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\nA polaroid camera found on a flea market, photographed with the iPhone using Hipstamatic. <\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Accidental photography<\/h2>\n

I’ve been a long time user of an old Polaroid camera that I truly loved for its genuine output and its results with accidental framing<\/a>. The low quality lenses and the color prints that renders a cold and blue light<\/a> helped me to keep track of my travels in a distinctive and poetic<\/a> way.<\/p>\n

However, since the Polaroid disappearance, I’ve been looking for a smartphone application that could mimics a large range of low end cameras, Polaroid<\/a>, Holga<\/a> or Lomo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I found two main apps to do that : Hipstamatic<\/a> for iPhone and RetroCamera<\/a> on Android phones.<\/p>\n

RetroCamera<\/em> is advertised as an equivalent of Hipstamatic <\/em>in the Android Market, but is it a proper alternative ? To figure this out, it decided to conduct a rough test of these two apps.<\/p>\n

The test protocol<\/h2>\n

To compare the output of these apps , I took a series of photos with two smartphones stuck together, at the same time, in the same place. Hipstamatic <\/em>is running on my old iPhone 3G, RetroCamera <\/em>was installed on my brand new Motorola Defy.<\/p>\n

There are obviously several biases in this approach :<\/p>\n