6 posts tagged “iphone”
Here's yet another post about what's in my bag. If you like, check out the "What's in your bag?" flickr group to see what other people carry, you will be amazed.
Recently I sold my Ricoh GX-200 camera, so I don't have any digital camera with me all the time. I'm waiting for the white Olympus E-P1 to arrive as it is out of stock now. So here you go, what's in my bag in yesterday's My Moleskine 2.0 talk: Lomo LCA+ decorated with MT-tapes and Staz-On ink, Fujifilm Natura Classica, KOLO Essex Travel Book in leather, Shiny self inking stamp with my email and website info on it, Lomo film, Voigtlander R4A with 35mm f1.2 lens, leather camera strap and film canister holder from Monogram/CameraPeople, Citizen WR 200 or night hawk watch, Pilot Capless retractable fountain pen, USB memory with leather cover and envelope enclosure, iPhone, Moleskine weekly leather diary, shopping bag.
Yesterday I received by post this iPhone Hacks book published by O'Reilly's Make:Magazine. Selected by author Damien Stolarz, my Lomolized iPhone hack is on page 354 to 356.
I didn't realize until now that I have a total of 4 hacks published in this blog:
It will be interesting to see when will these hacks be obsolete as new iPhone features emerges.
Ok, since I posted my screen capture on Flickr, many people asked how to do it. Here's some quick pointers, but be sure to read all the info and links before you attempt to do it coz if you are not familiar with these keywords you'll have a lot of troubles: jailbreak, quickpwn, ftp, photoshop, action script.
- Download QuickPWN (Mac/PC versions available) and follow instructions carefully to install it on your computer. If you do it properly you will be able to connect to your iPhone and jailbreak it.
- After all the fuss your iPhone will restart with 2 new programs installed: Cydia, Installer. These are programs to go online searching for available iPhone apps, enhancements, themes etc.
- On your iPhone, run Cydia or Installer and find a program called Winterboard and install it. Winterboard is a program to load or unload themes (actually more than that).
- You can go back to Cydia or Installer and browse the "themes" category to find a theme you like and download it. To actually use a theme, you just run Winterboard and load the theme you downloaded. Unfortunately this Polaroid theme is not available this way, so you will have to do the following.
- Credit goes to a user named "lauzers" on ipodtouchfans.com forum who created the original Polaroid theme. You can download the theme files here on the forum on your computer. Many people also uploaded their own icon creations on that forum thread, you can download them as well for use in later steps. The theme and icons at this stage stay in your computer's drive.
- Launch Cydia or Installer on your iPhone again and find a program called OpenSSH and install it.
- On your computer, run an FTP program (if you don't have an FTP program, you google it and find one to install. I use Transmit on my Mac), following the instruction on "How to FTP with your iPhone/ iPod Touch". This step is to use an FTP program on your computer to connect to your iPhone so you can access the directories and find the right place to upload the Polaroid themes and icons.
- The FTP program is now connected to your iPhone's directory. Navigate to find the directory /Library/Themes
- Upload the entire Polaroid theme folder and icons to this directory
- Quit the FTP program on your computer
- Go back to iPhone and run Winterboard. You will find your Polaroid theme there, load it and quit Winterboard. There you go, your iPhone looks totally Polaroided.
- Now to go one step further. Since many of us install programs that have their own icons, you may want to change them to Polaroid icons as well. e.g. Facebook, CameraBag, etc. Thanks to "lauzers" again, he/she uploaded a Photoshop action script to make everything easier, the script can be found here. Download it to your computer and install it in your Photoshop script directory.
- Just run the script and it will prompt you to locate an image, modify it to the right size and tone, ask you to type in the icon's name and save it as *.png
- You should name your Polaroid icon same as the program, e.g. for an iPhone program called Exposure, the icon's file name should be Exposure.png
- Start from step 7 again to locate your themes directory on iPhone and upload your new icon
- Go back to Winterboard and restart your theme and your new icon will replace the original application icon!
In addition to lomolizing your iPhone, I found that using Diana+ wide angle viewfinder as an iPhone add-on lens not only improves close-up quality, it even allows me to create double exposure effect as well as kaleidoscope effect.
If you look at the Diana+ viewfinder in detail, you'll see a top window collecting light for the cross hair seen through the viewfinder. By prying open the top window, you will be able to remove the cross hair film and replace it with anything you like, such as your negative/positive film, a painted transparent film etc, thereby creating an overlay or double exposure effect when the viewfinder is used to take shots.
In the above example, I used negative films cut into pieces and put them inside the top window compartment to create a kaleidoscope effect. This create unique imagery for every shot you take, simply shake the viewfinder before you take a shot.
The fun thing about this effect is that you can control the amount of light entering from the viewfinder's top window by using just your finger to make shade. So you get to control how much the kaleidoscope effect is showing in your image, the more light you allow from viewfinder's top, the more dominant the kaleidoscope effect is. If you completely cover the viewfinder's top, you will get a clear image of what your iPhone camera is pointing at. Isn't it amazing? WYSIWYG!
Another way to play with the viewfinder is to replace the cross hair film by a transparent film painted with colors. I found it interesting to dab black pigment ink on one side of the film and then colors from markers on the other side. This method gives you enough dim light (because the black pigment blocks light from viewfinder's top) to show your target image, yet allowing enough colored light to get through. Again, placing your finger on viewfinder's top allows you to control the image blend, compare the image above the two below to see the extremes.
Finally, instead of using iPhone's built-in camera software, I'd suggest you to try Snapture, which allows you to create sepia/negative/grayscale effects and has a timer feature so that you can save one finger in order to hold your iPhone + viewfinder more securely :)
I use my iPhone camera mostly for shooting objects but I'm not going to limit my options by modifying the built-in camera as described by eastrain here. So I decided to try using viewfinders from Lomo cameras to see what I could achieve.
All these Lomo camera lenses has add-on viewfinders and they have great effects on iPhone! Diana+ wide angle lens, LCA+ wide angle lens and Fisheye, each creates unique imagery.
I'm however settled to carry my Diana+ wide angle viewfinder with me all the time coz I love the viewfinder frame and the way I can hold the viewfinder in front of iPhone using its viewfinder holder.
There can be numerous analog effects to play with, add prism in front, create pack film effect by painting/printing on a transparent film as filter, etc. I'm yet to find an easy way to put dozens of filters in front of the viewfinder so that I will be carrying only one gadget for a lot of different effects. Anybody has any ideas please don't hesitate to post or email.
BTW, the Diana+ viewfinder holder can actually hold any of these viewfinders, I'm sure I will take a lot more iPhontos!
I can't believe it is still so damn difficult to post photos from iPhone. First, there is really no good iPhone app to post/browse photos altogether, second iPhone doesn't really work for Vox posting, I can't even create a text post on vox using iPhone.
If I'm able to post photos from my iPhone, you guys will have virtually hourly updates of stationery and photography news. What's up Apple?! Now in Tokyo for business, still postings to come: Our Last Polaroids exhibition, cool stationery products, postcard from colleagues, Superheadz blackbird fly camera, dozens....
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