8mm Vintage Camera Reviews

UPDATE 2022: Whoa! Greed happens! I bought this wonderful, 5-star app a few years ago and had a great time making Halloween movies. Now, suddenly, it’s a subscription based “update”?! Why is this subscription model taking off like a rocket in 8mmVintageCamera Store? Too many photo editing apps are going this route. Do the developers realize that these apps are NOT necessities? Professional photographers buy software packages for work. The rest of us tinker and play and amuse ourselves with photo/video editing. I won’t be updating 8mmVintageCamera, and when it finally stops working, I’ll simply delete it and go live my life without it. I strongly encourage everyone else to do the same.
Original review: I had to update my review to 5 stars because the complaints I had were all my own fault. After looking further through 8mmVintageCamera , I found what I needed with just a couple of exceptions. First need: I’d like an update to allow control via a selfie stick through the lightening cable port (as on the newer iPhones). Second, a zoom feature! I couldn’t figure out how to zoom?! Come on! Even the actual 8mm cameras in the 1960’s had a zoomable lens. Otherwise, I love 8mmVintageCamera. It’s just hours and hours of fun!!

8mmVintageCamera that you payed for a a “lifetime” of updates by paying for while others used a free version supported by ads thus putting your money towards funding developing 8mmVintageCamera and that you’ve used maybe 3 times is now a subscription! And the money you payed to help said developer has disappeared. Poof. By clicking “update software” that “needs to be updated” you have hither too forfeited any rights you have payed for henceforth. We “said app developer” have “NO” intention of hoodwinking any future suckers (CURRENT COMPANY EXCLUDED) into throwing their hard earned money into making HD 4K digital video look like it was shot on outdated hardware. I’m sure it has to be constant grueling backbreaking work to update the software. Every month must be so labor intensive I can not believe you are brave enough to charge this monthly fee.

I’ve had 8mmVintageCamera for a few years and I’ve enjoyed using it. But I really hate when apps go from one time purchase to forcing users into a subscription model. The same thing happened with filmic Pro and even though it’s a great app, I canceled them too and I’m not looking back. Especially with AI coming in hard and fast. 8mmVintageCamera will likely end up in the waste bin of history anyway. You should’ve treated your long time users better. Goodbye.

8mmVintageCamera developers without asking anyone installed a new version of 8mmVintageCamera with paywall extras and a weird new interface. I am strongly thinking about deleting this. Where do you save a video? What happened to the buttons? Is this now for selfies? The filters don’t look like they used to. The new app is so bad I recommend people to download alternatives but the disturbing part of all of this is how without any permission, the old app is gone and this replacing it! For privacy violations alone, skip this!

I use to love 8mmVintageCamera. Sure there were things that could use improving but now it just looks and feels like every other video app out there. Add in subscription!! No thank you.

You know, I get it, developers need to monetize, and that people do need to eat for the work they do, but 8mmVintageCamera offers even less now than the old version. This version doesn’t even have any directions on the changes.

Look, some of us just liked 8mmVintageCamera the way it was. I don’t know why developers have to completely release an all new app under the current name. If you’re going to do such a radical change then just release it as an all new app and leave the current one alone.

This new app has killed my love for video entirely.

Used 8mmVintageCamera for years, it was robust, full featured, stable, and best of all was that I paid for it and had all the features. Now my iPhone X can barely run 8mmVintageCamera for 5 minutes without overheating…
This also feels like a predatory update and I believe that it should be against Apple Store developer guidelines… They developed a version 2 of 8mmVintageCamera (with heavily subscription based features) & released it about a month ago, then took it off 8mmVintageCamera Store, and instead they decided to force the version 2 onto us (replacing the original, stable, full featured version that I purchased years ago) and now giving us this buggy, over-modernized version with a paywall to get any of the cool new filters/features… we shouldn’t have to pay another 30$ or monthly subscription for the full featured version of an application we purchased years ago. If you want to leave it as it was I think most of us would prefer that to your new app…

So I think 8mmVintageCamera is not exactly easy to use. Clarification on the buttons and what everything means would be helpful…..and also….my biggest complaint is that when you want to spice up a video that was already taken on the iPhone regular camera….the audio does not come over with it. So you can’t edit a video unless it was taken with 8mmVintageCamera . Kinda strange unless someone can help me with that. It definitely a bummer. 8mmVintageCamera is a lot of money I should be able to do that with already existing videos. Help please!

