Duorama: Support
A vintage film camera built for iPhone Duo.
Getting started
Duorama is built for iPhone Duo, and its waist-level finder needs iPhone Duo. Half-fold your iPhone Duo and hold it at your waist, flat half facing up. The half with the cameras stands up and faces your subject; the flat half is the ground glass you look down into. Press the shutter release beside the glass to take a photo, then turn the crank one full turn to wind on to the next frame. Closed, or opened out flat, the same camera works at eye level.
On any other iPhone with iOS 18 or later, Duorama works as an eye-level camera, without the waist-level finder.
Tap the glass to raise the magnifier and focus. Push the film card up or down to change film. Tap the nameplate on the film back for Settings.
Questions
Why aren’t my photos in Photos?
Until you buy, the photos you take wait in the camera, undeveloped: your first roll on each film back. Tap Develop this roll on the contact sheet, or Develop film in Settings. After buying, each finished roll goes to Photos with its contact sheet, and a roll you’re still shooting follows when you finish it, like film back from the lab; turn on Save each photo right away in Settings to get each photo as you take it.
I bought it on another iPhone, or reinstalled the app.
The purchase usually comes back by itself. If it doesn’t, tap Restore Purchases on the contact sheet or in Settings. Refunds go through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.
The finder shows the picture back to front.
Like a real waist-level finder, the glass shows the picture reversed left to right. Your photos are never reversed. Settings, Finder, Reverse the picture turns it off.
The shutter won’t fire.
After each shot the signal is red and the finder goes dark until you wind on: turn the crank one full turn. At the end of a roll, the contact sheet opens; load a new roll from there (after developing, if you haven’t bought yet).
Where’s the waist-level finder?
It needs iPhone Duo. Half-fold your iPhone Duo, hold it at your waist and look down into the glass. On any other iPhone with iOS 18 or later, Duorama works as an eye-level camera: the same film looks, rolls and controls, without the waist-level finder.
It says Duorama is for iPhone, and there’s no camera.
That note appears only on a device that isn’t an iPhone, such as an iPad running the iPhone version. Duorama is built for iPhone Duo, where it has the waist-level finder, and works as an eye-level camera on any iPhone with iOS 18 or later. Elsewhere it shows only that note, and offers no purchase.
No shutter sound?
The camera’s sounds follow the Ring/Silent switch. Where the law requires the system’s own shutter sound, that one plays instead.
The camera or Photos isn’t allowed.
Open the iPhone’s Settings app, find Duorama, and allow Camera, and Photos (Add Photos Only). Photos waiting to be saved are kept safe in the meantime.
Contact
Email serkandal@icloud.com. Please include your iOS version and what you were doing when it happened.