Kino will let iPhone videographers capture video in the LOG format, with rich manual control and advanced imaging features that Halide Camera is famous for.
Kino aims to be for video capture what Halide is for RAW imaging, according to Ben Sandofsky, who is the developer behind Halide Camera app. Kino is in development and should come out sometime in early 2024, most likely in February.
Halide Camera, released in 2017, earned the respect of photography fans by putting RAW imaging and professional camera controls at their fingertips.
Kino will let you capture iPhone LOG video
With Kino, the team wants to bring a similar level of manual control and sophistication to capturing pro-level footage, especially as the iPhone 15 Pro models introduced the ability to capture ProRes LOG video to an external drive.
If Kino is anything like Halide, we can expect a gorgeous design with advanced manual camera control for shooting video in ProRes and other formats.
Without any doubt, iPhone videographers are going to dig Kino. It’s no secret that Apple has intentionally dumbed down the iPhone’s stock Camera app in order to appeal to average users who just want to hit the shutter button and start filming.
This has pushed folks serious about RAW video capture to pro apps like Filmic. When you think about it, the Halide team’s timing is impeccable; a recent report from Petapixel claims that the entire Filmic team is being laid off. With Filmic’s future hanging in the balance, the Halide team decided it was the right time to leverage all their Halide learnings to design a video capture app that the iPhone deserves.
Kino should arrive in February 2024. The sooner, the better, as Sandofsky revealed in an announcement video shared on YouTube that he’s expecting his first child. You can track Kino’s development progress at shotwithkino.com.
What is LOG video? How does it work?
According to Sandofsky, Kino will support LOG video capture on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. LOG is a compressed video format that captures the most dynamic range, delivering untouched data straight from the camera sensor.
LOG’s logarithmic curve allows for tremendous flexibility in color grading during post production, so most Hollywood movies are recorded in some LOG format.