Billy Brown’s “The Camera Collection” Now A Video By Antonio Vicentini

A little more than a year ago, artist Billy Brown published The Camera Collection, a collection of well thought well designed vintage camera icons.

It’s available as a Creative Commons Licence and you can even get the vector sources.

That’s how Antonio Vicentini got the material to make an animation based on Brown’s work. And it’s pretty neat, if like us you’re a fan of vintage cameras, you should like it.

the camera collection from antonio vicentini on Vimeo.

 

Update On iPhone/Android and Photo Related Projects On Kickstarter

Back in June we’ve published Interesting iPhones photo accessories from Kickstarter.com. It’s time to write an update! Kickstarter is full of good projects and ideas for accessories and softwares to go with your favorite smartphone or camera.

CloudFTP

First of, we never had a chance to talk about Cloud FTP. This wonderful little device has shipped a few days ago, we’re waiting for ours eagerly. You can now purchase one at Hypershop for around a hundred bucks.

Cloud FTP from Hypershop

Make ANY USB Storage Device Wireless! The easiest way to share any USB data with Apple iPad, iPhone, & the Cloud. Just connect and share with up to 3 iDevices at the same time. Compatibility: USB Mass Storage Compliant Devices (e.g. hard drive, flash drive), WiFi-enabled Devices (e.g. iPad, iPhone, Android)

Trigger Happy Camera Remote

We’ve been waiting for a long time for this device. It’s basically a cable allowing you to control a DSLR Camera with an iOS device. intervalometer, HDR shots beyond the good old 3 shots bracketing.. There’s a model for Canon and one for Nikon. We back this project already!

Timelapse+ another intervalometer

The Timelapse+ is first and foremost an intervalometer, or timer device, for automatically triggering SLR cameras. It is very powerful and flexible for doing time-lapse photography. Beyond that, it will have Low-Energy Bluetooth for connecting with accessories, including newer smartphones.

jaja :: Worlds First Pressure Sensitive Stylus for iPad

Pressure sensitive line drawing allows realistic sketching for artists, designers and casual sketchers. Contextual menu selection with the two clickable buttons gives functionality not normally available on an iPad or tablet - such as brush or tool selection, work just like you do with a Wacom stylus but for 1/10th the price, and portable!

We’ve backed this one too. It has a very clever way of communicating with the iPad : ultrasounds!

 

Other potentially interesting projects relative to photo and iPhone



 

Polaroid SC1630, Compact 16MP Camera with Android OS, the first SmartCamera

Is Lo-Mob going to be on Android? Yes. And the following is one of the reasons why.

Back in January 2012, at CES in Las Vegas, Polaroid unveiled what seems to be the first SmartCamera.

At Aestesis, we’ve thought about such cameras for a long time: A decent compact point and shoot, but freed from a crappy manufacturer OS, sporting something popular like iOS and Android. Of course, chances were that it would be Android.

We had this idea first when Sony finally released its NEX line. The press was kind of unanimous: the camera was great, in term of sensor, technology, picture quality, nut the OS was so bad it rendered the whole thing unbearable. I own a compact Sony camera with a touch screen and that’s true, the OS is horribly messy, dozens of icons everywhere, you’re searching for a particular mode for minutes and often fail to find it. Also, the pictures features proposed are way perfectible. Black and white is sadly not contrasted and FX’s are very poor and limited. It’s often the case on such cameras.

Sony NEX line, extremely good cameras with a disappointing OS

So we wanted the best of both worlds : a decent compact camera, from a popular manufacturer, with a decent lens and a good sensor (I mean way better than the optic and sensor of a smartphone), and a popular OS like Android, so you can get the benefit of all these apps, to treat and share your pictures. Because of course, it would be connected. WiFi is enough, 3G would be a plus.

And Polaroid unveiled the SC1630. We immediately regreted the name but this feeling was wiped by the very nice design and the very big potential of this device. And to say the truth we’re kind of happy it comes from such a legendary brand like Polaroid.

