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iPhone photo app all your artsy photo

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Pictured: Color Services' lobby. Image: Synthetic

You’re likely familiar with Hipstamatic. It is the $2 iPhone photo app all your artsy photog friends were on before Instagram rose to fame. And while both apps provide filters to add artistic flair to your otherwise ho-hum smartphone photos, Hipstamatic attempts to be more analog about it — which, of course, is quite the anachronism in today’s digital age.

Hipstamatic, which launched in December 2009, deconstructs the photo experience so your iPhone feels more like your parents’ camera. With a variety of digital lenses, films and flashes, you can experiment with different styles and learn about the effects each element adds. And like your parents’ camera, the photos you take are meant to be developed.

But it’s not as simple as going to your local CVS. Lucas Buick and Ryan Dorshorst, co-founders of Synthetic, Hipstamatic’s parent company, realized most photo labs couldn’t accurately reproduce prints taken with the app, in particular matching color and saturation while handling high volume. After some searching, they arrived at Santa Barbara-based Color Services, which conveniently enough had a staff of Hipstamatic fans.

To reproduce that signature retro Hipstamatic look, the two companies worked together to create a custom printing process in June 2010, a system that includes developing on archival paper. Synthetic created a backend system to help the lab collect photos from users’ smartphones, a move that allows Color Services to scale alongside the app’s user base. As Hipstamatic launches new paks — paid and free in-app add-ons which can include a combination of lenses, films and flashes —  the backend system ensures Color Services can continue reproducing colors with accuracy.

Below is a peek of the lab, (taken with Hipstamatic, of course).

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hipstamatic color services photo lab

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hipstamatic color services photo lab

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hipstamatic color services photo lab

Image: Synthetic

hipstamatic color services photo lab

Image: Synthetic

hipstamatic color services photo lab

Image: Synthetic

hipstamatic color services photo lab

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iPhone Apps that will make you look like a pro

by Karissa Bell, Macworld.com

Because of its on-the-go convenience and high definition camera, more professionals are turning to the iPhone 4 and 4S when it comes to shooting photos and video. But while there are dozens of powerful still camera apps to help give you manual control while shooting photos with your iPhone, there are very few that do the same for video and do it well.

Cinegenix's Filmic Pro is an outstanding video app because it takes advantage of all of the benefits of the iPhone's video camera while giving filmmakers more control in a feature-rich video app designed with professionals in mind. The app aims to give you as much manual control over your iPhone's video shooting capabilities as possible in order to create a similar experience to using professional grade equipment.

Three different shooting modes—Full Frame, Single Reticle, and Double Reticle—allow you to control the exposure and focus in different ways. (The reticles in this app are the focus and exposure circles.) Full Frame Mode is the simplest; it sets the focus and exposure based on information from the entire frame. Single Reticle Mode sets the exposure and focus through a reticle that is fixed in the center of the frame. Double Reticle Mode affords you the most control over the composition of your shot—in Double Reticle Mode you get two separate reticles that you can move around the frame to set focus and exposure separately.


In the Mode: Different shooting modes allow you to control the focus and exposure of your shots.

In the app you’ll see four buttons on the bottom of the screen. These buttons lock and unlock controls for focus, exposure, white balance, and torch (flash). Once you have the focus and exposure settings you want, you can lock in those settings with the touch of a button.

Other advanced features give you even more control of your video. You can set frames rates between 1-25 frames per second (24 is the American standard for film production and 25, the European) and 30. The ability to select different frame rates is important, because you can choose the optimal settings for your video depending on what you’re shooting. You can also choose from four different resolutions and corresponding bitrates. Features such as color bars and a customizable slate will help you maintain the professional quality of your video once you get to the editing room.

Filmic Pro also takes into account the growing trend of mounting DSLR lenses onto iPhones. A “35mm image flip” option ensures that this app will work for people who want to use it with a 35mm lens—for instance, if you’re using your iPhone 4 or 4S with an OWLE Bubo.


In Control: Advanced features give you control over almost every aspect of your video.

Once you have recorded your video, you can upload it to YouTube, Vimeo, DropBox, Tumblr, Facebook, and FTP servers. You can also choose to save videos straight to your device’s camera roll or to your Filmic library.

Not a pro filmmaker? Don’t be intimidated. Despite the app’s complex array of features, it has an easy-to-use interface that ensures even amateurs will be able to use Filmic Pro. There are also helpful tools included in the app that will help amateurs and pros alike, including a three-by-three grid overlay, framing guide overlays in four different aspect ratios, and an audio meter.

The $4 app is compatible with the iPhone 3GS, 4, and 4s as well as the iPad 2 and the fourth generation iPod touch running iOS 4.1 or later. (Only the iPhone 4 and 4S offer certain functions, such as adjustable focus, torch, and 1080p resolution, and the app isn’t optimized to run natively on the iPad 2.)

Cinegenix also makes a free version of the app, Filmic+, which is a more limited version of the Pro app. You can get more features, such as variable frame rates and different shooting modes, via in-app purchases.

[Karissa Bell is a Macworld editorial intern. Follow her on Twitter.]

iPhone Video Camera Apps for Pro

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