Set your Blackmagic camera from a photo.
PocketPrimer is a calm, plain-English companion for your Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera. Point your iPhone at the scene, tap your subject, and it dials in exposure, white balance, and ND — then sends those settings to your camera over Bluetooth. No menu diving.
Notify me at launchComing soon to the App Store.
Three taps to a dialed-in shot.
PocketPrimer reads the light with your iPhone's camera, picks the right settings for your scene, and pushes them to your camera. You just look at your subject.
Tell it what you're shooting
Interview, documentary, product, music video — pick the closest match in plain English.
And what your light is doing
Studio, window light, golden hour, dim room — it works with whatever you've got.
Get the plan, send it over
Exposure, aperture, shutter, white balance — dialed in and pushed to your camera in one tap.
Plain English. Quietly excellent.
It talks like a friend who's good at this. "Set f/2.8," not "you might consider f/2.8."
Reads the light
Uses your iPhone's camera to measure exposure, color temperature, dynamic range, and depth at the point you tap.
Picks your settings
Chooses the right look for your scene and intent — shallow depth, deep focus, low-light interior, daylight exterior, and more.
Pushes over Bluetooth
Sends exposure, white balance, frame rate, and codec straight to your BMPCC in one tap.
Knows your ND
Tells you when to add an ND filter — and dials in the camera's internal ND on cameras that have it.
Catches mistakes
Warns you when something's off: a lens you don't have, a frame rate that doesn't match the shot, a gear mismatch.
Works your way
Manual or electronic lenses both supported. For manual glass, it shows clear, guided steps with visual confirmation.
Made for the one-person crew.
Indie filmmakers, solo doc shooters, and narrative crews who'd rather spend their time looking at their subject than pinching through menus. PocketPrimer is the assistant DIT in your pocket — helpful, never in the way.
Your scene stays yours.
PocketPrimer collects nothing. No accounts, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. Your iPhone never sends data to a server — there's no server. The camera read happens on your device, and the photo is discarded after we read brightness from it.
Read the full privacy policy →Coming soon.
Want a heads-up the day it lands on the App Store?
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