iPhone Camera App: Instant110

I am an Instagram addict and diehard user. Both the community of Instagram as well as the app itself is really brilliant and keeps bringing me back for more. It's even earned itself a spot on my first homescreen on my iPhone. That could be a whole blog post on it's own. Moving right along.

In the pursuit of funkier filters, flashier frames and crazier controls, I downloaded Instant110. It's $1.99 in the App Store. It's very much a mashup of Camera+ and Instagram in that it offers lots of pre-set filters and frames, but it also offers some more advanced features such as a "Lightroom" where you can try different settings and export the photo to all of your other photography, editing and storage apps. After a few days of use I've found myself drawn to Instant110 to take, edit and frame my picture, before exporting it to Instagram to be posted (and then published, via ifttt.com, to Facebook and Twitter. More on ifttt.com in a future post.)

I've heard these filter apps described as "the auto-tune of photography" by the hosts of Full Frame, but I stand by the saying "the best camera is the one you have with you". Apps like Instant110 definitely make the iPhone a lot more fun, if not also more powerful of a camera. There are about 9 lens (1 costs extra), 5 films and 4 developement options (1 costs extra), which gives you 180 possible combinations. For $1.99, that's some good value. Peek the screenshots below and let me know what you think of the app in the comments. I'd love to see some of your photos too! Email them to me@alexf.ca and I'll post them in a follow up post.

Screenshots