Tech Scout Camera
LUT Camera & Director's Finder
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Tech Scout is a LUT-based still camera with film emulation, director's viewfinder, sun tracker, and exposure meter designed for film industry professionals.
Tech Scout bypasses iOS’s computational photography pipeline by leveraging film industry post production color workflows and advanced film emulation tools, bringing an entirely new type of photography to your iPhone.
A still camera with a motion picture camera under the hood. Accurately emulate all major motion picture cameras. Any look, any camera, right in your pocket.
At Tech Scout’s core is its camera system. Motion picture image science and film emulation tools have been fully ported to run locally on device, without cloud compute or AI-assisted image processing. Apple's computational photography image pipeline is replaced by wide color gamut, ACES-derived log workflows, standardizing to the same image pipeline film industry professionals work with every day.
Tech Scout has fully native image science support for the Arri Alexa and Alexa 35, the Sony Venice family of cameras, all modern RED Digital Cinema cameras, Fujifilm Eterna, DJI, Canon Log 3, and BlackMagic version 5 color science, as well as both Apple Log and Apple Log 2. All of these gammas/color spaces are available on all supported iPhone models, and can be accurately previewed live with the LUT of your choice using our unique Scout Viewfinder.
Also included are Scout custom looks, pulled from Brook Willard's personal LUT library and tuned to the capabilities of the iPhone camera system. Scout's Film Emulation engine is Brook's own design; Tech Scout is the first public release of a previously internal tool developed for use on some of the largest motion pictures in history.
Director’s Viewfinder:
Load your show LUT and scout like you shoot. With a library of dozens of cameras, hundreds of record modes, thousands of lenses, and cinema camera image science, Tech Scout is a major step forward for phone-based directors viewfinders.
And sharing projects is easier than ever. You can AirDrop, iMessage, or email your Tech Scout projects instantly, including not only your project settings but your custom show LUT as well.
Sun Position:
Every director’s viewfinder capture features a sun position visualizer, showing relative sun position, sunrise, sunset, and other critical metadata. Whether you’re a cinematographer, director, or locations, your viewfinder captures will carry enormously valuable information for your crew.
Exposure Mode:
Tech Scout’s exposure mode allows you to accurately measure scene exposure on your chosen camera system. With waveform monitors, false color, EL Zone, and both LUT and log preview of your project’s look, exposure mode is a quick and accurate way to judge scene dynamic range and light levels.
Film Emulation
Scout’s Film Emulation engine features motion picture quality film grain, halation, edge softening, glow, and dye layer light scattering.
Camera Mode
Tech Scout includes a fully-featured camera mode, with support for Bayer RAW capture, Apple ProRAW Capture, and Scout Pro mode on supported phones. Fully manual controls, LUT and film emulation support, burst mode, flash support, and every other feature that you would anticipate in a dedicated professional camera app.
Love your favorite cinema camera’s look? Have a preferred LUT? Wish you had a film camera in your pocket? Tired of AI-assisted photography? Tech Scout’s camera mode is the tool you’ve been waiting for.
Scout Viewfinder
In order to accurately display Scout’s image science live onscreen, the Scout Viewfinder bypasses iOS’s camera preview altogether. Instead, Tech Scout captures and processes full-resolution RAW images in realtime and displays them live. This novel approach brings accurate look preview to the full range of supported iPhone models.
Tech Scout is designed and engineered by cinematographer and former digital imaging technician Brook Willard. Tech Scout is a $19.99/year auto‑renewing subscription with a 7‑day free trial.
Tech Scout v1.0.2 introduces major new features, including PDF creation, integration between the Director’s Finder and Exposure Mode, updated in-app galleries, LUT import improvements, and numerous quality-of-life updates and bug fixes.
CAMERA MODE
• Flash compensation: after a flash capture, an exposure preview and adjustment window will appear prior to image processing.
• Updated halation and glow rendering.
• Improved image science for motion picture camera emulation.
• Usability with Scout Viewfinder disabled has been improved, allowing for better compatibility with older iPhone models.
DIRECTOR’S FINDER
• You can now generate PDF reports from your Director’s Finder projects. These include contact sheets, vectorized data overlays for easy searching, full page setup and formatting controls, all adjustable to your specific preferences. Designed for printing or sharing digitally, directly from Tech Scout.
• Director’s Finder and Exposure Modes are now coupled. Exposure information and settings now track between modes.
• Director’s Finder onscreen overlay now shows calculated scene exposure information - FPS, EI, shutter, ND, calculated iris, and white balance. You now see accurate scene exposure onscreen in the camera data overlay.
• Gallery has been updated to support both PDF creation and viewing.
• The gallery project tray can now be collapsed, and new filters have been added.
• Director’s Finder captures now save to Tech Scout Library by default - no more iOS Photo Library clutter. You can automatically import your existing captures at any time.
• Scout projects are now easier to share and receive via iOS Messages.
• Usability updates and bug-fixes throughout.
EXPOSURE MODE
• Exposure Mode is now integrated into your current Director’s Finder project, including camera settings, exposure settings, and save directory.
• Auto EI feature added: complementary to Auto ND, Auto EI will calculate the ideal ISO for the scene based on a target iris and your camera settings.
• Exposure Mode captures are saved in your current Director’s Finder project by default.
• Exposure Mode captures can be included in Director’s Finder report PDFs.
LOOKS & LUT MANAGEMENT
• LUT import workflow has been simplified dramatically. A new “Import LUT” button has been added to setup mode.
• LUT files can now be added directly from iOS Messages, Mail, AirDrop, or Files.
• Multiple LUTs can now be imported simultaneously.
• LUT target color space can be adjusted after import.
• Performance improvements for large LUT files.
NOTABLE BUG FIXES
• Fixed a bug where captures could encounter an error on iOS 18.
• Fixed a bug where multiple photos could not be shared simultaneously.
• Fixed a bug where Apple ProRAW captures could process with the wrong exposure.
The developer, Brook Willard, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Brook Willard
- Size
- 294.2 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.2 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.2 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.2 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.1 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Tech Scout $19.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Brook Willard