VHS Camcorder App For Shooting Grainy Video
On the App Store, a newly launched app has risen up to take the #3 paid app spot. It was made by a Los Angeles-based company named Rarevision. Behold, VHS Camcorder, an app that allows you to shoot grainy videos like the 80s!
Fortunately, the app is a lot easier to use than the original camcorders: Open the app, hit ‘record’ and hold your finger on the screen to make it extra grainy. A zoom lens dramatically increases the cheese factor. In settings, you can adjust the resolution, frame rate and select a setting that messes up the picture when you move the camera. Everything is just like it used to be! You can also fake the on-screen date, to try to convince your friends that it really was taken in, say, 1987.
The creators say that the purpose of the app was to remind people how far video has come in the last 30 years. They say that they tried to emulate what camcorders used to be like, with static noises, tape noises, and tracking distortion. There is a blur that appears on the screen, random parts get whited out, and the pictures are pretty grainy.
VHS Camcorder seems like an interesting app that I would like to try sometime. The only drawback is that it costs $4.
Fortunately, the app is a lot easier to use than the original camcorders: Open the app, hit ‘record’ and hold your finger on the screen to make it extra grainy. A zoom lens dramatically increases the cheese factor. In settings, you can adjust the resolution, frame rate and select a setting that messes up the picture when you move the camera. Everything is just like it used to be! You can also fake the on-screen date, to try to convince your friends that it really was taken in, say, 1987.
The creators say that the purpose of the app was to remind people how far video has come in the last 30 years. They say that they tried to emulate what camcorders used to be like, with static noises, tape noises, and tracking distortion. There is a blur that appears on the screen, random parts get whited out, and the pictures are pretty grainy.
VHS Camcorder seems like an interesting app that I would like to try sometime. The only drawback is that it costs $4.
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