Instead of lugging the huge camera around you can get the same affect from your phone, including tape noise, static and tracking distortion.
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Given the popularity of apps like Instagram that intentionally make your photos look like garbage shot on film, it’s no surprise there’s finally an app that lets your iPhone or iPad shoot video that looks like it was recorded with a VHS camcorder from the mid-1980s.
It’s called VHS Camcorder, we tried it out in the office this evening.
The developers have even made sure to include that ugly-looking timestamp seen on so many VHS home videos because no one knew how to turn it off. The good news is you can change this one to any date you like, ideal for when you shoot your 1983 period drama with your buddies. Better known for more … useful software, Rarevision’s VHS Camcorder is a bodacious new toy for those seeking a fresh nostalgia hit.
Rarevisions suggests to use the app to prank your friends to think you have invented a time machine.
You can’t go back in time, but you can create videos that will make it look as if you traveled back in time to the late 80s or early 90s.
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You can purchase VHS Camera for $4 over in the iTunes App Store for your own blast from the past. And for Android users grousing that Apple sucks, or that this app isn’t totally radical, take a chill pill, bro.
