Darkr - Black And White Filter Reviews

I am a large and medium format photographer, best known for my portraiture. This is a super enjoyable app and a great way of using the iPhone camera. Among the highlights, my favorite is that the large format camera is just as fidgety as the real thing and demands a focus on composition in the same way. The film choices, dodging, burning, blurring, filtering and other options yield great photos. And you have to have a good eye, this is for people who understand, or are willing to learn, that artistry is proportional to effort. I will be eager to see how it develops over time.

Perhaps I just misread the description or I was being stupid but I thought Darkr could scan my actual negatives and edit them. I will no longer have access to a dark room and was excited to see an app that could help me “develop” my remaining negatives. ((Wouldn’t that be amazing? Bypassing the whole printing process then scanning and editing the photos on/to a computer THEN saving them to the cloud to post on Instagram and other platforms?!))
Anyways, it’s a good app and I recommend it for pristine black and white photography. I however will probably not use it - I’m too let down to use this at the moment.

This takes me back to the supply room darkroom I started out in with my friends Pentax. The magic that happened in those smelly trays thrills me forty years later. Thanks for recreating the experience here: I love screwing around with exposures and emulsions. Throw in a gray filter when you get the chance so we can play around more with depth of field. Dream list- the ability to under or over develop the negatives. Hope you make millions on this fresh fresh look at photography in the digital age. Fun!

I’ve wanted an app like this for a very long time. I stumbled upon this browsing Darkr Store and downloaded it instantly. It takes some getting use to but it’s worth trying. I really appreciate the tutorials. It has been a long time since I’ve been in a darkroom.
For me, using this app is like traveling back in time to what helped me fall in love with photography, the darkroom. Thank you for this. I can’t wait to see what it develops into. Just don’t go away! lol

I’m finding Darkr refreshing. It is beautifully done in B&W and brings the reader into the timeless darkroom. Tying today’s digital photography to the timeless darkroom and does in in B&W.

I just started using Darkr. I think it’s a very unique app in the way it approaches some of the basic and important rules of photography. I have only browsed the other topics so I can’t yet give my opinion. If Darkr allows, I will give my review of the remaining topics as I finish them. I can’t put Darkr away:)

Hi there! I absolutely love your app! I was wondering if there’s a way to add a feature where you could control the “color” of the selenium toner. I worked tons with Agfa Multi Contrast Classic paper and when you selenium toned that it generate an amazing hue. And I would love to replicate that if possible. Thanks for an amazing app and for sharing your love of all things film, cameras and photography!

I’ve only just started playing around with this but I think it has great potential. I think anyone that has ever done traditional black and white darkroom work will feel right at home. It is a great way for others to feel what it was like without the chemicals! There are also a lot of good pointers about improving your photos with compositional pointers.

If you’ve ever used large or medium format cameras and a real darkroom, you’ll love Darkr and the level of creative scope it gives you with just the few filter and camera options. Seems like there isn’t much here, but it does a whole lot that no other camera app will do.

Darkr is one to add to the collection that is different from the pack.

Darkr changes my world! Finally I can capture beautiful photos of black and white on my phone, and learn to see the world through a softer light. Thanks for making a quality product, which I will be upgrading to the fully paid feature soon. Food for thought: a pinhole camera mode.
Thanks!

I’ve done some dark room fun in college, loved it, since then looked for apps that offered the same classic looks to digital media, and I found this beauty! I adore Darkr and if I could support it multiple times, I would, I love it! Easy set up, controls, and a great tribute to dark rooms in this digital age. Keep up the great work!

Darkr is wonderful. It’s not a point & shoot process with tons of the same old filters. It’s a process of taking your time, framing your shot, and creating the image. Mocking dark room techniques, you can create beautiful black & white photographs from your phone.

So this developer has another app that looks exactly the same that goes by the name this app. I am certain this has been asked plenty of times, but can someone please, in simple language, explain the differences between the two if there is any?
And if they are the same why not simply remove one of them from Darkr Store?

Darkr has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it you will fall in love. You have a lot of control over how you want the picture to look like, including the ISO and what film you want to use (basically how you want the colors too look like).

Darkr is seriously the best iPhone photo editing app I have come across so far. I shoot medium format film and this really is a great fun tool for the iPhone and my iPhonography. I can't speak highly enough about Darkr. Favorite so far for iPhone work!!!

Awesome app with plenty of control over your image. Small learning curve if you don’t understand the darkroom process but it has tutorials that are simple to follow. Master the this app app and you will create some jaw-dropping photography.

Come on we are in 2019, why digitally simulate a darkroom workflow when you have really great photo editing apps for iOS out there already. Digital is not a negative going to a paper and shouldn’t be treated as such as it just makes the digital workflow way slower and a bigger hassle. If you’re interested in Darkroom techniques it’s not that expensive to buy an enlarger and the trays plus liquid. And if you do black and white it’s really easy to also develop the film yourself. Digital is digital.

There is no chance to test it, try it or play with it without paying full price. It might be an excellent tool but I do not support the false advertising used in Darkr Store to entice me to download it. There are plenty of terrific apps out there- and if I can’t trust you to promote your tech honestly why would I trust you with my images?

The mystery (or is that mastery) of the art of photography comes to life with Darkr. This is not an app for someone who wants fun filters or easy edits. This is an app for someone who appreciates how far photography has come and wants to enjoy magic without sniffing silver halides.

If you're looking for an app with excessive filters and "cutesy" overlays, this isn't it.

However, if you'd like to get a hint of how it felt to shoot analogue and develop in a darkroom, Darkr is a fun exercise.

Like film and darkroom processing, this app forces you to slow down and consider your photographic choices and actions. It's not a go-to, grab-a-shot-on-the-fly camera app. But it IS a way to expand your photographic thinking.

And I love the medium and large format options--and this app's execution of them!

The viewfinder lags, and it crashes often while editing, leading to lots of frustration and lost time. Until that’s fixed there’s pretty much to reason to use this not even knowing if my progress is going to be saved. I just bought the full version too 🤷🏽‍♂️