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  "createdAt": "2025-12-22T08:14:00+00:00",
  "description": "A new camera app. Yes I'm reviewing camera apps for the Apple iPhone now. It's a good app ok",
  "path": "/stream/not-boring-camera",
  "publishedAt": "2025-12-22T08:14:00+00:00",
  "site": "at://did:plc:swxoj3wjlwodcqs5ipmvgnug/site.standard.publication/3mnv7gbn3czno",
  "tags": [
    "Photography",
    "Apps"
  ],
  "textContent": "I don't know if you've heard about these Not Boring apps. I like their strong aesthetic but I don't like that they're basically not cohesive at all with anything other than the other apps. There's a habit tracker app that's... maybe hiking-themed? But also sort of brutalist? It's got all sorts of noises that play when you tap on things. Okay whatever.Their newest app, the Not Boring !Camera (yes the errant \"!\" here is sic), is a little bit different. It aims to produce a \"film-like grain\", which is website-speak for leaning into the limitations of the iPhone's tiny sensor and skip the layers of optimisation that the default camera app uses to make photos look smooth and HDR and a little overcomposed. It does a good job of this.It also comes loaded with a handful of lookup tables (LUTs), which are nominally color-grading profiles but which practically speaking are Instagram filters. It feels like we all decided sometime in the 2010s that filters were tryhard or something and so we all stopped using them. Good thing !Camera doesn't use filters but LUTs, which are something that only professionals use and which are therefore exempt from tryhard accusations.For years now, the whole reason that I take pictures with my phone is to try and record moments that I don't want to forget so that I can revive them years (or months) from now when my soft brain has reallocated that memory space. That is to say, I take pictures to capture a real-life experience, not because I like what something looks like.But the !Camera app has changed that somewhat. I find myself taking pictures in car parks or in my living room or on dog walks just to use the app. And I find myself revisiting those pictures more often, not because I want to relive my dog walk, but because the pictures I've taken are fun to look at.",
  "title": "Not Boring !Camera",
  "updatedAt": "2025-12-28T18:39:00+00:00"
}