Film photography has always been a craft of patience and precision — a dance of light, chemistry, and instinct. But as the world shifted toward digital, the way we documented and preserved our analog work didn’t evolve at the same pace. That gap led to the birth of Frames, a modern tool crafted for today’s analog photographers who want to honor the traditional process while embracing the best of digital organization.
Frames isn't just an app. It’s a full ecosystem — a film photography notebook for iPhone users combined with a powerful macOS companion designed for metadata reintegration into scanned images. It allows photographers to record exposure settings, gear details, film stocks, and shooting notes at the moment of capture — and later embed that information into the final digital files.
In short, it helps keep the soul of film photography alive, even after the negatives have been scanned.
Frames is the evolution of an earlier project called Datafilm — a simple mobile app that let users log technical notes while shooting. Datafilm was built on a personal need: how often would you shoot a roll, only to forget the exact settings or gear you used weeks later when scans finally arrived?
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While Datafilm solved part of the problem, it became clear there was a bigger opportunity: photographers didn’t just want to store notes; they wanted those notes to travel with their images.
That realization was the turning point. Datafilm evolved into Frames — a complete redesign, with deeper features, smoother user experience, and a broader vision: from capturing notes to completing the full analog-to-digital workflow.
And critically, it introduced a major new piece: the Frames macOS app. With it, users could import their scans and merge all the recorded settings directly into the EXIF metadata of their JPEG files. For the first time, a single workflow honored both the shooting process and the final digital archive — without needing third-party editors or messy manual tagging.
In a world dominated by automation and instant results, film photography still demands presence, patience, and thoughtfulness. Frames was built to respect that spirit.