Nashville comes to Hipstamatic this November

Synthetic have just made available the limited edition Miranda Lambert inspired Nashville HipstaPak via the Hipstamatic in app HipstaMart. Created in a collaboration with Rock photographer James Minchin III, this new HipstaPak consists of a new "charcoal mellowed" James M Lens and "rough around the edges" Rock BW-11 film. Priced at £0.69/$0.99/€0.79, this new HipstaPak looks very nice, and will please many Hipsta fans who may have found the last few HipstaPak's a little lacklustre.

The Nashville HipstaPak is available now via the Hipstamatic in app HipstaMart.

Comments

[Max Berkowitz]

Hmm...



Strangely, I don't give a shit anymore.

[Kent Kangley]

The James M lens looks to me like a Libatique 73 but with about half the gold tones. The Rock BW-11 film is very grainy. I think I can find uses for both of them, unlike the Susie lens which, despite my best efforts, I simply cannot find a use for.

[Allan Mullan]

I've never been one for square format photos as I worry that one day I may want to print my photos or use them as wallpapers (do the latter quite a bit) - but almost brought hipsta as it has some cool filters but DAMN, to get the base pack and then all the in-app puchases is getting near the £10 mark - for a camera... really?

Can the hipsta user' out there really say that it's worth it and also what is the appeal of the square format? Be nice to get some opinions :)

[Phil Harris]

Wow! It's easy. If you like square pictures and you like the 'Hipsta product' then go for it. If not, then don't. I like it. Thanks Hipstamatic.

[Suzé]

It's just...okay. This is the last Hipsta pak I purchase. I did not purchase the two prior to Nashville as they looked quite ho-hum. This expensive "camera" is quite the cash cow for Synthetic. They "pair" up with someone well-known, name drop to sell the kit, and laugh all the way to the bank for their uncreativeness.
Hipstamatic was a lot of fun in the beginning. Now it's boring. I can pick out as most of you can as well, a hipsta photo at 10 yards away. Some of the lens/films are just lame and very repetitive.
Allan, for old film photographers (ahem, like myself), I did my shooting with my beloved red Hassy and a much- loved Yashicamat 124-G. These cameras as well as many medium format cameras, shoot 120 square film, 6cm x 6cm. I have a very difficult time thinking rectangularly, I always think and compose in the square.
I do like the 6x6 app a lot and that is on my front page. Many camera apps crop to the square, then applying effects and borders, ahhh, who needs Hipstamatic anymore??
I'm not knocking Hipsta lovers but the developers have a stale product, IMO. I wish they would stop producing crap lenses and films.
The app that I truly enjoyed, Swankolab, which they have never updated but took A LOT of people's money for the "lifetime" updates, is at least creative. I really hate the feeling of being duped, but I've only myself to blame for buying Nashville. Last time I buy into hype, I'm old enough to know better. If there was a Like button, I'd like Max's comment. Succinctly put.

[Charles Maclauchlan]

frustratingly Hipsta (once my favorite) is worthless on the 4S. Double frustrating to me is that I think they're just too important to actually speak with their customers. Booooo!

[Rob]

My main camera is a DSLR. The reason I'm such a fan of Hipstamatic is that it's about as far away from being a DSLR as I can get with my iPhone while still producing what I consider to be excellent results. In other words, when I'm shooting with my iPhone, I often find myself wishing I had my DSLR. But when I'm shooting specifically with Hipstamatic, I don't feel that way. I suspect it's because Hipstamatic is more limiting - it's a square with a viewfinder that doesn't even fill up the screen (unless you double click to expand it) - and because Hipstamatic feels more like a toy camera.

I often check out other toy camera apps, but most have clunky user interfaces, and that's a turn off. Cameramatic, for example. It looks great, but I hate the UI.

I've been purchasing Hipstapaks since the beginning, but lately, they've been pretty bad. The Susie lens, for example. I love the hue it gives pics, but good lord is it washed out to the point of being worthless. It's funny... when they release something good, it's phenomenal. Dreamcanvas film or the Tejas lens, for example. But when they release a dud, it's really a dud.

It is true that there are a billion Hipstamatic photos out there that are pretty much crap. That's always going to happen though, and I don't hold that against Hipstamatic. I'm sure we've all seen people take some absolutely awful photos with cameras that cost thousands. In the end, it's the photographer, not the camera.

I still enjoy Hipstamatic very much, but I am losing faith in their ability to produce quality add-ons.

