Seriously cool iPhone app created by Chase Jarvis:
'Best Camera' iPhone Application
Thursday, October 22, 2009
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'Best Camera' iPhone Application
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web · 807 weeks ago
Walter K · 807 weeks ago
I've been trying a bunch of the camera apps for fun. Playing with the iPhone camera reminds me of the SX-70, Diana, Holga, and all those other non-professional cameras that so many professionals loved. What's interesting about the apps made for the iPhone camera is how software designers have managed to provide complex features like panoramic stitching, soft focus filters, color, brightness, saturation adjustments; vignetting tools, time lapse, geo tagging – and now movie editing and uploading – all which can be accomplished all while driving down the highway with the camera in hand hand and a hot cup of coffee in another. OK, just kidding. But if you're used to doing some of these same things in photoshop, and then tried one of these apps you know what I mean.
What I don't like about BestCamera is cookie cutter filters. Tiffen FX does this too, but at least you can adjust the intensity of the filters once they've been applied. But do they let you adjust the warm/cool intensity at the same time? Nope.
Another app called Blurred Photo, lets you adjust the gaussian, motion, and median blur with a slider then let's you"clean" away the blurred effects locally with your finger. Brilliant! They have saturation, hue, lightness, adjustments, – but no contrast adjustment. Oops. Even worse, saturation has to be adjusted for the blurred areas and clean (sharp) areas separately. Huh?
TiltShiftGen, is one of the most fun to use. There is a lot of flexibility in making selective focus images and vignetting. Essentially turning into to a Holga type camera. No crop feature, as many of the other apps have. Oh well.
Still it's fun to see this apps popping up like mushrooms all over the place. Sooner or later someone's going to get it right, and you may even see some features migrate to full size cameras or editing software.
WK
Christopher Ryan · 806 weeks ago