KOLORISTIKA APP · UPDATE 1.3.0 · BUILD 100 · MONOLITH™
Jul 20th 2026 • PRESS RELEASE
THE FIRST TRUE MONOCHROME ENGINE FOR IPHONE LAUNCHES TODAY IN THE KOLORISTIKA CAMERA APP, EMPOWERING PROS AND ENTHUSIASTS WITH A MOBILE POWERHOUSE FOR STUNNING BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY.
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Dubai, UAE • July XX, 2026 – The Brim Industrial Imaging Bureau today released Monolith™, a 16bit Monochrome RAW engine, in Koloristika 1.3.0, the app's 100th build, on the App Store. Koloristika is a professional camera app that injects color science built for feature films and cinema cameras into your iOS photos at the sensor level - not as a filter laid on top - ensuring maximum fidelity and precision. Monolith™ extends the pipeline to black and white, reconstructing a true monochrome 16bit RAW negative from the sensor up and surpassing the way phones fake black and white from color images.
Developed by color scientist and cinematographer Renato R. Renierra, Koloristika was born of a desire to bring film emulation to your phone through an idealized photochemical system rather than a sampled emulation LUT. The same cinema color science that Renoto’s color science bureau The Brim spent over a decade deploying on feature films, series, and commercials now starts at the sensor of your phone.
In celebration of its 100th update, Koloristika today offers photographers and cinematographers true 16bit Monochrome RAW from sensor data, for the smoothest monochrome a color sensor camera can create.
"Build 100 was a good occasion for something very special. We already gave our users the best color, and now we give them the best monochrome. Monolith really does the harder thing - it rebuilds the frame as a real monochrome negative, from the sensor up. The engineering is the product,” said Renato R. Renierra, founder of The Brim® and Koloristika.
The problem with monochrome from a color sensor is that it’s achieved by subtraction, rather than constuction. The typical desaturation process leaves behind chroma noise and artifacts of the color image, such as the colored speckle that a demosaicer leaves on every edge, resulting in grey fringing. Shadows collapse into gray mottling, creating soft blobs that make converted frames look cheap. Essentially, it drains an image built for a different purpose, with only a thin margin left to push. Monolith flips that and approaches monochrome from a standpoint of reconstruction from the sensor level up.
Beyond functioning as a high-end stills camera with professional color science, Koloristika is a working director's viewfinder and location-scouting tool. Its Scout Mode feature simulates real cinema-lens focal lengths based on actual film-format standards and sensor sizes. Koloristika can be a powerful tool in pre-production and on set in place of a dedicated director's viewfinder to plan and simplify shoots.
Koloristika is built around one idea: every photo keeps its full RAW. Because the RAW image is maintained, you can combine two of them into a new one (the feature “Doublet”); recompose, re-lens, and re-format a shot long after you took it (“Reframe”); or straighten a tilted horizon at capture and undo it later (“Auto Horizon").
Monolith™ ships today in Koloristika 1.3.0, available to subscribers at no additional cost, on the App Store.
For new users, Koloristika offers a 36-shot free trial with no time limit.
Developed by color scientist and cinematographer Renato R. Renierra, Koloristika was born of a desire to bring film emulation to your phone through an idealized photochemical system rather than a sampled emulation LUT. The same cinema color science that Renoto’s color science bureau The Brim spent over a decade deploying on feature films, series, and commercials now starts at the sensor of your phone.
In celebration of its 100th update, Koloristika today offers photographers and cinematographers true 16bit Monochrome RAW from sensor data, for the smoothest monochrome a color sensor camera can create.
"Build 100 was a good occasion for something very special. We already gave our users the best color, and now we give them the best monochrome. Monolith really does the harder thing - it rebuilds the frame as a real monochrome negative, from the sensor up. The engineering is the product,” said Renato R. Renierra, founder of The Brim® and Koloristika.
The problem with monochrome from a color sensor is that it’s achieved by subtraction, rather than constuction. The typical desaturation process leaves behind chroma noise and artifacts of the color image, such as the colored speckle that a demosaicer leaves on every edge, resulting in grey fringing. Shadows collapse into gray mottling, creating soft blobs that make converted frames look cheap. Essentially, it drains an image built for a different purpose, with only a thin margin left to push. Monolith flips that and approaches monochrome from a standpoint of reconstruction from the sensor level up.
Beyond functioning as a high-end stills camera with professional color science, Koloristika is a working director's viewfinder and location-scouting tool. Its Scout Mode feature simulates real cinema-lens focal lengths based on actual film-format standards and sensor sizes. Koloristika can be a powerful tool in pre-production and on set in place of a dedicated director's viewfinder to plan and simplify shoots.
Koloristika is built around one idea: every photo keeps its full RAW. Because the RAW image is maintained, you can combine two of them into a new one (the feature “Doublet”); recompose, re-lens, and re-format a shot long after you took it (“Reframe”); or straighten a tilted horizon at capture and undo it later (“Auto Horizon").
Monolith™ ships today in Koloristika 1.3.0, available to subscribers at no additional cost, on the App Store.
For new users, Koloristika offers a 36-shot free trial with no time limit.
