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The Artist scooped five Oscars, including Best Picture. MacPhun invites you to create and share your own silent film masterpiece.

The creators of FX Photo Studio and Silent Film Director, MacPhun, have teamed up with an impressive panel of judges to present the International Retro Film Contest. Submissions are open now through May 28, 2012. You can use any equipment to record the video, but it should be edited with Silent Film Director app and you can submit as many videos as you like. There are some cool prizes up for grabs, including a new 3rd Gen iPad and two tickets to see the classic silent film masterpiece “Napoleon” in San Francisco.

More info, rules and how to submit entries are on the contest website here. You can also check out some of the other entries to help get your creative process moving.

Silent Film Director is a good retro/vintage iPhone video app with a number of built-in effects. If you don’t already have the app, it’s $1.99 in the App Store and is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.

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For the holiday weekend here in the US, MacPhun are making four of their most popular iPhone photography apps FREE for the weekend through Monday, July 4. Also part of the deal, their very popular filter app FX Photo Studio is on sale for only $0.99 for weekend.

There are some cool photo apps included in this giveaway and this is a great chance to try them out for free or add them to your toolbox. Read past the jump to find out which four apps are free this weekend from MacPhun. >>>

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Updated 01.05.2010

UPDATE 03.10.11: We’ve updated this list for 2011. Be sure to check out our new post “The Ten Best FREE iPhone Photo Apps” featuring both free camera replacements and some great free iPhone photo apps.

iPhone photography doesn’t have to bust your budget. I’ve scoured the Photography section and found four great, FREE camera apps to help you step up your iPhoneography.

This list is not complete, but these are some of the best camera replacement apps I’ve found. Granted, these apps are not as feature-rich as their paid-app siblings. Some of these apps are ad-supported, but none of them add a watermark to your images, all of them save at the iPhone’s full resolution and best of all, the price is free! For no investment other than bandwidth and download time, you can improve your iPhone’s camera and get some impressive looking photographs.

These are apps that are normally free. Apps whose price has been temporarily reduced to free are not included here.

Free iPhone Camera Apps: Camera Plus, Ultimate Camera Free, Gorillacam

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