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. …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
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 filters, share the pictures from a couple of Cameras, share a fun extra, and wrap up with my thoughts on a couple …
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 …
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 …
Texas Discovery Gardens – the whole story
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…
Texas Discovery Gardens – Bokehmatic!
Thanks to a Groupon, Hana and I found ourselves at the Texas Discovery Gardens over in Fair Park a couple of weeks ago. The weather was beautiful. I shot a roll of film that I’ll share at some point, and otherwise rocked Hipstamatic—my old standby—on the iPhone 5. I’m going to stretch the posts out …
Hipstamatic D-Series: best of the best
And this is the best of the best, I think. So spooky. So very, very spooky. Of course, I only got 289 shots with it, and most of those were just shooting whatever to fill up test rolls.
