‘The Last Jedi’ Director Launches a New Camera App for iPhone (Because He’s a Good Guy)

Rian Johnson, the director behind Knives Out and The Last Jediobviously seemed like Apple’s iPhone electronic camera app wasn’t sufficient. He made his own.

Johnson revealed the brand-new app Wednesday in a post on X. “So I just recently pestered my cinematographer into making my perfect iPhone still video camera app. It shoots RAW, bypasses the iPhone’s appearance processing and rather utilizes the very same image processing we utilize on our films,” Johnson composed in the post.

The app, called Chromagraph Camera, was established with Johnson’s long time cinematographer Steve Yedlin, who has actually dealt with each of his function movies, beginning with Brick in 2005. Their “genius color science coder pal” Eric Cameron likewise dealt with it.

I truthfully simply asked Steve (and our genius color science coder pal Eric Cameron )to make it since I take a lots of pictures with my phone and wished to have it for myself, and they figured hey, let’s put it out there. Hope you delight in! pic.twitter.com/PrfNhkgaB7

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) October 28, 2026

Johnson stated he has actually try out lots of excellent third-party video camera tools throughout the years, however explained the brand-new app as an “classy one-stop store.”

Unlike other electronic camera apps, Chromagraph begins with raw image information and bypasses the iPhone’s basic image processing. Rather, it utilizes the custom-made image processing Yedlin established for his movies.

“It’s a simple to utilize cam with a curated, artistic appearance. It’s not a ‘filter’ on top of the iPhone processing, however rather totally bypasses the iPhone appearance management and changes it with the very same customized mathematics I utilize on all my movies, customized to Apple video camera habits,” Yedlin composed in an Instagram post

Yedlin explained the outcome as “the nuanced and distinctive making of tonality and chromaticity (along with grain and halation) that Rian, Eric, and I personally like.”

Signature appearance, the app lets users tweak their images by changing color, tone, and texture.

In the meantime, the Chromagraph Camera app just takes still images. Johnson stated video assistance might be available in the future, though it would likely be restricted to more recent iPhone designs.

It presently ranks 2nd on the App Store’s Photo & & Video chart and costs $12.99.

There’s some bad news for Android users. The app will likely stay special to Apple gadgets.

“Hardware consistency throughout Apple gadgets belongs to what enables us to do this with self-confidence. Android gadgets are far more different, and there’s no other way with our little group we might call it in for each gadget,” Johnson composed on X.

The app comes more than 6 years after Johnson exposed an uncommon Apple policy. According to the director, the business permits its phones to appear in films, however never ever in the hands of bad guys.

“Apple, they let you utilize iPhones in motion pictures however, and this is really essential if you’re ever enjoying a secret motion picture– bad guys can not have iPhones on video camera,” he stated in a 2020 video for Vanity Fair. “Every single filmmaker who has a bad guy in their film that’s expected to be a secret wishes to murder me today.”