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.

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.

Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?

This update fixes a bug that caused the light streaks in the new ccd+ camera to be too short.


Introducing ccd+, a faithful digicam simulation mode for CoreCam.

ccd+ is modeled after cameras with CCD sensors, which consist of an array of pixel wells ("bins") that collect incoming photons and convert them into electrical charges.

CCD BLOOM

When a pixel bin accumulates more charge than it can hold, the excess spills vertically due to the sensor’s vertical charge-transfer design. This overflow creates the vertical smearing and blooming effects around bright areas.

CHROMA NOISE

CCD sensors are known for producing vivid but noisy images in low light conditions. Chroma noise appears as colour speckles and is particularly noticeable in the blue channel due to lower sensitivity and reduced photon absorption efficiency at shorter wavelengths.

NEW COLOR PROFILE

Compared to the 2007 camera mode, colors in ccd+ remain more faithful and natural, though greens subtly shift toward cyan as you increase the bias setting. Shadows may appear slightly bluish due to luminance noise in the blue channel.