Probably there will be many people opposed to the Toy Room (including my dad) because of their "dubious" quality that often is considered art. We would have to say about many things, such as their ingestibilità level of image quality, lenti plasticose, infiltrazioni di luce ed altri mille difetti. Io sono uno di quelli che giudica questi difetti un affascinante pregio, dato il mix di tecnica, casualità e fortuna che servono per "controbilanciare" il "difetto" della toy camera e tramutarlo in un arma di originalità. Prendete tutto questo e trasportatelo su un telefono cellulare. Ora, se siete abbastanza nauseati potete anche fermarvi qui e non leggere oltre, tantomeno guardare le foto. Se come me pensate che il telefono cellulare è lo strumento che contraddistingue la nostra generazione e come me sentite che è probabilmente il mezzo di espressione più contemporaneo attualmente in uso, vale la pena cercare di esprimere il proprio punto di vista (perchè questo blog stesso is only an opinion) by a camera mounted on a toy phone.
Lo-Fi is the name of the style used by the toy-room, it would be Low Fidelity, is the imperfection mentioned earlier that has been faithfully recreated by the students of "Synthetic" Application for I-Phone available on AppStore, (there I put the link because the application fee and no one pays me to advertise it, so if you're interested, cercatevela).
What does this application? Unlike many other photo-app available for free on the history of "apple", Hipstamatic can not take the picture with the Canon camera phone and then apply a filter lomo, the application plays directly into the body of the toy room with a choice, change (and buy!) lenses, films and flashs. After taking a photo with the preferred setting, will be processed directly by telephone according to the equations given by our stylistic choices, and only then will we see the picture taken. In short: One photo, one setup, one can choose the lens and the film just to impress the right moment. I assure you that a lot of satisfaction.
The choice of this program was not only dictated by the quality, what else reached for the talented developers, but the story behind the original Hipstamatic is nothing short of moving. In short, inspired by the famous "Kodak" instantmatic, toy camera industry leader in the 60s, and Bruce Winston Dorbowski, two brothers of Wisconsin fans of photography, invented a camera full of plastic, both body and lens. In 18 Days gave birth to their first prototype called Hipstamatic that saw some success coming to be sold in 157 copies. That was in 1982, unfortunately, two years after a senseless tragedy happened, that the two brothers died hit by a drunk driver, so for their dreams and their project was just a sad memory in the hands of his older brother Richard, who shall tells the story 25 years later, the two creators of the Synthetic (Incorporated in iPhone Apps) which proposed to bring the project on the digital image Hipstamatic through an iPhone application. The rest is history.
If you would download it if you do not care forget it and your life will not change anything.
These images are clippings of my daily life here in Tokyo.
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Finally add the recently released report on the New York Times photographer Damon Winter War, reports and made totally with Hipstamatic Iphone 4g
http://lens .blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/finding-the-right-tool-to-tell-a-war-story /
