Okay… so if I am not going to have a point and shoot camera that at least rivals my iPhone 14 Pro Max, then I should really start using my iPhone 14 Pro Max’s camera more often, right? That’s just logical, even if you are a friggin’ snob like me, right?

It’s been over a year since I’ve thought about camera work flow using my phone. What are some of the things I used to do? Edit on Camera+? Okay. Edit in CameraBag? Do I still have that app? I haven’t used that one in many generations. Okay.

Hipstamatic. If I start using Hipstamatic again, will I be the only red head on Earth using it? Yeah, maybe. I still have the app on my phone, but only because it was there when I initially restored the new phone from a backup almost a year ago. Do I have any of my in-app purchased film/lens packs? No. None. Fortunately I was able to restore all of those purchases… and there were a lot of them.

To test drive that the two main settings I used to use in Hipstamatic are still functioning (shake to shuffle and save the original photo with the filtered photo) I decided to bring back and old “favorite”*, Hipsta-Kitty!

Granted, The Hipsta-Kitty was our Miss Patches and she has passed away, so this is more like Hipsta-Kitty Mark II, but it still works. Here is Robin, who slept through most of this.

So yes, shake to shuffle and save the original both still work, and all of my favorite combos are still there, and all of my previous purchases have been restored. Should I end up going with my iPhone 14 Pro Max as my go-to point and shoot, Hipstamatic will once again be there for me… even if I am the only living creature in the known (or unknown) universe (or multiverse) still using it.

Groovy.

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ADDENDUM: I hit publish, forgetting I was going to add a footnote. So I will add the footnote to the addendum. Right on.

*When I say “favorite”, was hipsta-kitty ever really anyone’s favorite or was it just me verbally yanking the universe’s chain? Probably the yanking.