Monday
Aug092010
App Update: Plastiq Camera - Creative camera application for the iPhone
Monday, August 9, 2010 at 11:15PM | Glyn Evans 
Embrace your plastic lens and get creative with the beautiful imperfections of Plastiq Camera!
Plastiq Camera is another one of those popular toy camera apps, and it has just been updated to support iOS 4 and the iPhone 4.
So what's new?
- Support for multitasking on iPhone 4, darkroom will continue developing even if you press the home button
- Recently developed optimized for speed
- Up to 20 recently developed
- iOS4 specific tweaks and bugfixes
- Updated icon
Reader Comments (7)
Any good? Compared to Plastic Bullet?
@Jarle, it's not an app I personally like, but then I don't rate Plastic Bullet that high either.
@ Jarle Aasland & @Glyn Evans: That's funny, Glyn, because I like Plastic Bullet and Plastiq :D However, Jarle, I don't think it's fair to compare the two because they do what they do so differently. With Plastiq you can make choices similar to Miss Kiwi's apps, the Vignetting/Framing, the output size of the image, and the Tones/Cross-Processing used. Some of the effects even allow a gradient of intensity to be applied. There are no options, except for output resolution, with Plastic Bullet. Plastiq will allow the user to import images into the "Darkroom" from the Camera Roll, so that's nice. I don't use it often, but I do like the app (and that applies to both of them, ha)!
I can't say I'm that keen on Plastiq Camera either. Quite pricey for a limited amount of filters, the majority of which are average to awful. It's a shame because two or three of the filters are really nice.
If they ditched some of the tackier effects, replaced them with a few more good ones and dropped the price to 59p, it'd be well worth checking out. Otherwise don't bother.
I don't get all these retro/plastic/cheap/toy camera apps. Who really wants to make their pictures look even more like crap? There are apps out there that will help make your pictures look GOOD - buy those instead!
The films and lenses are good and some are adjustable.
You can achieve nice effects with this app and in my opinion the price is reasonable for the features provided.
Decided to try it myself. So far, I'm disappointed. Don't like the effects (but I admit I haven't tried all of them).