The first Smart Camera, by Polaroid

The Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera has a 800×480 3.2-inch display, and it features a whopping 16-megapixel camera capable of 3x optical zoom on a 36-108mm lens. When connected to Wi-Fi, users can instantly upload their images to social networking sites and will also even have access to the Android Market. It sports an aperture ranging from F3.1 to F5.6, an ISO of up to 3200, and can record 720p video with anti-shake support. It has a micro SD Slot, and a GPS for geotagging pictures and other navigation applications. Oh, it’s also a phone, and news sites already say it’s a bad one, but we honestly couldn’t care less about the phone feature (the first version to be released seems to be a sans-phone one).

In Polaroid’s own words:

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 10, 2012 - Polaroid today announced that capturing and sharing high-end digital images is now seamless with the Polaroid SC1630, an Android powered smart camera. The Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera features a high definition 16 megapixel camera with built in 3X optical zoom, touch screen display and Wi-Fi, making uploads to social networks as easy as the touch of a button. Merging the optics of a digital still and video camera with the limitless power of the Android platform, the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera evolves the process of clicking, editing, uploading and tagging to an instant experience on one device.

So yes, it’s going to be good pictures, and Facebook, Instagram… Lo-Mob of course! How motivating this thing is for us to come to the Android world!

Polaroid SC1630 should be available in a sans phone version at the beginning of April at a price around $299.

There’s not much to read about this pretty toy on the net. When we link to a photo related site, we like it to be good, so here is a link to dpreview.com:

Ici Bristol, by lo-mob user Charlotte Newcity

Charlotte is a girl from French Normandy who moved last year to Bristol, UK. Since then, she consistently posts pics taken with her iPhone and Lo-Mob on her Facebook Ici Bristol album. Colors, shapes, people, slices of everyday life make this album a nice collection and a thoughtful & fresh point of view of her new life. We thought the work and eye of this dedicated long time Lo-Mob user was worth sharing.

Enjoy the ride, and follow @CharlottNewcity on Twitter if you’re up for more.

 

Lo-Mob 1.x update for all iPhones with iOS 4.3 and above

Update 2012+03+13 : Lo-Mob 1.7 is now live in the AppStore, you can even update through 3G thanks to Apple new rules. 

Hi Lo-Mob 1.x users, we’ve updated the application for all users with iOS 4.3 and above.

  • UI refresh, refreshed icon as well
  • Retina UI and previews for iPhone 4 and 4S

It had been submitted to Apple and should hit the AppStore within 10 days or so.

Free Web Design Custom Papers (and a PSD template) for Ramki’s Noteshelf App

Disclaimer : we have no relationship with the developers or the companies of the applications and products mentionned in this post, nor with the vendors we link to.

Follow @vinchubang on Twitter to get more Noteshelf custom papers.

If you’re looking for a good notebook application for your iPad, you may want to consider trying these three :

We’ve finally chosen Noteshelf, it’s a gorgeous and very complete app. It combines all the advantages of the two others. It’s also the most expensive one but still, pretty much the same price as a good sandwich.

We’ve made web design custom papers for Noteshelf, for our own usage, and we would like to share it with Noteshelf users. you’ll find below 5 templates with various browser sizes and orientations. Each template comes with a 9 column grid system and no grid system. The archive also contains a .psd file to create your own custom papers. Keep in mind you won’t be able to draw past the guide at the bottom.

 

And if you want a good stylus, we recommend the Boxwave $8,00.

Our new application, Waves, is now available in the iTunes App Store!

We’ve just released our new application, Waves, in the Apple App Store. It’s for the moment available solely for iOS but will soon be released for Android devices as well.

Waves generates real time colorful and unique visuals based on ambient sound.
☀ SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE ☀ For the release of the application ☀ tell your friends! ☀
The app uses the mic of your iPhone or iPad to analyse ambient sound and produce unique visual patterns. It also works with the music you play on your device through the speakers.
The same app works for both iPhones and iPads. We recommend this app especially for iPhone 4 and 4S, iPad 1 and 2.
There are 6 different unique effect all based on different algorithms. Simply swipe from the top or the bottom to switch from an effect to another.
Waves can display full screen on your TV or projector using either an Apple TV and Airplay set to mirror mode, or both Apple iOS to HDMI or iOS to video cables.

