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 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”

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”

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… Continue reading “Texas Discovery Gardens – the whole story”

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 a bit on this, as I’ve done for awhile now. But to be honest, I’m feeling the need to do more contemporaneous shooting and posting, rather than shooting in spurts and then setting posts up to run weeks or months in advance.* Continue reading “Texas Discovery Gardens – Bokehmatic!”