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1984 Cam – VHS Camcorder, Retro Camera Effects @ Google Play Store

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1984 Cam is a VHS Camcorder style video effects generator app, it’ll make videos that look and sound like real retro videotapes recorded 30 years before by a vintage VHS Camcorder.

Features:
- Record VHS style video
- Import video from gallery to add VHS Effects
- Landscape capture mode
- Zoom in, zoom out just like an old camcorder
- Black & white mode
- Red, Green, Blue only mode
- Easy to save & share
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  1. mikemod's avatar
    I've still got the original hardware if anyone wants the real thing
  2. superspod's avatar
    Darren_Cooke08/10/2019 09:07

    1984 Cam. 1984 as in the book about the state snooping on people. And an …1984 Cam. 1984 as in the book about the state snooping on people. And an app requesting permission to use your camera, mic and access to your filesystem... Am I paranoid?


    I have no idea about whether Big Brother wrote this app, but I suspect that it would be hard to record a video without access to your camera, mic and filesystem!
  3. The_Guru's avatar
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  4. Darren_Cooke's avatar
    1984 Cam. 1984 as in the book about the state snooping on people. And an app requesting permission to use your camera, mic and access to your filesystem... Am I paranoid?
  5. superspod's avatar
    Is there a Betamax version as well?
  6. themachman's avatar
    Remember to use Scotch tapes
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  7. GothBoy's avatar
    superspod08/10/2019 09:12

    Is there a Betamax version as well?


    Unlikely, the superior video quality of Betamax would render it invalid.
  8. toaster's avatar
    gazzjenks08/10/2019 10:34

    Great app. Have downloaded. Heat added. Isn’t it strange that we love old t …Great app. Have downloaded. Heat added. Isn’t it strange that we love old technology in today’s society of hi tech gadgets....I love my record player and miss my VHS recorder with videoplus ....life was so much simpler back in the day


    Videoplus, nah way to easy, I had to use the bar-code reader on my Panasonic VHS recorder remote handset to scan predetermined bar-code time slots printed on a hard plastic booklet just to record an episode of Minder.
  9. toaster's avatar
    mcek08/10/2019 11:30

    The only sad part of that story is that you watched Minder.I do miss my …The only sad part of that story is that you watched Minder.I do miss my old Sony C7 though.https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8225638/sony-sl-c7-betamax-video-recorder-video-recorder


    What are you on about, Minder was brilliant.
  10. superspod's avatar
    toaster08/10/2019 12:44

    What are you on about, Minder was brilliant.



    What a theme tune
  11. doormanjoel's avatar
    Remember the days of going to the video shop...be kind rewind..........😁
  12. Roger_Irrelevant's avatar
    Darren_Cooke08/10/2019 09:07

    1984 Cam. 1984 as in the book about the state snooping on people. And an …1984 Cam. 1984 as in the book about the state snooping on people. And an app requesting permission to use your camera, mic and access to your filesystem... Am I paranoid?


    Not until all our homes have listening devices or even cameras that corporations and government can tap into, but that'll never happen.

    Oh wait..
  13. ketsunoanna's avatar
    Arh VHS, begetter of that immortal piece of advice for any malfunctioning device " its your tracking mate ".
  14. TM1233's avatar
    themachman08/10/2019 23:23

    Remember to use Scotch tapes [Image]


    That advert is forever etched in my memory as a child.
    I’m going to tell you how it’s going to be, it’s scotch’s lifetime guarantee, watch what you want both night and day, then re-record not fade away...
    Why does the brain remember crap but forget anything useful?😫
  15. Darren_Cooke's avatar
    superspod08/10/2019 09:11

    I have no idea about whether Big Brother wrote this app, but I suspect …I have no idea about whether Big Brother wrote this app, but I suspect that it would be hard to record a video without access to your camera, mic and filesystem!


    100% agree! Which makes it the perfect cover, no? (Btw I'm not normally one to care about such things, but the naming of this didn't need to be 1984, so it's am in-joke that's a little too close for my own liking. Looks good though). (edited)
  16. Toon_army's avatar
    Downloaded, going to try it out and if it's any good it'll be part of my next YouTube video
    Who doesn't love a bit Retro!


    mikemod08/10/2019 08:43

    I've still got the original hardware if anyone wants the real thing


    I must admit I've still got an old video recorder, maybe one day they'll come back
  17. Roger_Irrelevant's avatar
    Sho_Nuff08/10/2019 09:02

    Great idea. Looking at some photos from the 1980s I miss that slight …Great idea. Looking at some photos from the 1980s I miss that slight graininess that seemed to give some character to the photos.


    It's not just the grainyness there's the different colour balancing, vignetting etc. There's an android app (I forget the exact name but something like Retro Camera) that lets you pick different cameras e.g. Polaroid etc.
  18. gazzjenks's avatar
    Great app. Have downloaded. Heat added. Isn’t it strange that we love old technology in today’s society of hi tech gadgets....I love my record player and miss my VHS recorder with videoplus ....life was so much simpler back in the day
  19. italiastar33's avatar
    superspod08/10/2019 09:12

    Is there a Betamax version as well?


    Apparently there is, but only for Windows phones
  20. ChampEon's avatar
    Aj_says09/10/2019 00:18

    most millenials using this filter won't be old enough to remember what VHS …most millenials using this filter won't be old enough to remember what VHS was


    I think you mean Generation Z. Millenials (Gen Y) grew up using VHS!
  21. The_Guru's avatar
    I'm waiting for the Betamax retro version!
  22. kirkyuk's avatar
    Why would anyone use this? I spent years trying to improve the quality of my VHS-C & Hi8 Camcorder recordings and was so happy when I got my first MiniDV camcorder, then drooled over HDV. I will never go back...What next, is HMV going to sell the latest films on VHS
  23. amour3k's avatar
    Looks goooood to me:

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    Onwards, and upwards, and all that ... lol. :-)
  24. Aj_says's avatar
    most millenials using this filter won't be old enough to remember what VHS was
  25. Yakkyda's avatar
    To the paranoid people reading this...
    Those secret squirrel government departments already have access to your devices.
    Another app will make no difference at all.

    If you want to lead a private existence - you will have to give up your tech..
  26. brush1's avatar
    thermomonkey09/10/2019 14:24

    Last year I was genuinely shocked to find out I am technically a …Last year I was genuinely shocked to find out I am technically a millennial. I'm at the older end of the spectrum, but a millennial none the less.


    Yeah 1981 is the start of the millennial year of birth.

    I had a JVC top loader with a remote on wire, also tuning in my TV with a knob as it couldnt set channels.
    We had all our phone numbers written in a phone book, I remember my 1st mobile phone, a brick Nokia, the sim was built into the phone.

    The boomers that think millenials are lazy and entitled and only born after the year 2000 are a stereotype for their low education and high and mighty opinions. (edited)
  27. themachman's avatar
    cicobuff09/10/2019 15:55

    Well true, the advert was for Audio Tapes...but Maxell did do VHS …Well true, the advert was for Audio Tapes...but Maxell did do VHS Cassettes too. Many an X Files episode were taped on these.....[Image]


    Remember getting a pack of them every year off my Brother for Xmas!
    Found an old Scotch tape from years ago and read the guarantee. They were having us on all along. Its states only if the format is still readily available!!!
    Bloody racket!!
  28. Sho_Nuff's avatar
    Great idea. Looking at some photos from the 1980s I miss that slight graininess that seemed to give some character to the photos.
  29. deleted72028's avatar
    What do you mean, rtetro? I still watch VHS letterbox 16:9 Star Wars on a 4:3 CRT
  30. herrbz's avatar
    Darren_Cooke08/10/2019 09:07

    1984 Cam. 1984 as in the book about the state snooping on people. And an …1984 Cam. 1984 as in the book about the state snooping on people. And an app requesting permission to use your camera, mic and access to your filesystem... Am I paranoid?


    How is it going to film and save photos/videos without those permissions?
  31. TM1233's avatar
    What next, an app that rewinds your videos slowly so you get the effect of waiting half an hour for it to get to the start?
  32. MungoSplodge's avatar
    Don't see the point in this... I have a phone that can shoot movies in 4k but can now make it look as cruddy as when my dad used to take the video recorder out and shakily record my little brother and I down the park. Playing football carefree and loving life without all the modern stress of mortgages and Brexit and Trump and.... Oh... I get it... It's wonderful nostalgia... Downloaded
  33. TM1233's avatar
    MungoSplodge08/10/2019 20:22

    Don't see the point in this... I have a phone that can shoot movies in 4k …Don't see the point in this... I have a phone that can shoot movies in 4k but can now make it look as cruddy as when my dad used to take the video recorder out and shakily record my little brother and I down the park. Playing football carefree and loving life without all the modern stress of mortgages and Brexit and Trump and.... Oh... I get it... It's wonderful nostalgia... Downloaded


    Just wipe a little Vaseline on the lens and voila instant crap 80’s picture effect
  34. xxbluedragonxx's avatar
    Perfect for the new £2000 iphone with 20 cameras!
  35. brush1's avatar
    Aj_says09/10/2019 00:18

    most millenials using this filter won't be old enough to remember what VHS …most millenials using this filter won't be old enough to remember what VHS was


    I'm a millennial, I've used more VHS tapes than you've had hot dinners... let me guess.. boomer?
  36. thinwhiteduke's avatar
    themachman08/10/2019 23:23

    Remember to use Scotch tapes [Image]



    Ah yes...and it reminded me of those Maxell adverts where they used the singer from Bauhaus (Pete Murphy)

  37. themachman's avatar
    cicobuff09/10/2019 13:53

    Maxell, all the way......Peter Murphy way, way …Maxell, all the way......Peter Murphy way, way cooler.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBem3x7G6bc


    Now then that was for audio cassettes! Sure they had a look a like do the video tapes though?
  38. cicobuff's avatar
    themachman09/10/2019 15:52

    Now then that was for audio cassettes! Sure they had a look a like do the …Now then that was for audio cassettes! Sure they had a look a like do the video tapes though?


    Well true, the advert was for Audio Tapes...but Maxell did do VHS Cassettes too. Many an X Files episode were taped on these.....


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