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Scout Camera for the iPhone where taking the photo is the fun

Photography with the iPhone for most people is about editing the photo afterwards. Take photos, then try to make them fit in a Instagram square or experiment with filters to enhance the theme. There are a couple camera apps I have covered before that let you see how the photo will appear with a filter added prior to taking the picture. Usually, these apps have a ton of features that need to be set, taking away from the fun of snapping a quick shot.

The folks that developed Scout Camera seem to have the fun of photography in mind, knowing that a iPhone taken photo will need to fit into a world outside of the iPhone. It is easier to know what things will fit together later when limits are thought of when snapping the actual photo.

Launching the app offers a the ability to start shooting right away. Tap the screen to adjust the camera exposure reference point. Scout Camera places all of the feature ‘on/off’ options along the bottom: apps photo storage, flash control, shutter, filters and cropped view.

Second from the right in the lower area is the Filters built into Scout Camera. Sweep left/right to view the option, tapping one will change the camera viewer to show how the picture will appear if taken. A quick tool for taking retro or black and white photos.

Choosing the ‘crop’ button on the lower right corner will frame the photo being taken within the limits of the crop. 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 and 1:1 are supported. No concerns later when a crop may cut off part of the picture’s story. Scout Camera outputs in full resolution, for example the 1:1 is 2448 x 2448. After the photo is taken, it is saved to the app’s internal viewer with location and notes included. Export to the iPhone photo library, Open With… for editing in other apps, Instagram, email, Facebook and Twitter are all options.

iPhone and Racing Fans! Special edition magazine, Le Mans in Instagram

If your reading this, you most likely take photos with your iPhone. You may even share your photos with friends on Instagram.

Are you a auto racing fan? Know about the 24 hours of Le Mans? Over 24 hours, a lot can happen on and off the race track. Especially in the case of this particular race since there is a wide variety of cars from the top automotive brands around the world. Names you know like Audi, Peugeot, Nissan, Porsche, Mazda and Ferrari. Each trying to solve the problem of being in the lead at the end of the 24 hours. There are many unique things to see everywhere. Like many major events, capturing the atmosphere in photographs to share can be difficult.

L’endurance Magazine took the challenge on and have released a special electronic issue of photographs from the 2012 Le Mans event, all shot using an iPhone and the Instagram app. It is very impressive! Download your free copy directly from their site: lendurance.co.uk

Photographs by: Dan Bathie

Hipstamatic Camera for iPhone updated – it’s all about sharing, even directly to Instagram!

The Hipstamatic retro camera app was updated today… not with new lenses or new retro film, rather a whole new image interface that includes more ways of sharing your snapshots.

Normally, you snap a photo, wait a while, go the photo area, tap an image and are taken to a spot in Hipstamatic with a small view of the image and a scrolling list on the right that has lens/film info and share with a couple services.

Now, the area of your photos is the same, then everything after that has changed. Choose a image to look at it. or choose the ‘Share’ button in the upper right corner for the ability to select multiple images.

In the ‘share’ area of Hipstamatic, after you select the images you wish to take an action on, then use the buttons along the bottom to process. Share through a social service, attache to an email, order prints to be sent to you, add to another customized photo area or delete.

Selecting one or many, then Share take you to a new screen for entering text and selecting what social service you which to send your Hipstamatic camera photo(s) to. Notice that Instagram is one of the options now. There is a rumor that this is due to a special deal between the two companies, I have not been able to confirm yet. Enter your text, choose your service and hit the ‘Share’ button!

Instead of selecting the ‘share’ button, you can still tap on a single image in the Hipstamatic photo library. Like before the update, this takes you to a view of just the one image. Now though, it’s is a full screen image with the four options buttons around the outer edge. The buttons are ‘more info’ and Trash on the left. On the right is share (like above) and print using the Hipstamatic supported professional printing services. Swiping across the image will let you cycle through the images available in that library.

Now, when you tap the Hipstamatic more info button, it flips flips the image to show you the info about the camera settings that was used to take the photo. Same info as before but a lot more fun as it looks like an old camera shop film case sticker. It’s the little things…

Tapping the screen and not one of the buttons brings up a boarder expelling the camera set up that the picture was taken with. As well, the button to go back to the image library overview screen.