[mell]

They lost me at Susie.
(I wish they would win me back though.)

BTW bring back Tejas Lens, now that one is worth paying for :)

[Max Berkowitz]

Please win me back Hipsta.


Oh, and stop being Putz's and just speed it up, no one gives a shit to wait minutes for their images to be "developed" etc...

[Allan Mullan]

Thanks @Suzé for the explanation about what the rage is about, very insightful :)

I think I may give Hipsta a miss, developers that don't respect how they got their new cars or houses and insist on developing rubbish to keep the money rolling in don't sit well with me - if the in-app purchases are good then I don't mind but if they're just there for the sake of £££, meh! Plus it'd be yet another toy camera in my arsenal, think I'll stick to working on improving my composition more.

Thanks everyone for your comments thus far, you're all quite helpful even to someone that feels like he's been in this community for a very long time.

[Mr Tmney]

@ Allan

If you don't have PictureShow or FusionCam apps you might like those.

PictureShow has tons of great filters, effects & tweaks with any sized image editing.
FusionCam is a square format app with 3 filter choices, but it's a double/multiple exposure app which is so much fun. As well if you want, you can select a different filter effect per shot you blend or just take 1 shot.

[Hipsta]

I bought it as i am hipsta fun, but this and last are not so good. you can get such a effects using the older lens or film which you have. I hope they will put something new or special

[Geoff]

This app is costing so much money,I haven't bought the last few packs cause they don't seem to do to much in the example shots and I'm not buying any more,starting to get over it now

[Digital Artist]

What ever happened to SwankoLab updates???

"Stu will add more stuff to the subscription with each update (included free for all subscribers)"

Looks like Stu got laid off in the company restructuring move?

Great app... promise of thing to come only to never see them.

Anyone have a clue what this app is doing or shall it just be placed on the back row of apps never to be updated again.

[Colin]

Everyone who has commented so far needs to get a grip. Hipstamatic is far and away the best iPhone camera app to be developed. It's hard to hit it out of the park every time. Stop bitching about 99 cents. To create something beautiful and original in this world is hard to do.

[Joel Madison]

I don't know, Max sort of sums it up for me in the first comment. All the add ons of late seem to be so very very close to what there already is.

My three cents.

[Richard G]

I'm pretty much with Colin on the "get a grip" notion.

Okay, yeah, Susie was a waste of time. An entire ninety-nine cents down the drain. Life as we know it is over.

But looking back just a couple of weeks to the previous hipta product ... has anybody actually TRIED the Lucas lens as it was designed to be used, with the the Jolly Rainbo flash? I mean Jesus H Christ, this is an ambitious thing: trying to capture decent indoor images in low light with the built-in iPhone flash, without making the subject look like an experiment in innovative radiation therapy. Just TRY the damn thing. It's not perfect or foolproof, but it beats every alternative I'm personally aware of, including the popular Camera+ "Clarity" filter, and it does so without adding a thousand decibels of noise to the resulting image.

And if you hate it, how awful for you. Another £0,79 down the crapper. Alert the fucking media.

There are, at a rough estimate, 7.43 gazillion "retro" photo apps that do basically the same thing. Most of them cost a buck or two. There is the built-in Camera app that does a perfectly creditable job for nothing. There is Camera+ which gives you a lot of control over both the capture and the final image and costs what, two dollars? So if you're living on a subsistence level (while inexplicably owning the best cell phone in the world) then there are ways to conserve your hard-won gyro.

Then there is Hipstamatic, which is very much its own thing, and which -- if you insist on buying every single add-on without bothering to check obscure web sites like, say, the little-known Flickr.com to determine what a new lens or film is good for, if anything -- will positively bankrupt you to the tune of "getting on £10", which is surely the saddest economic news of the week.

Some of these lenses and films are crap. Some are brilliant. All are -- for better or worse -- distinctive. No one is forcing you to buy any of them. Truly, get a grip. Go have a pint and tell us, please, if it was worth more than, say, Melodie + Claunch 72, or whatever it was that came with the Levi's pak. Because it surely cost more.

[Andre Clemente]

Amen, Richard.

[Max Berkowitz]

Gotta grip...






Uh, now what?

[Mr Tmney]

I would contribute to this, but I don't give a flying piss about anything Hipstamatic!
They sucked us dry & many are sucking them back passionately... While I say if I don't see a damn SwankoLab update I'm about to shove a boot up too asses!