Lenny Alvarez

Shooting film means carrying a light meter and four paper reference cards. Depth of field, Sunny 16, long exposures, darkroom timing. They get lost, wet, and left at home.

No tabs, no menus. Five modules on one horizontal swipe, so changing tool feels like changing a setting on a camera body. Your hands already know the movement.

In TestFlight beta, running on four different iPhone models in real hands. Around 120 film stocks loaded with their own exposure data.

Film stocks live in forums, dead blogs and memory. Discontinued ones are barely recorded at all. There was nowhere to just look one up.

Photographers remember a film by its box. So a script pulled the four main colours out of every packaging photo, and the whole catalogue can be filtered by colour.

Live and used. Every film has its own page, so searching one on Google actually finds it. That is 4,025 generated pages.

AI models get arithmetic wrong and say it with total confidence. Revising for an exam, a wrong number stated calmly is worse than no help at all.

The AI explains, it never calculates. When a number is needed it writes a small program, the app runs it in a sandbox, and only the real result is shown.

I use it for my own coursework. A 14 billion parameter model runs on the laptop itself, with no internet and no API key.

Apple Photos and Lightroom sort by date, place and camera. A scan has none of those, so every tool you already own is useless on a film archive.

Index the one thing a scan does have: the picture. Three models run on your laptop, one to describe, one to recognise faces, one to measure what looks alike.

Shipped as a Mac app to other photographers. It read my 9,970 scans and sorted 6,380 faces into 734 people without being told who anyone was.

A negative holds a picture nobody can see without a lab or a scanner. Prints cost money and time, so most rolls stay in a sleeve in a drawer.

The screen is only 800×480, which is tiny. So no expensive macro optics are needed. An ordinary camera module resolves 1.7 times more than the panel can show.

Designed fully, first body printed and the buttons cut in. Electronics next. Parts come to $175 to $245.