Collodion
Shoot like it's 1851. A wet-plate camera for iPhone.
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Details
- External ID
- 1268949
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Collodion
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7646442052285755
- Tags
- iOS, Photography
- Fetched at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Collodion is a camera, not a filter. It reproduces how an 1851 wet-plate emulsion saw light: blue-sensitive, blind to red. Lips go dark, skin goes porcelain, skies burn white. The look is live in the viewfinder; tap the shutter and watch the plate develop. Three plates (Tintype, Silver, Ambrotype), grain and softness dials, import any photo. Core Image on-device. $2.99 once, no subscription, no account, no tracking.
Enrichment
- Niche
- iOS photo and mobile utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- wet-plate photo filter app for iphone users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While an iOS camera wrapper is straightforward, accurately emulating wet-plate collodion spectral sensitivity, chemical emulsion dynamics, and live GPU shader rendering requires specialized digital image processing knowledge.
What it would actually take: The app needs a custom pipeline built on AVFoundation and Metal shaders to remap spectral sensitivity (orthochromatic/blue-only response) in real-time camera viewfinders, followed by procedural chemical texture simulation for development artifacts. A developer needs domain expertise in computer graphics, Metal/GLSL shader programming, and historical photographic chemistry.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 207 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #38 of 208 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 277 days after the earliest competitor.
- Emulsine: Film Emulation Camera · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- LibreCam: Manual RAW Camera for iPhone · ph · 2026-09-27 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Blanc · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- TimeCam · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Shotwell · ph · 2026-04-05 · 226 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Revela · ph · 2026-10-08 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- DualCapture · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Claritas Gallery Cleaner · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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