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A green sea cliff and a boat on clear water, shot with costa verde
shot on costa verde
a camera app for iPhone

Make a camera
out of a few
photographs.

Show kopi cam a few photographs that share a look, or describe one in a sentence. A minute or two later it is a real camera, with the look live in the viewfinder and every photo developed on your phone.

▸ how one got made

Four
photographs in.

A wet Tokyo street at night
A wet street between buildings at night
An empty road surrounded by lit buildings
Cars on a road at night
and one line typed shot on expired film, pushed two stops
a minute or two later

It read the photographs, wrote a recipe, rendered a test frame and corrected itself against the references.

A camera out.

cyberpunk neon night

“Moody rain-slicked city night aesthetic with deep cyan-blue shadows, electric magenta undertones, and glowing neon highlights”

A lit swimming pool outside a house at night, shot with cyberpunk neon night
then this was shot with it

Four come loaded.

kopi cam made these too, names and descriptions included. Vintage, disposable, digicam, y2k, or a look nobody has made yet.

A western-wear shop lit by one warm tube, shot with amber sun '74
amber sun ’74

Sun-drenched 1970s amber warmth with saturated golden yellows, rich contrast, and organic film grain

A ginger cat sitting under a car, shot with disposable snap 400
disposable snap 400

Punchy direct-flash contrast with green-tinted emerald greens, rich amber skin tones, and gritty 35mm disposable grain

A green sea cliff and a boat on clear water, shot with costa verde
costa verde

Punchy Mediterranean-coast film look with emerald-cyan skies, deep saturated vermilions, and golden-green midtones

A cat at a window, shot with noir panchromatic
noir panchromatic

Moody, high-contrast monochrome with deep shadows, rich midtone separation, and fine 35mm film grain

Or just say it.

start from a sentence

  • a 2004 digicam with flash
  • expired 35mm film at golden hour
  • my grandma's photo album

Photos, words, or both.

then keep talking to it

  • warmer skin
  • less grain
  • make it black and white

The camera changes, not the photo. Everything you shoot next comes out the new way.

It’s a camera.

The look sits on the viewfinder, so what lands in your library is what you were looking at.

Every photo develops on the phone and saves to your own library, an album per camera. Only the developed photo is saved. There is no untouched copy underneath.

The kopi cam viewfinder, with the look already on it before the shutter
The look is on before you press anything.
kopi cam part-way through building a camera
Building one, pass by pass.
The dial, turning between saved cameras
Your cameras live on a dial.
▸ new in this version

Built for iPhone Duo.

kopi cam lays itself out for the big inner screen, and for the fold. Open it, or stand it up.

CONTROL RAIL VIEWFINDER FOLD
open

Held wide, the picture goes landscape and the controls move to a rail down the right side.

PICTURE CREASE CONTROLS
half folded

Stand it on a table like a camcorder: the picture on the top half, the controls on the bottom. Held like a book, the picture takes the left page. Nothing sits in the crease.

Share one.

Publish a camera behind a link and anyone with kopi cam can add it, with a one-time unlock or with premium. You choose which of your photos go on the page, and the creator name it carries. No feed, no follows, no comments.

Your photographs stay yours.

What you shoot never leaves your phone. It develops on the device and saves to your own library, an album per camera. Only the reference photos you pick are sent to be read, and they are not stored or used to train anything. The whole of it.

▸ 36   36A   end of roll

Four cameras come with it. The first one you make is free.

get kopi cam

kopi cam for iPhone. Premium lifts the limit and lets you talk to any camera.