Film Notes & Metadata With Frames

The challenge of remembering details.

Traditional film cameras, while cherished for their tactile experience and image quality, lack the digital convenience of metadata recording. Photographers often resort to notebooks or memory to recall specifics like aperture, shutter speed, or film type used for a particular shot. This method, however, can be prone to errors or omissions.

Frames.

Frames is a one-man project born out of a passion for film photography and meticulous documentation. The apps are free (paid in-app upgrades available), ad-free, and respectful of your privacy.

As a photographer myself, I created Frames to offer a seamless, intuitive solution for logging essential shooting details. Here’s what I built it to do:

Easily record comprehensive data like frame numbers, focal lengths, shutter speeds, exposure compensation, aperture, flash settings, lens, camera, film stock, dates, times, and geolocations.

Attach visual references directly to each frame to add context and clarity.

Organize your entire film library effortlessly with customizable folders and advanced search tools, ensuring every session is within easy reach.

An app for Mac and iPhone.

Frames is available on both iPhone and Mac platforms. The iPhone app is built for on-the-go data entry during shoots, whereas the Mac app facilitates the integration of recorded metadata into scanned images, streamlining the post-processing phase.

Metadata Embedding.

Post-development, integrating metadata into digital scans can be cumbersome. Frames simplifies this with Metadata Embedding, a feature that lets you merge the recorded data from your Frames apps into the JPEG file directly.

Tailored app design.

I designed Frames to make it convenient to use for film photography enthusiasts like myself. Its interface adjusts to match lens characteristics, accommodating full, half, or third aperture clicks. And it has a pre-loaded selection of over 200 film stocks, with the ability to add custom entries for quicker entries. The app follows Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for a smooth and intuitive user experience.

Privacy and accessibility.

Frames does not collect personal data. The application is free to download, with optional in-app purchases for enhanced features on the Mac version.

Find Frames on the App Store and the Mac App Store.