New App: Shoot Retro looking video on your iPhone with 8mm Vintage Camera

"Shoot old-fashioned 8mm films in real time"

App Store Description: 8mm Vintage Camera brings your iPhone and iPod Touch back in time to capture the beauty and magic of old school vintage movies. By mixing and matching films and lenses, you can recreate the atmosphere of those bygone eras with 25 timeless retro looks. Dust & scratches, retro colors, flickering, light leaks, frame jitters - all can be instantly added with the swapping of a finger.

Camera Features:

• Viewfinder: Total live view of the efffects. What you see in the viewfinder is what you record.
• Lenses: 5 lenses bundled - Clear, Flickering Frame, Spotlight, Light Leak and Color Fringing.
• Films: 5 grainy, discolored, dusted and aged films from different eras - 1920, 70s, Sakura, XPro, Siena
• Jitter Button: Add random up and down displacement of frames to imitate real 8mm projectors

Other Features:

• Swap lenses and films at any time
• Trigger frame jitter during recording
• Turn on/off flash on supported devices
• Switch between front and back cameras on supported devices
• Tap to focus and adjust exposure
• Export options: Save to Camera Roll, email, or share on YouTube
• Transfer movies quickly to computer via iTunes File Sharing

NOTE: Compatible devices: iPhone (3GS/4) and iPod Touch (4th Gen), iOS 4.1 or later

App Store Link: Pocketbooth; Price: £1.19/$1.99/€1.59

Comments

[positivepauly]

Whoah - that's Tacoma!
What a cool video app!

[James]

This app is INCREDIBLE! If there was a a little bit more resolution I would be doing backlips. However, that might interfere with real-time effects.

This looks like the real deal. Analog heaven.

[Sonny]

Video shot with this is at 480 x 360. Cool effects! (iPhone 4 HD video is at 1280 x 720)

[Geoff white]

Which is better, 8mm vintage camera or cinemafxv?

[KC]

Ooooh, I've been waiting for something like this for a LONG time. This looks like it can be as interesting as iRetroscope. All of a sudden, I don't feel bad for deciding not to buy a Digi Hari!

[Cilo]

@Geoff cinemafx will give you HD output at the expense of rendering time, 8mm cam is realtime rendering but also outputs at low resolution. So decide what your priorities are.

[Geoff white]

Thanks for the reply Cilo, I really like the look of the example trailer for 8mm but resolution is a big thing.

[Cilo]

@Geoff people have been whining for awhile about the rendering time in Cinemafx, often having insane expectations from $2 apps ( Cinemafx is amazing btw, as is all Nexvio apps) so I'm assuming this 8mm cam is the answer to that complaint. Hopefully they can figure out a way to input an HD option for 8mm cam, not sure it'll be soon though comparing to those slow shutter apps that also do realtime effects at the cost of resolution.

[Paul Miller]

@Geoff I agree with you but sadly the whole iPhonography "industry" seems to be heading down the road of "how absolutely crappy can we make our photos/videos?" in the name of nostalgic "art".

In this era of *phones* that can shoot "HD" (personally for me it doesn't hit "HD" until 1080p) why ANYONE would say "you know, 480 x 360 is ok - see, my video looks like it was shot 30 years ago and then thrown in a garbage dump - cool!" is beyond me. I don't get it.

(rant off - Happy Holidays everyone!)

[Mark]

Good to know it output in lower res. Thanks for that. Like my photos, I prefer a high resolution original to keep safe. I'll stick with their other fine apps and give this one a pass for now.

[rfbarr]

I can almost smell the Tacoma aroma from here.

[piet]

Nogstalgia and photography,
who could have pictured them together?
I think they could be together on a familyphoto.

[@padrag]

I absolutely loved this app. It allowed me to make a really fun video of my christmas holidays that the whole family have enjoyed.

I little more res would be nice but we all watched it back on my macbook with no complaints.
please have a look at the results:

http://bit.ly/hu57uR

[Len]

Open question:

Is this like a "hipstamatic" video app?

From what I've gotten, you cannot import videos from your roll.

Cheers,
Len

[Glyn Evans]

@Len, I guess this is a Hipstamatic like video app, in that it gives you that retro look and feel, and yes, you are correct, you can't import existing video in to this app, just shoot with it.