Conduct every camera
through totality.
A native macOS app that automates multiple cameras from contact-relative scripts — diamond ring, corona brackets, earthshine — firing to the millisecond, with spoken cues so you never look at a screen. Built for the one shot you get.
Join the beta waitlist
Free for the 2026 eclipse. Be first to test it with your rig.
What it does
Multi-camera
Run your whole rig at once. Each body is identified by serial and labeled — two identical cameras stay straight.
Contact-relative scripts
Times are relative to C1/C2/MAX/C3/C4 (and eclipse magnitude). Relocate 1,500 miles and your script just works.
Spoken cues
“Remove filters,” countdowns, “totality” — called aloud at the right instant. Eyes on the sky, not the laptop.
Simulate & rehearse
Scrub the whole eclipse, or rehearse the live wall-clock countdown — so you trust it before the one shot.
Real shutter control
Direct, fast camera control with confirmed capture and live drop-detection. Not a slow tethering layer.
Scripts — by hand or AI
Hand-write contact-relative scripts (or import the .txt sequences you already use from other eclipse software), or chat with an AI assistant that builds your capture sequence for you. AI generation coming soon.
Shot with the same approach
About
Umbra is built by Steven Madow — a NASA-credentialed launch photographer and official LUMIX creator who specializes in large-scale multi-camera automation. He photographed NASA’s Artemis II launch with 14 Panasonic LUMIX cameras across seven pad positions (featured by PetaPixel and Fstoppers).
He’s shot total, annular, and partial solar eclipses and many lunar eclipses — and built Umbra as the tool he wished he had: automation that fires every camera flawlessly so he can put the remote down and actually watch totality.
Steven shoots LUMIX exclusively, so Umbra was built first and foremost for deep, native LUMIX control. It’s designed to grow — with community help it can expand to every other brand, built on open-source camera-control libraries.