MONOLITH™ DEMO SHOTS
Download the JPGs, or the RAWs to test it yourself. Every Monolith frame develops like any other negative, so grade it, zoom in, and check it under a loupe.
* More demo shots are available in the press kit at the bottom.
Download the JPGs, or the RAWs to test it yourself. Every Monolith frame develops like any other negative, so grade it, zoom in, and check it under a loupe.
* More demo shots are available in the press kit at the bottom.
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ABOUT KOLORISTIKA
The Brim Industrial Imaging Bureau has built color science and image-processing systems for cinema and advertising since 2015. Its color science has appeared on streaming features and series, on global advertising for brands including Hermès, Mercedes-AMG, and Nike, in music videos for artists including Björk, U2, and Drake, and was used by Sony to demonstrate the VENICE 2 cinema camera for IMAX production, among much other work held under NDA. The Brim's tools live inside professional camera pipelines, color-grading suites, and post-production houses on every continent. Koloristika is the first time The Brim's technology has shipped to a person instead of a production, and the public debut of its DSTOCKTM and SilverlithTM color science engines, seven years in the making, which reach the studio's cinema clients next.
The full picture is on koloristika.app. Seeing for yourself is on the App Store.
* The download includes 36 shots free, no clock. Extended access passes are available through the press contact below.
The Brim Industrial Imaging Bureau has built color science and image-processing systems for cinema and advertising since 2015. Its color science has appeared on streaming features and series, on global advertising for brands including Hermès, Mercedes-AMG, and Nike, in music videos for artists including Björk, U2, and Drake, and was used by Sony to demonstrate the VENICE 2 cinema camera for IMAX production, among much other work held under NDA. The Brim's tools live inside professional camera pipelines, color-grading suites, and post-production houses on every continent. Koloristika is the first time The Brim's technology has shipped to a person instead of a production, and the public debut of its DSTOCKTM and SilverlithTM color science engines, seven years in the making, which reach the studio's cinema clients next.
The full picture is on koloristika.app. Seeing for yourself is on the App Store.
* The download includes 36 shots free, no clock. Extended access passes are available through the press contact below.
ABOUT THE BRIM
The Brim Industrial Imaging Bureau is a color-science lab founded in 2014 by cinematographer and color scientist Renato R. Renierra. The Brim's color science has appeared on features and series for Netflix, and Apple TV+, in global campaigns for Hermès, Mercedes-AMG, and Nike, and in music videos for Björk, U2, and Drake. Sony used The Brim's color science to demonstrate the VENICE 2 cinema camera for IMAX production, and The Brim's tools are fixtures for ASC, CSC, and BSC cinematographers and in post houses worldwide. Among much work held under non-disclosure
The Brim Industrial Imaging Bureau is a color-science lab founded in 2014 by cinematographer and color scientist Renato R. Renierra. The Brim's color science has appeared on features and series for Netflix, and Apple TV+, in global campaigns for Hermès, Mercedes-AMG, and Nike, and in music videos for Björk, U2, and Drake. Sony used The Brim's color science to demonstrate the VENICE 2 cinema camera for IMAX production, and The Brim's tools are fixtures for ASC, CSC, and BSC cinematographers and in post houses worldwide. Among much work held under non-disclosure
RENATO R. RENIERRA BIO
Renato R. Renierra is a cinematographer and color scientist, and the CEO and founder of The Brim Industrial Imaging Bureau. For over a decade, Renato and The Brim have built the color science and image-processing systems behind feature films and series distributed on Netflix and Apple TV+, advertising for brands including Hermès, Mercedes-AMG, and Nike (including Super Bowl campaigns), and music videos for artists including Björk, U2, and Drake, among many others, with further work covered by NDA.
The Brim's color science was also used by Sony to demonstrate its VENICE 2 cinema camera for IMAX production, the rendition Hollywood cinematographers saw as the Venice 2's IMAX color. The Brim's tools are used by ASC, CSC, and BSC cinematographers and have become default fixtures inside major post-production houses worldwide, the technology productions reach for where close enough isn't. Koloristika is the first time Renato has put that work in the hands of everyone with a phone, rather than a film crew.
Renato R. Renierra is a cinematographer and color scientist, and the CEO and founder of The Brim Industrial Imaging Bureau. For over a decade, Renato and The Brim have built the color science and image-processing systems behind feature films and series distributed on Netflix and Apple TV+, advertising for brands including Hermès, Mercedes-AMG, and Nike (including Super Bowl campaigns), and music videos for artists including Björk, U2, and Drake, among many others, with further work covered by NDA.
The Brim's color science was also used by Sony to demonstrate its VENICE 2 cinema camera for IMAX production, the rendition Hollywood cinematographers saw as the Venice 2's IMAX color. The Brim's tools are used by ASC, CSC, and BSC cinematographers and have become default fixtures inside major post-production houses worldwide, the technology productions reach for where close enough isn't. Koloristika is the first time Renato has put that work in the hands of everyone with a phone, rather than a film crew.
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Koloristika Monolith™ • Full Press Kit
Fact sheet, screenshots, demo shots in RAW and JPG, all in one download. 
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