A camera built like a real body. Hold the part of the exposure triangle you care about — A, M, S or I — and Lucid floats the rest, live, as the light moves. A metering reticle you can split from focus. A viewfinder that never lies. And no fake aperture, ever.
No bokeh dial that touches neither depth nor exposure. Shutter, ISO and compensation are the honest manual triangle a phone can actually give you — so that's exactly, and only, what Lucid gives you.
Lock the parameters you care about; a live auto-exposure loop floats the rest as the light changes. iOS has no shutter or ISO priority — so Lucid built one, in software, that converges in a handful of frames.
The camera meters everything. You nudge the result with exposure compensation, ±3 EV in third-stops.
Shutter + ISO floatShutter and ISO both set by hand — two half-width dials, side by side. Total control. Nothing moves but you.
Nothing floatsPin your shutter to freeze a splash or blur a river. ISO floats live to hold the exposure for you.
ISO floatsFix your noise floor at a clean value. The shutter floats live to keep the frame correctly exposed.
Shutter floatsEvery value on the deck is live — and every value is a handle. Tap a stat to grab it, and one contextual tape below drives it, with a haptic detent at every full stop.
The machine-driven leg — floating ISO here, tinted in signal red — ticks read-only, so you always know which hand is on the wheel: yours, or the camera's.
A machined dial, a metering reticle, and a gate that shows the exact frame — the three surfaces you actually touch.
ISO 25–6400, shutter 1/8000 → 30″, Kelvin and tint, macro to infinity — one ruler with real momentum, spring-snap stops, and a haptic detent at every full stop.
Tap for a combined AE·AF reticle. Double-tap to split them — drag exposure onto the sky while focus holds your subject. Long-press to lock either one on its own.
A true WYSIWYG viewfinder, letterboxed like a film gate. Choose 4:3 · 3:2 · 16:9 · 5:4 · 1:1 and the frame crops live. Full-screen previews hide a third of the capture. Lucid won't.
Rendered live in the Metal preview pipeline, on multi-camera hardware. One tap in Quick Actions toggles any of them.
In manual focus, in-focus edges tint green in real time — nail focus by eye at any distance, no pinch-zoom guessing. A 2.5× loupe rides along automatically.
Diagonal stripes sweep across clipped highlights. Pick the 90 · 95 · 100 IRE threshold to match the shot and protect skies and speculars.
A live three-channel scope floats over the finder, measured off the raw frame. Watch the mass shift as you dial — and expose to the right on purpose.
Photo and video share one exposure engine. Switch to Video and A·M·S·I still applies — AutoMotion pins a cinematic 180° shutter and gently floats ISO so exposure glides, never steps.
Bring your own grade, then save the whole rig — priority, dials, white balance, format, lens — as a profile you recall with one tap.
Import any .cube LUT from Files. Grade the viewfinder live, dial the intensity, and bake it into JPEG or HEIF — or keep it preview-only and let RAW save perfectly clean.
Save a complete configuration as a named profile with its own colour. Recall your night rig or your street rig instantly — the first four live on the deck as quick slots.
From efficient HEIF to full 48-megapixel sensor readouts, five aspect ratios, and three-shot exposure brackets. RAW always saves the full frame.
Built on the iOS 26 SDK with the real system materials — glass chrome that refracts your scene, a priority pad that flows as you switch, and a locked-dark body that frames the image like a film gate.
Cameras aren't rented. Neither is Lucid.
