KitCam: It's a lot of camera for just $1.99

Here's a new camera app I'm playing with. It's called KitCam, and it offers some interesting advantages over Hipstamatic, Instragram, Magic Hour and other such apps. The app comes with a wide range of lens and film choices. It handles video and time-lapse and tilt shift and even multi-exposure. It connects you to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Dropbox, Instagram and more. And almost all of it comes with the basic $1.99 package.

Here's a video introduction:



Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Workflow: How to create a time-lapse video with a Mac and Final Cut Pro X

Rich Harrington at Adorama demonstrates:

Capturing the story with time-lapse photography: Sandy slams into NYC

Here's a time-lapse sequence from photographer Silas Maniatis that demonstrates the power of the form to tell a story simply but effectively. Here, he captures Hurricane Sandy as it passes through New York City.



Interested in learning how to shoot time-lapse? There are plenty of resources online. Here are a few:

• Timelapse Photography: A Complete Guide for Beginners
• Timelapse Photography Tutorial: An Overview of Shooting, Processing and Rendering Timelapse Movies
• The Ultimate Guide to Time-Lapse Photography

A down-and-dirty approach to time-lapse photography

Time-lapse photography can provide a very cool change of pace for your videos. In this presentation, Chris Jarvis demonstrates four time-lapse set-ups featuring a Nikon D3S, a Nikon D7000, and two GoPro Hero2s. The results are intriguing:



Instead of shooting a landscape, imagine using the same technique to capture time-lapse of a demonstration, or a process, or even an office in motion. There's a lot you can do with this technique.

Of course, there's more to this technique than just capturing the images. If you are working with a DSLR, here's a good place to start: http://www.lightstalking.com/timelapse

If you are working with a GoPro, start here: http://www.all-things-photography.com/gopro-hd-hero-time-lapse.html

There are plenty of other sources online, some for free, some for pay.

A time-lapse device for mobile phones for $25

The Phoblographer writes:

The Camalapse is a device that is made for smaller point and shoot cameras as well as mobile phones. Smartphones are loaded with great timelapse apps so there’s no need for complicated electronics inside of the Camalapse.