The iPhone guys at work have been talking about a retro camera app for their phones, so I’ve decided to look at what’s available for the Android platform.

The second one I’ve checked out is Fx Camera


FxCamera enables you to take a picture with various effects,

• ToyCam (number of colour mode and vignetting settings available with randomizer)
  
• Polandroid (number of colour mode and film type settings available)
  
• Fisheye
• SymmetriCam
• Warhol
• Normal

It works quite well for the ToyCam and Polandroid but the other three modes are more of a novelty than something you’d use all the time. Downside it has a maximum picture resolution of 960 by 640 pixels. It is 1524kb in size and can be moved to the SD card.

Toy Cam Examples




Polandroid Examples



SymmetriCam Example


Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

The iPhone guys at work have been talking about a retro camera app for their phones, so I’ve decided to look at what’s available for the Android platform.

The first one I’ve checked out is Retro Camera


The free ad supported version gives you five retro camera types to play with, see example shots below. The application is a fairly chunky 6179 kb but can be moved to the SD card. It has a novel interface which replicates the retro camera but this reduces the viewfinder size which can be a problem.







Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

Note: 2 of this post’s 7 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published.

Some cool video cameras which are muscling in on the stills market. I'm a sucker for multi function devices, why carry a stills & video camera. Now they just have to integrate a MP4 player and cell phone into it. Watch this space.......

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Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery