CoreCam

iPhone / Photo et vidéo

CoreCam is a love letter to the look and feel of photos taken with digital cameras from the early 2000s.

It’s built around a computational model of early digicam optical and electronic properties, and its graphics engine runs in real time as you frame your shot. Every camera you select via the camera switcher is modeled after a specific digicam model and vibe.

NEW: [seele] camera!

seele is an homage to the soul of early 2000s digicams and camera phones, the Cyber-shot and RAZR era. It has two different characters you can dial in using the main bias slider.

In positive bias, seele produces a strong bloom that drifts into cyan hues. Highlights become overexposed, while shadows stay dark. This mode is ideal for artificial lights and night scenes.

In negative bias, you'll get strong chroma noise and compression artifacts. As the simulation falls apart and reveals its digital core, you'll see fixed pattern noise and false color appear. This mode is perfect for busy city scenes, flash portraits, and even nature photography.

Just like early camera hardware, CoreCam offers a simple, point-and-shoot interface. Using the main slider above the shutter button, you can stir and influence the behavior of the digicam emulation engine, changing the look of your images. By design, CoreCam produces low-resolution images of ~1MP. Our philosophy is the opposite of pixel-peeping into 4K HDR footage: low fidelity, high emotion.

NO SUBSCRIPTION

- CoreCam will always be a one-time purchase. No hidden fees!
- Regular updates with new cameras and features

VIDEO MODE

Switch to video mode with a single tap and capture footage with your virtual digicam. CoreCam also adapts your recording's audio profile to simulate the authentic microphone quality of the early 2000s.

LORES MODE

The new lores mode allows you to virtually downscale CoreCam’s image sensor to any size between 0.3 MP, VGA (640×480), and 144p webcam levels. It works with all cameras, including video and selfie mode.

SPECIAL EFFECTS

Each camera has a special effects mode that lets you push the digicam aesthetic to the limit:

- ccd+ (jpgX): degraded chroma grain, reduced detail, and real JPEG compression artifacts for dreamy Y2K shots
- seele (bayer): Bayer CFA + fast demosaic, where fine detail collapses into moiré, false color, and zippered edges

Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?

This update fixes a rare bug that could cause the volume of video recordings to spike suddenly.

Previous update:

NEW: Introducing [seele] camera!

[seele] is an homage to the soul of early 2000s digicams and camera phones, the Cyber-shot and RAZR era. It has two different characters you can dial in using the main bias slider.

In positive bias, seele produces a strong bloom that drifts into cyan hues. Highlights become overexposed, while shadows stay dark. This mode is ideal for artificial lights and night scenes.

In negative bias you'll get strong chroma noise and compression artefacts. As the simulation falls apart and reveals its digital core, you'll see fixed pattern noise and false colour appear. This mode is perfect for busy city scenes, flash portraits, and even nature photography.

BAYER (seeles's special effects mode)

seele comes with a faithful simulation of a Bayer colour filter array and a fast demosaic reconstruction. When enabled via the star icon, high-detail regions begin to break: moiré, false colour, and zippery edges will appear.

TIPS:
- Try seele with low exposure: tap a bright area in your viewfinder. The amount of light hitting the sensor changes how strong the bloom becomes
- Combine negative bias with the lo-res mode (set low) for a more realistic noise texture
- When using seele in negative bias mode, make sure to set video quality to "high", else the encoder will eat up your noise texture!