Hipstamatic

Some effects from Hipstamatic

The Brandenburg Gate as a hipstamatic recording

Hipstamatic is a photo - app to take pictures with retro generate -Effekten. The manufacturer Hipstamatic LLC (formerly Synthetic LLC ) sells the paid program only through Apple's App Store and Microsoft's Windows Phone Store .

The program, the surface of which is modeled on an analog photo camera, changes the photos by combining various software filters so that they look like analog photos from different eras. The filters are selected by combining various virtual lenses, films and flashes. The names used do not correspond to any real brand names, but are based on brand names such as Kodak. After triggering the software calculates the influence of the filter for several seconds, what is considered "developing" (English for developing is called). In addition to the lenses, films and flashes that are included in the scope of delivery, others can be activated - some of them for a fee. By November 2010 the software had been sold 1.4 million times.

As a background for its product, the manufacturer is spreading the story of a camera called Hipstamatic 100 , which is said to have been developed in Wisconsin by the brothers Bruce and Winston Dorbowski in the 1980s. The camera is said to have been cheaper than a film. There is no evidence of history.

The Pulitzer Prize winner Damon Winter , who works for the New York Times, used Hipstamatic, while US soldiers accompanied with a mission in Afghanistan. With the iPhone, he could take pictures without attracting much attention. He received the Picture of the Year International award for his photo report .

In December 2013, Post Luxembourg issued a series of stamps in which the photographer François Besch took the photos using Hipstamatic.