Hipstamatic DSPO Review: Video Flipbooks!

DSPO lets you view, save, and share a video flipbook from your camera. Fun!

They might be nicer taken into Cinamatic and tortured a bit, but the DSPO leader and trailer detract from it a bit in my mind.

A dozen pictures in 7 seconds…

60+ pictures in 14 seconds… I wonder what it will do with a year’s worth. will it squeeze them all in to Cinamatic’s (and Instagram’s) 15 second time limit?

Allah and the friendly folks at Hipstamatic* know. Continue reading “Hipstamatic DSPO Review: Video Flipbooks!”

Hipstamatic DSPO Review: Camera 2 – a day in the life

I set this camera up while stuck in a traffic jam this morning. It was a brief traffic jam—they were opening the highway after having most of it closed for construction overnight—but still long enough to start up a new camera.

I shot a bunch on the way to work, a tiny bit at work, and a bunch on the way home. I then shot a few before and after my nap. Then the 12 hour timer was up, and *poof* Camera 2 was done! Continue reading “Hipstamatic DSPO Review: Camera 2 – a day in the life”

Hipstamatic DSPO Review: filter options

DSPO comes with 4 filters and 5 moods, and you can add on another 5 filters and the ability to draw on pictures (not yet tested) for 99¢.

Some of teh filters are pleasant, with interesting borders and color shifts; others are a bit overcooked for my taste, but might be useful in certain situations.

I employed the ‘Clean’ filter for virtually every image in both of the cameras I’ve shot so far, and I shot outside and inside, in the dark and in the light. But there’s probably some use for some of the filters (Vintage, Saturated I’m looking at you) somewhere, sometime. Continue reading “Hipstamatic DSPO Review: filter options”

Hipstamatic DSPO Review: initial thoughts & general usage

Hipstamatic DSPO? What’s that?

In short, it’s a new sharable, mock-disposable camera from Hipstamatic.

In this multi-part review, I first start and shoot a Camera, in screenshot form. Then, I comment on the filtersshare the pictures from a couple of Cameras, share a fun extra, and wrap up with my thoughts on a couple of problems I noticed.

If you like screenshots and want to read my initial thoughts, read on. If not, use the links above to check out whatever interests you. Continue reading “Hipstamatic DSPO Review: initial thoughts & general usage”

Hipstamatic D-Series Retropak

Is it mere coincidence?

Here on the blog, I spent much of last week reminiscing about the old D-Series, and today Synaptic releases 3 lenses and two films from the D-Series, and a new shareable disposable-type camera. (Life in LoFi wrote about the lenses & filters here; I’ll share my first roll from the new DSPO app later tonight or tomorrow.)

It must be mere coincidence, if there even is such a thing…

The D-Series lenses and films are available for free through Friday, so grab them while they’re hot.

Here’s the test picture from last week, as see through the new lenses and films. (I pulled shared the lenses and films with Oggl.)

It’s really great to have the BlacKeys 44 film back. I liked the camera of the same name, and I can see some definite possibilities in the Lite Film and the various lenses.

I’m thankful they left behind the Unicorn and other silly lenses and films. Some of those cameras (the 99¢ ones) were truly awful.

VSCO 00 play time

Visual Supply Company (VSCO) released a free pair of Lightroom presets today, featuring two film looks: Kodak Gold 100 and Kodak TRI-X.

The above is from some old negatives I found from many years ago (more about them tomorrow) that I processed with the Kodak Gold 100 Portrait preset.

And this one is the Kodak Tri-X (1) preset. VSCO 00 TRI-XBoth come with 16 versions, all slightly different. Quite a bit of fun, really, and maybe one day I’ll try with some contemporary digital images of recognizable things. Continue reading “VSCO 00 play time”