A Photographer Couldn’t Discover the Analog Companion App He Wished, so He Constructed It

French photographer Imad Djebarni simply developed a brand new iPhone app designed for movie photographers. Pellica’s main function is to trace which movies photographers use, which isn’t an entirely new idea for an app. However, Pellica goals to do way more than observe movie.

Beyond its core movie monitoring performance, Pellica additionally features a built-in gentle meter, scan importing, gear monitoring, residence improvement calculators, and a device to search out close by movie improvement labs.

“I’m a solo developer in Paris who shoots film,” Djebarni tells PetaPixel. “I got tired of using five different apps to do what one should — so I built Pellica. Roll tracker, light meter with reciprocity for 48 stocks, 500+ development labs mapped, development timer. Free to start, no account required.”

Pellica is competing in a reasonably crowded area. A number of months in the past, photographer Zachary Hou launched FilmMeter, an analog workflow app that tracks movie with a taking pictures log, has a lightweight meter, and may even assist photographers dial in guide focus. Frames, launched final 12 months, is a digital pocket book app for analog photographers, although it doesn’t provide in-app metering. Crown + Flint from 2023 additionally tracks movie, syncs scans, and has a lightweight meter.

Pellica goals to face out by its movie lab mapping and residential improvement calculators, serving to analog photographers all through the taking pictures course of, from begin to end. The improvement timer operate is especially attention-grabbing. It has customized recipes with temperature, dilution, and 5 agitation patterns. It has built-in cheatsheets for C-41, E-6, B&W, and ECN-2 processes.

Once the movie is developed, whether or not that’s with assistance from the in-app calculators or Pellica’s map of movie improvement corporations worldwide, the scans will be matched to logged exposures. Scans are mechanically matched by body order however will be dragged and dropped to reorder. Users may inject EXIF information utilizing their logged publicity information and bulk export their digital information.

Pellica additionally contains stock administration instruments for each digital camera gear and movie. Photographers can observe portions, prices, storage areas, and expiration dates for all their movie and even arrange alerts for when movie is nearing expiration. As for digital camera and lens catalogs, photographers can observe their situation, serial numbers, buy costs, and the whole worth of their gear assortment within the app.

Pellica additionally contains calculators for depth of discipline, hyperfocal distance, and flash information quantity. The app has residence and lock display widgets, achievements to unlock, and it really works offline.

Pellica is free to download, although the free model caps customers at three lively rolls of movie and presents lowered performance. The skilled model, which is $2.99 monthly, $24.99 yearly, or $59.99 for a lifetime license, provides limitless rolls, all improvement processes, customized recipes, PDF export, EXIF injection, and all app options.

Image credit: Pellica