As an avid iOS photographer this project intrigues me

[jdsimcoe]

Excited to see/hear what your vision is for this camera app. 📷 👍

[JohnCoates]

Great! You're the first person to star this, so thanks for that.

The vision is quite big for this, and I plan to put it in the Readme soon, but I'll post a bit about it here.

First a bit of history A few years ago I was really into making short video blogs. I didn't like using the front facing camera because of its low quality, so I would always record with the back camera. About a quarter of the time I would accidentally end the recording. That issue started a spark in thinking about designing a better camera interface. The ideas kept growing, and suddenly I had several things that would make a good camera. I partnered with a UX designer who works at Google, and we started working on designing an app. After several iterations it became obvious that we had very differing views of what the interface should look like, and wouldn't be able to agree on anything.

If you take a look at the current landscape of camera apps, there's a lot of variation in design. You can download a camera that has dozens of controls, or some that just have a capture button. The goal with Slate is to be modular and customizable. Don't ever use flash? Remove it from the screen. Do you accidentally cancel your videos? Set Slate to require a slide to cancel. Love your setup and think others would enjoy? Share it. Switch between setups.

People create some very cool filters in Lightroom, Photoshop, etc. With Slate the vision is to give people the power of creating their own filters, and sharing them. You see apps now boasting about their dozens of filters. With Slate the filters will be crowd sourced, and you'll browse the top downloaded or currently hot to find filters that appeal to you.