Sunday, April 10, 2011

Camera Apps: Please right retro

Current smartphones have installed more than ordinary digital camera - and with the help of apps, the images may still before downloading aufhübschen. Because in contrast to the recordings old analog cameras, the megapixel chips deliver most sober and neutral pictures, which tolerate a little more contrast and color.

A number of apps help - they mimic the look of old cameras with plastic lenses, long-stored photo paper or special lenses. The results are reminiscent of the often technically less sophisticated images of Lomography, to images of Polaroid and Holga cameras. In addition to high contrast is mainly the vignette effect, to the corners decreasing brightness of the images.


Six popular Apps, three each for Apple's iPhone and Android, we've tried. Were used an iPhone 4 (5 megapixel camera) and a HTC Desire HD (8-megapixel camera). For iPhone, the most popular retro apps are available for the iPhone from Apple. Hipstamatic is one of the most sophisticated apps.

The basic version for 1.59 € provides you with a selection of filters, the selection of "objective" and "photographic film" to combine them and adjust. Additional filters can be purchased from the App. The edited photo can be published directly to Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr or e-mail. With social networks also binds Instagram.

The free app also shows pictures taken by friends in a survey and wants to be something like Twitter for pictures or a Facebook status message with a photograph. 14 Effects can be applied after the shooting - at Hipstamatic you have to be set in advance and then be surprised what comes closest to the analog photography.

Entirely on an image processing function is The Best Camera. Twelve compared quite subtle effects of the vignette to the color change can be reduced to just shot images or shots to apply from the archive. The results can be sent directly by e-mail and social networks. Similar Instagram also has The Best Camera own community for the exchange of images.

Android phones to smartphones with Google's Android operating system compete with dozens of apps like retro features to users. Many are free, some are trying to earn money through advertisements. Among the most popular applications include Retro Camera, which is strongly reminiscent of Hipstamatic.

Choose from different fantasy cameras - including "The Bärbel" and "Xolaroid 2000. Unfortunately, the results are overly pixelated. There is a lot more setting it not, the filter will be selected prior to photography and then applied directly. Which is also free, financed by advertising App FxCamera offers three basic modes: "ToyCam", "Polandroid" and "fisheye".

These in turn provide a variety of different filters. After photographing the image is immediately converted, further modifications of the filter is not possible. The calculation takes some time, unfortunately, so can not immediately be made the next shot. The results are neat - only the fisheye effect to all the pixels are clearly visible.

Easy to use and equipped with many functions, the App Vignette. The full version costs € 2.89, a base version is free. Preview images can be distributed directly from the app via social networks, the large versions are stored on the Android phone. The filters can be preset, but also subsequently change.

A random function returns also the element of surprise. Recommendation for the iPhone has been found in our short test, the free app Instagram as recommended: The 14 effects can be applied easily and deliver clean results. In contrast to the images distract Hipstamatic the image frame is not too much from the actual location from - and in contrast to The Best Camera operation of Instagram is easier and faster.

The included social network you have to use not so. Android provides for the nearly three-euro App Vignette easy-to-use and technically advanced filters. Retro Camera delivers strange pixelated images that are hardly useful and nerves with intrusive image frame. The free FxCamera is a viable alternative, the service a little more strenuous.

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