Kino - Pro Video Camera 4+

Grade Log Movies with LUTs

Lux Optics Incorporated

    • £9.99

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Description

Make great video easy! Kino lets you just press record and create cinematic video with color presets created by expert filmmakers—no edit required. Plus, with “AutoMotion,” the app automatically creates that smooth "film look" you see at the movies. Shoot great video with no film school required.

Are you an experienced filmmaker? Kino includes all the features you need to shoot like a Pro, such as a full manual mode, focus peaking, color waveform, audio meters, and more. If you’re experienced in color, you can import LUTs quickly and use the same powerful Instant Grade feature to output video with baked in LUTs.

Regardless of your skill level, Kino adapts to your needs. Pick your experience level when setting up the app to dial things in your way or go with recommended, simple settings. The beautiful, simple interface shows only essential things, while keeping powerful features under thumb’s reach.

INSTANT GRADE

Kino comes packed with pro color presets by experts like Stu Maschwitz, Sandwich Video, Evan Schneider, Tyler Stalman and Kevin Ong. With one tap, you can shoot video with cinematic, film-like color by selecting a Grade preset. With Instant Grade, you don’t have to apply it later or do any editing steps: Kino just saves the processed video for you, ready to share.

LEARN ALONG

Getting started with video? The Kino team has a free series of lessons prepared you can dive into right away to learn filmmaking with the app. Start out with our simple recommended settings and enroll in a lesson plan to get lessons emailed to you that are easy to follow and let you unlock every feature of the app to use for making better videos.

PRO TOOLS

Kino’s simple interface does not mean it lacks in powerful pro tools. Start out with automatic exposure with EV adjustment and AE and WB lock, or drop into full manual mode with shutter speed, angle and ISO adjustment. Compose a shot with the grid with built in level, check exposure with the RGB waveform, and pull focus with focus peaking. Kino can store your recordings in Files instead of Photos for better and easy shot management, and even features a screen lock to prevent inadvertent taps messing up your shot. Set custom recording settings (like 4K 60FPS Apple Log ProRes422HQ on iPhone 15 Pro) or get started with presets for flexibiltiy.

BEAUTIFUL INTERFACE

Thoughtful touches are abound in Kino: from a screen-wide telltale ring to show you are recording, to beautiful custom typography throughout with our own bespoke fonts, Kino balances beauty and simplicity with flexibility and control for users of any skill level.

AUTOMOTION

Get cinematic motion like in feature films. Introducing: AutoMotion. Kino biases exposure towards a 180° shutter speed by default. If you land in this sweet spot, and available light supports it, the ‘Auto’ label turns green — showing you are in the sweet spot for great cinematic motion. Bright day out? Pop an ND filter on your iPhone and don’t worry about adjusting manual settings: Kino will take care of prioritizing shutter angle so you can just shoot and get great results.

LUT FRIENDLY

One of the powerful aspects of Kino is being able to download new looks from your favorite creators or your own making. Author .cube LUT files in Pixelmator Pro, Davinci Resolve, or other apps (up to 33x33) and open them in Kino with a tap.

TRULY PRIVATE

None of our apps gather or collect data, or analyze your videos and photos. We believe the most important thing a camera can be is private.

CREATOR SPECIAL

Are you a creator or filmmaker and want to get started with or love using Kino? Get in touch with us to get our ‘Creator Kit’: see the Kino website for more details. When sharing your work, tag it #shotwithkino so we can feature it online.

Thanks for making it this far! Kino is made by friends — Ben Sandofsky and Sebastiaan de With, with the help of Katie-Rose Summerfield and Doug Broussard. We made this app with love and care and we hope you love it.

What’s New

Version 1.2.2

Welcome to Kino 1.2.2! While it doesn't contain any major new features, it does have lots of quality-of-life improvements.

* Manual exposure settings are easier to swipe and tap.
* Fixed a crash when switching lenses after fiddling with manual controls
* Exposure log button is easier to tap
* When reviewing high frame rate recordings, you can now preview it at different speeds
* When shooting 25 FPS, the viewfinder now displays at 25 FPS
* When using auto-motion, we improved our exposure ramping algorithm to avoid flicker

If you have any other issues, feel free to reach out at support@lux.camera.

- Team Kino

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
176 Ratings

176 Ratings

Editors’ Notes

With exclusive film-inspired filters and powerful manual controls, this simple video camera transforms everyday footage into a masterpiece.

ShropSi ,

Loving Kino - it’s reignited my interest in video

After a few days playing with Kino, I’m in love. Shooting 4K/60/LOG/HEVC and applying one of the included grades is like magic!!

Very much enjoying a renewed interest in shooting video again on my iPhone.

Another instant buy from the team at Lux!!

Developer Response ,

Thanks so much for the review - and we'll be working hard to make the app even better!

enkaytee ,

Slowly improving but too buggy for me

Update - the recent couple of updates haven't fixed the problem with setting shutter angle / speed and now using an external drive is no longer working - any media recorded to it doesn't show in Kino, although it's visible in the Files app. Support seems to be very hit and miss so I've decided to ask for a refund...if I see that these bugs are fixed I might give it another go but in the meantime I'll look elsewhere.

The recent update has fixed a couple of issues and added some useful features but the issue with trying to set angle / speed and ISO on an iPhone still remains. It's basically impossible to confidently select the buttons or move the ISO slider. For some reason these work fine on an iPad but not on any of the iPhones I've tested - 13, 16 pro and SE. Hopefully this will be fixed soon...

App Privacy

The developer, Lux Optics Incorporated, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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