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

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make CES, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year. Reading the recaps, though, there are two new gizmos this year that I find really intriguing. One of them is Polaroid’s new venture into instant digital photography, the SC1630. It’s basically a Polaroid-branded digital camera with an Android-based smartphone. Engadget.com had one of the best recaps of the new device that I’d read. The link and my thoughts on the SC1630 after the jump. >>>

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File this under “Speculatron”, but the source is Instagram’s CEO which lends these rumors some credence.

According to a recent report on CNET, a version of the insanely popular iPhone photo app (and Apple’s newly announced 2011 App Store iPhone App of the Year) Instagram is coming to Android. Your Samsung Galaxy toting friends will soon be able to share their photos of lunch and puppies (I’m also guilty of both).

“We have two people working on Android now,” Burbn Chief Executive Kevin Systrom told attendees of the recent LeWeb conference in Paris, France. No other timetable was given, What makes this statement different from the previous mentions of Instagram for Android is that I believe this is the first time Systrom has publicly said there are actually people working on it.

Click past the jump for more possible changes coming Instagram’s way. >>>>

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With all the recent improvements in mobile phone cameras, Life In LoFi’s definitive iPhone/Mobile Photo Print Sizes guide has been updated to reflect the larger file sizes of iPhone and mobile cameras as well as the increased processing power of some of the new photo apps. While the updated post is written for iPhone users, the information it features is valid for all mobile phone cameras — as well as DSLRs and digital point-and-shoot cameras.

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Camera360 is a Retro photo app available for the Android platform (you can check it out on the Android Market here). It’s also available for iPhone as Camera360 Ultimate, making it one of the few photo apps that’s available for both platforms.

The new version 2.0 update was released recently for iPhone and it’s a huge step backwards on iOS. If this update is anything close to parity with the Android version, I feel sorry for our Droidographer counterparts.

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Camera360 Ultimate is the most popular app for mobile phone photography on the Droid platform. An iPhone version has been available for a while. It’s not a pano app, as the name might suggest. It’s a camera app with a lot of features, including over a dozen retro style filters.

The app is normally $0.99. It’s FREE right now in the App Store for a limited time. This is for the full version of Camera360 Ultimate, not a feature-limited lite version. There’s no mention of this freebie in the App Description, so I’m thinking it won’t last long. This is a good chance to try the app and see how one of the premier photo apps for Android works.

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch (4th generation), iPad 2 Wi-Fi, and iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

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Dropico sample image, Grunge filter. Click for full size.

Since its introduction in early October of 2010, social photo app Instagram has become a huge success, capturing over a million users its first six weeks alone and becoming the social photo sharing app to top. Over the weekend, a new social photo app Dropico was released and it takes aim at Instagram.

While it has some very nice features compared to Instagram, the initial release for iPhone, version 1.8.5, has a few problems that need to be fixed if Dropico is to try and topple the king.

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Earlier this week, I reported a rumor that the popular photo app Diptic by Peak Systems may support high resolution in the next update. This has been confirmed by the developer. The forthcoming update to Diptic will support full device resolution on your iPhone.

Currently, Diptic only supports up to 1024×1024 pixel resolution. The new update will be a huge improvement and also includes other user-requested features.

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[UPDATED]: Intownmix.com now says that HipshootOut at UTD has been extended through Tuesday August 17, 2010.

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HipShootOut
The University of Texas at Dallas
Visual Arts Building – Gallery
800 W. Campbell Rd. (enter from Waterview)
Richardson, Texas 75081

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The HipShootOut Exhibition in Dallas, Texas opened Saturday, July 31, 2010 at the Visual Arts Center Gallery on the University of Texas-Dallas campus. The event was presented by Intownmix and Photopolus DFW. Part of the proceeds went to raise milk money for a free mobile summer lunch program AmeriCorps and Central Dallas Ministries called Food on the Move, a program that provides more than 500,000 meals for kids in low income areas in Dallas.

The exhibition was part of a non-credit class offered at UTD recently, although submissions for the exhibit were open to anyone. How did Dallas Hipstas do? My thoughts after the jump.

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The MMS Gallery, aka Masterpieces Made Simple, is a mobile phone photography contest that aims to celebrate the use of mobile phones to create art, and showcase the creativity that lives within all people.

Photos may be created with any mobile phone that can take photos, including iPhone, Blackberry, Droid. This contest is free to enter, and all people have to do is email photos from their smartphones (or computer) of anything they deem worthy by July 12, 2010!

The MMS Gallery photo contest was started by O3 World because they believe in the beauty of photography, from people of all types and skill levels. This contest is free to enter, and winning photos will be featured in The MMS Gallery at the O3 World office in Philadelphia, PA in August.

For more information about The MMS Gallery Contest and the August Exhibit, visit the website. For contest submission guidelines, check out this link as well.

You can check out current submissions on the contest’s official Flickr page.

The MMS Gallery Contest and Exhibition are presented by O3 World.

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Sadly, here at the global headquarters of LifeInLoFi.com, we don’t have a dedicated testing facility or access to any smartphone and digital camera on the market. Fortunately, the folks at Macworld do, and in case you missed it, they’ve tested the new iPhone 4 camera against not only several other smartphones in its class, but a couple of consumer point-and-shoot digital cameras as well. For good measure, they’ve added a Flip Video Camera and thrown in a test or two to see how the new HD video camera fares.

How did the iPhone 4 camera stack up against other smartphones and dedicated cameras in these tests?

For anyone serious about image or video quality, or who knows a bit about photography and wants manual camera controls, the iPhone 4 still has a ways to go as a camera. As a camera built into a smartphone, however, it’s as good as they get.

Click to read the entire story on Macworld.com, iPhone 4 camera beats the smartphone competition.

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