Create Great iPhone Photos

Chapter 5. The Retro Look

I have a bunch of junky old cameras inside my iPhone, and I love every one of them. Consider this one of the curious by-products of technological progress. Even though we love our techie gadgets and their shiny innovations, we yearn for the outdated, glitch-prone tools of yesteryear: Typewriters and their smudgy ribbons. Turntables with their clicks and pops. The vintage cameras, obsolete photographic films, and darkroom processes from a time when either you dropped your skinny cartridge of 110 film in a mailer and hoped for the best or you experimented with a do-it-yourself darkroom in a closet. The results were often mixed, with plenty of chances for botched results (messed-up processing from the dude at the Fotomat, ...