We all snap pictures like crazy these days and post them to a number of sharing sites. But there was a time when you would be so excited to get your roll of film back to see what pics you shot. Mari and Linda Johannessen are bringing that experience back with a new app for iPhone. You can take 24 pics, but you can’t review them. When the “film roll” is full, you send it away and get back 24 developed prints, delivered to your physical mailbox, within a week.
Personally, I love the idea.
I like the idea, not too thrilled with “SIMPLE LOGIN VIA FACEBOOK”. Nope.
You can either create an account with your email or with your Facebook account. Your choice
Thanks for the mention, we appreciate it! We hope people will love our app as much as we do, let’s make photos fun again. Learn more at http://www.authenpicapp.com.
Wow, its like the nostalgic revival of vinyl records, only with the 8-Track tape :-/
Lets face it…most of those 24 pics were of people with their eyes closed, weird expressions on their faces, or a second after the action, or with your finger over the lens, or, or, or.
To paraphrase my wife’s comment when platform shoes made a brief comeback many years ago…”You kids! We took that technology bullet for you so you wouldn’t have to suffer like we did!”
I didn’t see this anywhere on the website, is it shown somewhere?
Yes, you can login with both your email or via Facebook. We’ve added that on our website now, thanks for pointing it out James!
Great, thanks. I was surprised to see only Facebook login. Thanks for the prompt response.
Thanks for the feedback, Bruce! Luckily we have only good experiences with our developed photos so far, and part of this is due to the fact that it’s easier to take good photos on your smartphone than it was on the old disposable cameras.
I don’t think this is right for me, but I love the idea.
I’m certainly not against nostalgia per se, but the idea of purposely making things harder and less convenient just doesn’t make any sense to me. I always hated having to get film developed and feel that the instant gratification is one of the best features of digital cameras. So I guess it’s safe to say I’m not in the target audience.
“Remember those days when you waited for your photos to arrive in the mail…” I don’t think I ever sent off film by mail. I do remember dropping rolls off at Walgreens or a Photo Hut though.
I hate it.
It combines all the annoyances of film (cost, waiting) with “hey, this shot’s ruined because the phone’s wonky autofocus decided to try and change focus when I hit the button”.
At least my film cameras didn’t actively try to ruin my shots.
(I own multiple medium format and probably 20 35mm cameras.
I never shoot film anymore.
Film is dead, and should stay that way.)
(Now, I agree with authenpic’s comments below, that an iPhone makes it far easier to take a good picture than an old disposable did.
But that’s also a pretty low bar, and frankly I am not seeing why I’d want to spend money to find out that I got a bad picture, rather than just fixing it in realtime.
Plainly I am not the target market.)
That and cost!
The marginal cost of a digital photo is so close to zero as makes no difference.
(I stopped taking very nice, composed, beautiful medium format pictures because they cost over $2 a piece, all told.
And because a cheap DSLR or 4/3 or good P+S camera will take a picture 99% as good [and more flexibly!], for zero marginal cost.
So now I can take very nice, composed, beautiful digital pictures, and take as many of them as I want, without having to blow piles of money on film and developing and printing.
There’s a reason film is dead.)
Speaking as someone who used to develop photos for a living, and has a lot of nostalgia for film, I think this is a terrible idea. They’re celebrating the flaws of an older process, not its strengths or unique elements.