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”
I shot the first camera last night while trying my hand at making tomato khatta. (It would’ve been yum, if the fish had been any good.) Continue reading “Hipstamatic DSPO Review: Camera 1”
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? 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 filters, share 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”
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.
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. 
Both 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”
I’m not sure if the butterfly house is part of the Discovery Gardens or merely adjacent to them, but several companies have written indexes and algorithms to search this fancy Internet thing, and seeing as I’m a professional researcher, I guess I can go find out… Continue reading “Texas Discovery Gardens – the whole story”
