A frame you can't check is the one you think about before you take it.

Lupo is a film camera and a darkroom. Twelve exposures to a roll, and hours to wait before you see them.

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Requires iOS 26

Lupo running on an iPhone held upright, the viewfinder showing a laneway between a brick wall and a glass tower, with a red shutter below.
Twelve exposures to a rollPhoto: @niko_nguyen_10 · Unsplash

Twelve exposures

No burst. No retakes. No deleting the bad one and trying again.

Lupo's camera screen on an iPhone held sideways, showing a street crossing in the viewfinder with aperture, exposure count and flash indicators.
f/5.6 · EXP 12Photo: @dokae · Unsplash

A film camera

Not a filter over a photograph

Every frame is exposed onto a modeled emulsion — the curve, the grain, and the way light scatters in the base — then developed and printed the way film is.

Lupo's film selection screen showing canisters for Tungstill ISO 800, Chromea ISO 400, Velvue ISO 100 and Oktichrom ISO 100.
Load film

Eight emulsions

Each behaves like the film it's modeled on

Warm and forgiving, or saturated and unforgiving. Black and white on a long tonal scale. Choose what the picture needs, before you take it.

Held like a camera

Turn the body and the picture turns with it

The interface never rotates to correct you. The controls stay where your hands left them, exactly as they would on film.

The darkroom

You don't see what you shot until it comes back

Shoot the roll, develop it, and wait. Lupo tells you when the frames are ready. The mystery is what makes it exciting — and the wait is the point.

Download on the App Store