I won't be as dramatic as other reviewers, but 8mmVintageCamera really took a nosedive towards the end of 2022. It used to be a fun way to make retro-style videos, and had a unique interface that set it apart from the rest. Now it's as generic as they come. 8mmVintageCamera /company didn't ruin my life or affect my love for making videos with my phone. It's just a disappointment. I can deal with an interface change, but what finally drove me away from 8mmVintageCamera was the baffling multi-app release and underhanded move to a subscription model. They released a separate, subscription-based app as the "new version" and then apparently dumped that one and updated the old, paid app to have subscriptions. My options are to update (losing the former originality, and invariably getting pestered with notifications to subscribe in 8mmVintageCamera ), or stick with the old version (and forever have the update pending in the AppStore). Or a third option: give up on them reverting this business model, and just delete 8mmVintageCamera .

This is app produces beautiful video images. Amazing colors. I actually love it and use it a lot. BUT, 8mmVintageCamera purposefully removes stabilization when filming, it is so shaky. Looks terrible when filming from a moving vehicle for example. This should be an option, not forced upon us. My phone has IBIS. I would like to take advantage of it. I even enjoy shooting at 18fps because it looks older, but the forced camera shake is unnecessary. Make that an option please. Will gladly change my rating.

As others have said not having a subscription is really great. I do wish I had more control over the amount the filter is applied. It looks great in app but once it gets used online somewhere it’s further reduced in quality making it very pixelated and blurry. If I could tone down the basics like the amount of grain it would be perfect!

The free version did not do as much, but it seemed more straightforward and easier to use. The paid version has some nice features, but seems impossible to work with, and save projects effectively. I end up getting multiple projects saved, but only to the project folder, and not to my video folder. I’m not a technological idiot. This is just clunky.

The only big complaint I have about 8mmVintageCamera is how I’m not able to play music from my phone in the background as I use it like I would snapchat, why would it not have that feature? It would be so convenient to film with music! Would be nice if that feature is added!!!

Worth the money. This is the coolest app I’ve ever bought. The filters are great. The borders are great. The manual jitters are great. It’s easy to upload video to it. You have flash and front-facing camera. It’s an aesthetically pleasing design—and a design that strikes the perfect balance between plenty of effect options and button minimalism for ease of use. Also, there are no pay blocks once you’re in 8mmVintageCamera like other vintage filter apps (it doesn’t demand you upgrade to a pro service or subscribe to anything; every feature is unlocked). Not disappointed in the least. Will be using this for fun and for art projects.

This allows you to not only shoot within 8mmVintageCamera , but you can open other videos you shot on your iPhone IN 8mmVintageCamera . So you can give any video previously shot, a Super-8 “film like “cool look. You can add a film projector sound, film skips (as if you recorded it off a projector as it played on a screen), and you’re able to add some projected film scratches. Try it out, it’s free and you’ll make videos with a very unusual look that you can call your own.

I’ve had 8mmVintageCamera since I owned an iPhone 3GS. They have continued to support their app throughout the years which is extremely commendable, especially for an app that is just a one time purchase. No microtransactions. The video and filter quality is impeccable. You can record vintage style videos without sacrificing sound or image. 10/10 will always recommend 8mmVintageCamera as long as the company continues to support it.

In an age where a “decent” app requires a monthly subscription including a quart of your blood, an app like this is amazing. Firstly, the effects of phenomenal, especially if you’re into making arty / edgy style movies for creative reasons (my favourite filter is the 1920s). Secondly, it is long supported by the developers though they’re not sucking dry the people who originally bought 8mmVintageCamera as a once-off purchase. The only way we’ll get apps like this again to be common place is if we only subscribe to services that deliver significant content regularly (like streaming services) and turn out backs on apps that initially started off as a once off buy but then changed it into a subscription model basically forcing you into B s subscriptions.
It’s a “Greed is Good” mentality and it only works if we let it. Rather, for innovation’s sake, support apps like this, then look into their latest pay once apps and support them that way.
Otherwise app tech just stagnates and grows incriminately.

Just want to drop a note to say that 8mmVintageCamera is amazing I’ve been having it feel like forever and it still works as it was intended. And now that the vintage film look is really in.. again.. I’m using it more than ever. Thank you for such an amazing application.

First off 8mmVintageCamera is great. What I would like to see though is an option to add retro style camcorder text such as a customizable date and time. It would also be nice to have a different camera modes (portrait, landscape, etc). Other then that is app is amazing.

Great app. Only suggestion I’d recommend is to have a option for verticals phone recording. Not the video in vertical format but having the phone orientation be vertical to record the video. Sort of like the “old” Flip video recorders if you know what I mean. That would be an awesome improvement.

Looks great and authentic! Only two things id like to be added is a film that looks more true to life in its colors. Second is a realistic film border frame, the one included moves a bit too much and just seems a bit off.