Click here for a demo video! or Direct App Store link to purchase.

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Waves generates real time colorful and unique visuals based on ambient sound.

The app uses the mic of your iPhone or iPad to analyse ambient sound and produce unique visual patterns. It also works with the music you play on your device through the speakers.

The same app works for both iPhones and iPads. We recommend this app especially for iPhone 4 and 4S, iPad 1 and 2.

There are 6 different unique effects all based on different algorithms. Simply swipe from the top or the bottom to switch from an effect to another.

Waves can display full screen on your TV or projector using either an Apple TV and Airplay set to mirror mode, or both Apple iOS to HDMI or iOS to video cables.

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A little bit of history

Back in the early 90′s, we were quite productive as VJay’s in the techno rave scene. At this time we had released the first Aestesis software, for MS-DOS and Soundblaster 16 compatible sound boards. A few years later, Aestesis went to Windows 95 and soon after we released our big hit Elektronika. Elektronika still exists and is now a free software.

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We wanted to bring this spirit and the visual effects we created at the time to our modern portable devices. iPhones and iPads, even iPods Touch now sport very decent graphic processors, allowing Waves, the descendent of Aestesis, to run at a previously unseen 60 frames per second on iPhone 4 and 4s and iPads.

We hope you’ll enjoy this application, take the time to experiment with your voice, ambient sound and a lot of different music styles. Let us know if you liked it!

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Thanks to www.infrabass.org for hosting these flyers for all this time :)

Oh and anyone being able to give us a link to a picture of either Renan or Vincent doing visuals in a free party get a promo code for the app, word!

  1. Click here to check the mini site we’ve made for the Application
  2. Direct App Store link to purchase the app

About the music track of the video : The music have been composed by Matias Muten from Ouzo Music. Big thank to Matias and people at Ouzo!

Lo-Mob user manual

For Lo-Mob users convenience, we’re publishing the in-app manual here as well.

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Lo-Mob version 1.6 has been submitted to Apple App Store

We have today sent the last version of Lo-Mob 1.x for approval to Apple. It’s now a matter of days before it hits the App Store.
Here is the list of what have been fixed or added :

  1. FIXED : a bug affecting certain iPhones 3 with firmware lower than 3.2.2 making the app to crash on start
  2. FIXED : an orientation problem, also resulting in a crop problem in some cases, affecting images published on services like Facebook
  3. ADDED : Export options
    1. Send to App : make a list of all the compatible image or file management or file sharing applications on your iPhone then pops up a list to chose from. Once an app chosen, the image is processed in Lo-Mob then it automatically switches to the chosen App and open the image in. During this process, the original file resolution is kept (Maximum).
    2. Send to Instagram : same as above, but targeted to Instagram specifically. Process a 600 px x 600 px (maximum Instagram pi size) then switch to Instagram App. Instagram is a free photo sharing app that you can download from the App Store.
  4. ADDED : Print. If you have an iPhone or iPad compatible printer, you can send pics to it.
  5. ADDED : copy to clipboard. Process the larger image file possible and copy it to the iPhone clipboard. It’s then ready to be pasted anywhere, an email for example, or a document.
  6. ADDED : a filter has been added, it’s a variation of the “Vintage Instant Reframed”, it’s called the “Vintage Instant Variation”. It’s slightly desaturated.

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Lo-Mob featured on Zunited and DPReview.com! Totes aws!

Great week! Most fabulous camera related website dpreview.com just launch a new section, Articles, and Lo-Mob for iPhone is featured in the first Article of the Software section! You can read the article here : Mobile imaging apps – an overview. Thanks to TheAppWhisperer for the article! I have to say, for a photographer like me, that’s pretty wicked cool to see our app on this website, still have hard time to believe it.

Also, Thank you to Zunited.com editors who picked Lo-Mob for Windows Phone for their homepage this week. A nice article to make Lo-Mob more popular among Windows Phone users. You can read it here : Windows Phone App Showcase: Lo-mob