{
  "id": 14737980,
  "title": "EXCLUSIVE: This iPhone camera app is built for color from every available Kodak film. Now, it’s going monochrome with a first-of-its-kind tool",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/exclusive-this-iphone-camera-app-is-built-for-color-from-every",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-15T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Digital Camera World",
    "slug": "digital-camera-world",
    "url": "https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/apps/exclusive-this-iphone-camera-app-is-built-for-color-from-every-available-kodak-film-now-its-going-monochrome-with-a-first-of-its-kind-tool"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Dedicated black-and-white cameras yield cleaner, crisper monochrome images by eliminating color filters. However, a color scientist and cinematographer named Renato R. Renieera has now reverse-engineered the iPhone camera to produce fully monochrome 16-bit RAW photographs. Koloristika is an iPhone photography app that utilizes scans of every available Kodak film type to build this unique app. By eliminating Apple's entire processing pipeline—including sharpening and AI upscaling—the app creates a 12MP photograph with nostalgic colors in an editable RAW format. Koloristika has recently introduced a new black-and-white mode called Monolith, which operates at the sensor level to create a 16-bit RAW file in monochrome. Unlike filters that merely remove color data and generate artifacts, Monolith rebuilds the image using the sensor's data, resulting in a cleaner output. Renieera explained that every sensor is fundamentally black and white, with the Bayer data serving as measurements of white light through red, green, and blue filters. \"We attempted a different approach,\" Renieera said, \"as simply nullifying the filters would create checkerboarding and artifacts. Our solution is to reconstruct the data by leveraging the red and blue filters when 50% of the image is green, for instance.\" The outcome is a fully monochromatic 16-bit RAW file, just like the color photos from Koloristika. This new Monolith mode launches alongside the app on October 14, and it is available for free for a limited trial period of 36 photos before requiring a subscription at $2.99 / £2.99 / AU$4.99 / CA$2.99 per month or $19.99 / £19.99 / AU$29.99 / CA$24.99 per year.",
  "summary": "Koloristika is going beyond Kodak-inspired colors with a fully monochrome RAW from the iPhone camera",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}