Some Background
If you haven’t heard of not boring, they are worth looking into, I have spent a long time experimenting with their apps, for a while I used their weather app, and I messed with their calculator app, too.
Ultimately those sort of felt like toys to me— fun, but not really capable of replacing the tools I use regularly. Plus, to be honest I almost never need a calculator due to my immense genius brain.
The camera app
Unlike their other apps, I think this camera app is truly spectacular, it just released a few days ago and already I am obsessed. Now, I have historically been prone to silly obsessions that only last a few days, but I think this is the real deal. It has a certain tactile feeling thats hard to describe, but isn’t so overdone to feel like a toy.
The selection of LUTs is a lot of fun and you can use the app easily from the lockscreen, making it a simple drop in replacement for the main camera app most of the time.
Here are some photos with the “Wes” lut, which gives stuff a colorful look:
I find that focusing and composing shots in this camera is a lot of fun, and like the grainy non-ai looking output. It feels nostalgic but still high quality in a way that very few cameras do, similar to Halide’s Process Zero.
I look forward to taking more shots with this camera, and hope you check it out if you think it’s cool. In the meantime here are a couple more photos.
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