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[Handycam]

It's "Holga", not "Helga", btw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holga

[Jon Seff]

CameraBag calls its filter Helga. Perhaps to avoid any trademark issues?

[dominiquejames]

I love this app. Many of my iPhone photos looked more interesting after a pass thru CameraBag. This app is one of my favorites, and I've recommended this to a lot of friends.

[Heather Kelly]

Yep, it's because of trademark issues. They also call the lomo setting "lolo."

[dreyfus]

I love this app. I have tried several photo apps and CameraBag, Photogene (correction, frames and bubbles) and OldBooth (put faces into funny legacy pictures) are the only ones I have not deleted right away.
CameraBag is a great example of making a flaw (weak iPhone camera) a virtue. Even pictures that would be rather unacceptable by default become somewhat interesting.

[djwanson]

5 Star app. Just get it, It's great.

[Rick LePage]

I agree with Jon - it's my favorite overall iPhone app. certainly gets the most use: here and here (flickr)

[Jon Seff]

If some of the settings were a little easier to access, and you could apply multiple filters at once, it would be pushing a five-mouse rating.

[Rick LePage]

I think it will get there: it's come quite a ways since its first couple of revs.

[cal_gecko]

looking for something that will let me add vignetting, and adjust contrast after taking the photo... do any of the apps mentioned here do that?

[dreyfus]

cal_gecko said:

looking for something that will let me add vignetting, and adjust contrast after taking the photo... do any of the apps mentioned here do that?

Not really the answer you are looking for I assume: The app "Picoli" has a contrast adjustment filter (user adjustable) that works well, but it has no vignetting filter. The "Helga" preset in CameraBag does add a vignette (fixed), but has no contrast setting (no custom settings at all, really). "Photogene" does have level and sharpening adjustments (using these in the right combination will give you sufficient control over the contrast) and several frame types to choose from, but no vignette. I have not seen an iPhone app yet that really does both (unless I missed it of course).

[Adammiller]

The effects that this app offers are awesome but it freezes up for me all of the time. I loved it right off the bat and use it all the time but on probably a dozen occasions it has quit in the middle of saving a photo, leaving the thumbnail visible as the first photo in my Camera Roll but not visible when I actually enter the Camera Roll. Another annoying flaw that I found is when I take a picture with the app, the final result after it takes the picture, is cropped and to the right of what I actually took. I tried it with the regular camera app and it works fine, went back to CameraBag and it still does it. I adjusted to it pretty quickly by taking pictures further back and to the left of what I wanted my picture to be but its really a pain. Is anyone else experiencing this?

[Adammiller]

I just downloaded a update to camerabag. The process of taking pictures seems snappier and I haven't had it quit like I mentioned previously but it still crops the photo some on capture.