EVERYONE’S TRUE COMPACT CAMERA
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REAL PHOTOGRAPHY MUST REMAIN IN PEOPLE’S HANDS
Photography began as a way to preserve reality through light itself. Today, in an era shaped by AI generation and opaque computational processing, that relationship with the image is becoming uncertain.
Viewfinder Mobile brings intentional photography back into people’s hands. A free Android camera built around real photographic capture, Bayer RAW imaging, and transparent provenance through Content Credentials.
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MANACO MATSUMOTO ↗ JAPAN
PIXEL 7A — ISO 50 — 1/2000
LOGAN MACKAY ↗ CANADA
XIAOMI 12T PRO — ISO 100 — 1/30
NUEVO.TOKYO ↗ JAPAN
XIAOMI 14 ULTRA
NUEVO.TOKYO ↗ JAPAN
XIAOMI 14 ULTRA
KEN GIANG ↗ NETHERLANDS
NOTHING 3A — ISO 50 — 1/2500
LIHBR ↗ JAPAN
NOTHING 2 — ISO 50 — 1/8
MIREIA.STUDIO ↗ JAPAN.
GOOGLE PIXEL 9A — ISO 125 — 1/5000
EMANUELE DI MARE ↗ ITALY
LEITZAPHONE 3 — ISO 50 - 1/3000
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Designed as everyone’s true compact camera, VWFNDR™ + MBL transforms the phone into a genuine photographic tool. Aspect ratio selection, priority modes, manual controls are all available on a single screen to make unprocessed RAW capture seamless.
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FRAME REALITY THE WAY YOU WANT
WITH 6 TRADITIONAL ASPECT RATIOS
DEFAULT CAMERA PHOTO
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A camera that takes worse* photos, finally again. No HDR stacking, no tone mapping, no computational tricks. Just what the sensor sees.
* unprocessed
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VWFNDR™ + MBL PHOTO
-2 EV UNDEREXPOSED DNG
DNG RECOVERED IN LIGHTROOM
SHOT ON XIAOMI 14 ULTRA
A TRUE DIGITAL NEGATIVE
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Every photo captured with MBL carries proof that it was taken by a real camera, not generated or constructed. That proof lives inside the file itself: a tamper-evident record, built on the open Content Credentials standard from C2PA. Images can be verified at verify.vwfndr.camera
VWFNDR™ is the fourth company in the world to achieve C2PA Level 2 conformance, and the second, after Google, to support it for DNG.
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CHOOSE YOUR FRAMING
MANUAL/AUTOMATIC + PRIORITY MODES
— CUSTOM BUTTON
CUSTOM INTERFACE LAYOUT
FULLY REORDERABLE
REAL PHOTOGRAPHY MUST REMAIN IN PEOPLE’S HANDS
SPECS
DEVELOPMENT
TYPOGRAPHY
SOUND FX
VWFNDR™
MANUFACTURER
MBL
MODEL NAME
1.0.0 — MAY 2026
RELEASE VERSION
Android 10 (API 29) or higher
PLATFORM
Main Back Sensor (exact model depends on phone)
SENSOR
12 million pixels (as witnessed on most Android phones)
NUMBER OF EFFECTIVE PIXELS
MBL Android 1 (partly accurate as we don’t have much hand on what happens on the camera module side)
IMAGE PROCESSING ENGINE
Bayer Raw DNG — up to 16bit
JPEG — 8bit
FILE FORMAT OF STILL IMAGES
VWFNDR™ DNG + JPG
VWFNDR™ DNG
VWFNDR™ JPG
FILE FORMAT MODE
[Horizontal]
1:1: 3072 × 3072
6:7: 3072 × 3584
3:4: 3072 × 4096
2:3: 2730 × 4096
9:16: 2304 × 4096
1:2: 2048 × 4096
[Vertical]
1:1: 3072 × 3072
7:6: 3584 × 3072
4:3: 4096 × 3072
3:2: 4096 × 2730
16:9: 4096 × 2304
2:1: 4096 × 2048
NUMBER OF RECORDED PIXELS
[ as witnessed on most Android phones ]
Continuous
Fixed AF [ 0.2m, 0.5m, 1m, 1.5m, 3m, 5m, infinity ]
FOCUS MODE
Single point AF
AF FRAME SELECTION
Approx. 0.2m
MINIMUM FOCUS DISTANCE
Auto + Manual
ISO 10~51200 [ 1/3 steps ]
10 — 25 — 50 — 80 — 100 — 125 — 160 — 200 — 250 — 320 — 400 — 500 — 640 — 800 — 1000 — 1250 — 1600 — 2000 — 2500 — 3200 — 4000 — 5000 — 6400 — 8000 — 10000 — 12800 — 25600 — 51200
SENSITIVITY
[ availability differs by phone ]
Center weighted
Spot
EXPOSURE CONTROL
EXPOSURE MODE
EXPOSURE COMPENSATION
Auto
P (Program AE / ISO Priority)
S (Shutter Speed Priority AE)
M (Manual Exposure)
-2.0EV~+2.0EV 1/3EV step
(some phones might have greater EV ranges and different EV steps)
Optical image stabilisation: YES (if available on the phone)
IMAGE STABILISER
Auto 1/30sec. to 1/16000sec.
P/S/M mode 8sec. to 1/16000sec.
8 — 4 — 2 — 1 — 1/2 — 1/4 — 1/8 — 1/15 — 1/30 — 1/60 — 1/125 — 1/250 — 1/500 — 1/1000 — 1/2000 — 1/4000 — 1/8000 — 1/16000
SHUTTER SPEED
Electronic
SHUTTER TYPE
Off
Slow
Fast
Flash
PRESETS
EVF
1:1, 6:7, 3:4, 2:3, 9:16, 1:2
1:1, 7:6, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 2:1
Coverage of viewing area vs. capturing area Approx. 100%
VIEWFINDER
Tap: focus and exposure area
Swipe: change aspect ratio
Swipe up/left: settings
Swipe down/right: gallery
TOUCH SCREEN MODE
Cycle presets
Cycle AE modes
Cycle fixed focus
VOLUME UP MODE
Shutter
VOLUME DOWN MODE
CONTENT CREDENTIALS
Shiro
Midori
Kiro
Aka
Sakura
Ao
Murasaki
UI COLOURS
Approx. 0.5sec.
STARTING UP PERIOD
DESIGN
PRIVACY
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