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The Rewindpix Camera Project
credits: Rewindpix
Rewindpix is a new digital camera project from photographer and designer Xiao Liu, built around the idea that digital shooting has gotten a bit ‘too fast’ and ‘too screen-heavy’. After trying cameras like the Camp Snap and FlashBack One, Liu felt they still didn’t capture the feeling of the compact film cameras many people grew up with. So Rewindpix, with its upcoming camera goes in the opposite direction, a big, bright optical viewfinder, a mechanical winder, a physical shutter, and only a tiny rear display that shows basic info. The design takes inspiration from classic Agfa compacts, complete with a Xenon flash and boxy shape, but it is still very much a digital camera underneath.
The shooting experience is built around two modes. Camera mode is the simpler one, you pick from three built-in looks (Sunny Warm, Breezy Cool, or Simply Mono) and just shoot. The camera stores over 1,200 photos and gets roughly 300 shots on a charge. Film mode slows things down even more, once you pick a look, you are locked into it for 36 frames, like a digital roll of film. Through the app, you can load more than 20 film-inspired profiles or create your own, including stocks modeled after Portra or colour palettes inspired by specific filmmakers. Hardware-wise, it uses a 13MP 1/3-inch sensor and an f/2.2 glass lens, plus a front filter thread and swappable shutter buttons.
According to the Rewindpix team, the whole project is meant to bring back a bit of the anticipation and physical interaction that film shooters miss, without giving up the convenience of digital. There is no image playback, so you don’t fall into the usual shoot-check-delete loop. A large optical viewfinder and mechanical controls do most of the work. The camera is expected to ship in 2026 and will debut on Kickstarter, where a pre-launch page is already live. Pricing details are still to come.
You can see full details on Rewindpix’s Kickstarter page here
Darkroom Photo Editor Version 7 Is Here
credits: Darkroom
Darkroom has rolled out version 7, and it is one of the most substantial updates the app has seen in its decade of existence. The company rebuilt the entire rendering engine to better handle today’s big RAW files, high-resolution photos, and increasingly heavy video formats. The app still looks familiar, but navigation is smoother, edits respond faster, and everything just feels more stable. Darkroom also says that the overhaul isn’t just about fixing current bottlenecks, but meant to set the stage for whatever features they want to build over the next several years.
On the surface, there are a few obvious additions. Two new analog-inspired effects, Bloom and Halation, which bring glow and film-like colour bleed to edges. Video editing gets a noticeable upgrade with smoother scrubbing, cleaner playback, time coded navigation, and a real-time histogram that updates instantly as you adjust footage. Highlight and shadow recovery has been reworked thanks to the move to a linear colour space, giving you more room to pull detail from tricky lighting situations. Viewing controls are more flexible now as well, letting you zoom far beyond the image frame or dive down to pixel level, while previews load at consistently higher quality.
A lot of the improvements show up in everyday use. Sliders behave more responsively, masking feels more precise, and the crop tool now works the same on iOS as it does on macOS. Darkroom also refreshed its app icon and introduced alternate designs for subscribers. One notable change, version 7 drops support for Intel Macs, since the new engine depends on Apple Silicon’s hardware acceleration. The update is free (as is most of the app) and rolling out gradually, though exporting edits that use Bloom or Halation requires a Darkroom+ subscription at $9.99 per month or $39.99 per year.
You can see full details on Darkroom’s website here
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