8514XLCanon 514XL
Bolex H16 — 16mm turretH16Bolex H16
JVC GR-C1 — VHS-C shoulderGR-C1JVC GR-C1
Sony Handycam TR55 — Video 8TR55Sony Handycam TR55
Sony Hi8 — Metal tapeHI8Sony Hi8
Sony DCR-PC100 — Mini DVPC100Sony DCR-PC100
Fisher-Price PXL-2000 — Lo-fi monoPXL2KFisher-Price PXL-2000

04It shoots video too

Press record. It comes out as VHS.

Super 8, Hi8, VHS-C, Mini DV — seven camcorders, with the tape wobble and the timestamp burned into the corner.

JVC GR-C1VHS-C · AM 10:27
Sony Hi8VIDEO 8 · PM 7:36

RECORDS IN CAMERA · TIMESTAMP BURNED IN · NO WATERMARK

05The disposable camera look

The disposable camera, without the disposable camera.

Hard flash, heavy grain, a date stamp in the corner. The Fuji QuickSnap and the Holga are in the list for exactly this.

Fuji QuickSnap
Two friends laughing in a candid photograph with the hard flash of a disposable camera'98 08 14
35 MMCAM135
the last frame of the roll

You get the look you were buying the camera for — and you get all 36 frames back, because you can shoot it again if someone blinked.

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06Film frames · date stamps · captions

Finish it like a print.

Put it on an instant print. Stamp the date in the corner. Sign the chin in your own handwriting.

An SX-70 instant print of a family walking toward the sea, resting on linenthe day we went back

Eleven frames

  • SX-70 instant
  • Polaroid 600
  • Wide instant
  • Mini print
  • Square print
  • Type 669 peel
  • 35mm card mount
  • Glass mount
  • Deckle edge
  • Contact card
  • Black board
See all 11 film frames

07AI photo editor

Fix the photo. Keep the film.

Take a stray arm out of the frame. Sharpen a soft scan. Pull back a flash that blew out. Then put the film back over it.

1998 Flash

1998 Flash before the edit
Before
1998 Flash after the edit
After

1978 Slide

1978 Slide before the edit
Before
1978 Slide after the edit
After

08Film vs digital

Why film still looks better.

Film grain has a texture digital noise doesn't, and film highlights stop instead of clipping. That's the difference CAM135 is built to reproduce.

Tri-X 400
An older man in a flat cap standing in a doorway, in high-contrast black and white with sharp film grain
35 MMCAM135

You don’t have to choose. Keep the camera that’s always with you, and get the grain, the halation and the light leaks that made you want a film camera in the first place.

Grain
Clusters of silver, heavier in the shadows. Digital noise is the same everywhere.
Halation
Bright light scatters inside the film and glows red around its edges.
Highlight rolloff
Film slides into white. Digital hits a ceiling and clips flat.
Leaks & dust
The defects are the signature — a warm band from one edge, specks with halos.
Read film vs digital

09No subscription

$19.99. Once.

Every film filter, every camera, every frame — yours, forever. Most apps in this category charge that much every month.

All 11 films · all 23 cameras

$19.99 once

  • +No watermark on your photos
  • +No ads, ever
  • +No subscription for the films or cameras
  • +Free tier first — 3 films, 3 cameras, no card
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A MONTHLY PLAN EXISTS FOR CLOUD BACKUP ONLY · THE FILMS DON'T NEED IT