https://artimitates.life/tags/mobile/ Recent content in Mobile on Art Imitates Life Hugo en Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +1000 https://artimitates.life/blog/film-grain-and-halation/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +1000 https://artimitates.life/blog/film-grain-and-halation/ <p>For about a decade, the phone camera has been engineered to remove things. Noise, blown highlights, soft edges, uneven skin. Every generation got cleaner, smoother and more even, until a lot of us started to find the results a little lifeless.</p> <p>This year Apple went the other way. The iPhone 18 Pro (only) adds a Film texture and a Grain control to Photographic Styles, which put back two things film photographers spent a century trying to get rid of: grain and halation.</p>