01Cull
Every pick is yours
Arrow through the take. X rejects, a number rates, and undo covers a whole batch as one step.
Lamplit — Keyboard-first culling for working photographers.
From card to keepers before the coffee’s cold.
Copy off the card with every byte verified, then cull, caption and transmit — in an interface built this decade.
Closed beta · macOS and Windows · nothing to buy yet
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- 17
- RAW formats
- 40
- Camera files verified
- 21
- Bodies named
- 2
- Platforms
Verified against real camera files by an automated harness, last run . See the matrix
The problem
Culling is the slowest part of the job.
You already know which frames are keepers. The work is getting through them fast enough that the knowing still matters.
The whole loop
Ingest, cull, caption, transmit.
Every step in one window. AI cullers touch the first and hand you back for the rest.
02Caption
Wire-desk metadata
Synchronised XMP and legacy IPTC-IIM, patched in place — so what Lightroom wrote stays written.
03Transmit
Out before you leave
Resize, rename, then straight to your desk over FTP, FTPS or SFTP. Passwords in the keychain.
Plus non-destructive crop, capture-time sync across bodies, GPS with offline geocoding, batch rename and folder watching.
Ingest
The card is read once. Both copies are byte-verified.
Primary and backup in one pass, each frame SHA-256 checked against the source before it counts as done. Not a file size. The actual bytes.
When the ingest says it’s finished, it’s safe to format the card. That is the entire point.
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Formats
17 RAW formats. We name the cameras.
Including the bodies that embed no preview at all — Hasselblad, Phase One, the Leica M8 — which we rescue by rendering from the RAW itself.
- Apple iPhone
- Canon EOS 40D
- Canon EOS R6
- Canon PowerShot (CHDK firmware)
- DJI
- Fujifilm X-T5
- Hasselblad CFV
- Kodak DCS pro bodies (circa 2001)
- Kodak EasyShare P712
- Leica M8
- Nikon Coolpix P7000
- Nikon Z5II
- and more
Plainly
What Lamplit isn’t
The longer version — seven reasons to use something else, each naming a specific tool — is on who it isn’t for.
No AI picks
Nothing ranks your frames or suggests a select.
No editing
Crop and straighten only. Never written into your original.
No catalogue
It opens the folders already on your disk.
No Adobe tax
Not a plugin. Doesn’t need Creative Cloud.
Who it’s for
Photographers with a deadline.
Weddings and events
Eight thousand frames from a Saturday, due Monday. Tabs and sessions survive a restart.
Sports and news
The design centre. Built for the desk deadline, with the dual-write a wire service expects.
Portrait and studio
School days and league nights. Batch rename, capture-time sync across bodies, filters that find one kid.
Get early access — the beta’s warm.
Small waves, so every report gets a real answer.
The signup form isn’t connected yet — we’d rather show you a dead button than quietly drop your address. It goes live with the first beta wave.
macOS 10.15 or newer — universal (Apple silicon and Intel) · Windows 10 or newer — x64 and ARM64