Life in LoFi: iPhoneography | iPhone Photo News, Showcases, App Reviews

There are plenty of third-party sites which add to the Instagram experience. So far, though, there is no official Instagram portal or app for web or desktop with the functionality of the iPhone app.

Carousel, a new app from Mobelux, brings a lot of the Instagram app’s functionality to the Mac OS and is a simple way to explore, like and comment Instagram pics on your Mac.

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Phonto, used with an image created with WordFoto

Phonto
Version 1.0.1
Price: Free, with in-app purchase of $0.99 to remove ads.

Bottom Line: That rare free app that does as good as or better than its commercial counterparts.

Phonto is a great little typography app from youthhr, the developer of Cameramatic and Monochromia. It lets you place text in different styles on your images.

It would be a great app for a buck or two. Instead, the developer has released it as a free app, making this great utility a very highly recommended download.

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Fusioncam by Steply has just been released. It’s an easy to use classic toy camera with multiple exposure capabilities, just like a real toy camera.

Fusioncam is FREE today, Tuesday, May 31. After today, it’ll spend some time at $0.99 before going up to its regular price of $1.99.

To try Fusioncam, download the app now while it’s free, then click past the jump to see what I think of the app.

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King Camera
Version 1.0
Price: $2.99 |

Bottom Line: King Camera is a powerful and well designed camera replacement. It’s a very impressive 1.0 release that has the features and feel of a 2.0.

UPDATE 05.31.11 @22:00: Now on sale for $0.99 for a limited time only.

King Camera by Saycheezzz.com is a new all-in-one camera app. It arrived in the App Store with a lot of bluster, if you will. As far as photo apps go, it promises to do just about everything but read to you.

I saw its list of features — which is very, very impressive. An app that claims to do this much as well as it claims has a lot to prove and I wasn’t going to cut it any slack in my review.

I’m impressed with King Camera. While not perfect, this 1.0 release is very well thought out and very solid. And the app delivers what it says.

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WordFoto
Version 1.0
Price $1.99

Bottom Line: Not for all photos, but works really well with the right pics. WordFoto is a fun app that can also add powerful messages.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how about a picture of a thousand words? bitCycle, the developers of the Lenses app, have created WordFoto, a pretty cool app that creates some impressive Typography Art from your photos.

Similar in concept to ASCII art, Typographic Art uses type and words to create an image. Arranging and fitting the text is a pretty complex task for a graphic designer in Illustrator or Photoshop. WordFoto does it with ease in seconds on an iPhone.

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FrontView
Version 1.0
Price: $0.99

Bottom Line: FrontView is fast, easy to use, and saves at the highest possible resolution. For a buck, it’s a great addition to an iPhoneographer’s toolbox.

Right now, FrontView is FREE in the App Store. FrontView is recommended at its normal price of $0.99. It’s a must-have for free. This reduction is for a limited time, so grab it now and read my review while you’re downloading….

Sometimes, it’s just not possible to get the dead-on square, front and center shot you want. The building is too tall or there are too many people directly in front of that painting on the wall. FrontView is a simple, great utility for fixing any undesired perspective in your images like off-center snapshots of paintings, billboards, architecture, posters, etc. making them appear as if taken from the exact front and center.

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Recently, I’ve seen several conversations on Twitter and Facebook discussing tripod mounts for an iPhone.

The Glif is a simple iPhone 4 accessory with two primary functions: mounting your iPhone onto a tripod and propping up your iPhone at various angles. It’s been out for a while and we’ve featured it in the past here on the blog, but have never reviewed it, until now.

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We usually don’t cover iPhone video apps here on Life In LoFi, but Cinegenix have just released a pretty cool new camera app that I’m pretty excited about. It’s a video app that brings professional features to iPhone video.

FiLMiC Pro by Cinegenix is billed as “THE Filmmaker’s App.” They are pretty close. FiLMiC Pro adds features specifically for videographers which improve the video production experience on the iPhone.

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8X Telephoto Lens from Photojojo. Photo by Stacy Anderson

The iPhone camera does not have a true zoom lens per se. It has a digital zoom. That means that the camera lacks the actual lenses to “zoom” you closer to your subject. Apple’s Camera app achieves a similar effect with a software zoom effect by cropping and resampling on the fly. As you zoom in closer — asking the iPhone do more with essentially fewer pixels — your images become noisier and fuzzier.

An optical lens will nearly always give better results than a digital zoom. If you use the iPhone camera’s digital zoom often, you may want to consider purchasing an external optical zoom lens. The 8X Telephoto Lens for iPhone from Photojojo is a good — not perfect –optical telephoto lens for a value price.

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PicFrame
Version 1.0
Price $0.99

Bottom Line: A very good multi-panel photo creator that stacks up well against the excellent Diptic.

PicFrame is a new frame/diptych app from New Zealand’s ActiveDevelopment, the makers of picfx. Use it to join multiple photos into one multi-image frame — a diptych, triptych or quadtych.

It’s going to draw a lot of comparisons to the excellent and popular Diptic app by Peak Systems, and it does have many similarities. But there are also enough differences to make this a tough call to choose between the two.

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