Afterhours
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Afterhours recreates the look and feel of iconic late-90s / 2000s consumer cameras — not as a filter slapped on afterward, but as a live viewfinder you shoot through.
Pick a camera from the gallery, and everything changes with it: the color science, the sensor artifacts, the on-screen chrome burned into your footage, even which controls you're allowed to touch. Everything runs on-device. No cloud, no ML, no account.
The artifact layer is the product. Most retro-camera apps stop at a color grade. Afterhours simulates the behavior of old cameras: auto-gain that visibly hunts, highlights that clip the way tape clips, single-frame tape dropouts on an 8–15 second clock, noise that reseeds every frame, and diegetic overlays burned into every capture exactly as previewed.
What you see is what you record. The live viewfinder, still capture, and video export all share the same look — the output matches the preview, including audio. Each camera in the collection has its own color science, its own artifacts, and its own control set. Adding a new one is a design exercise, not an engineering one.
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NS-8 Free
The camcorder everyone remembers. That washed-out green signature, the OSD burned into the frame, the gain that visibly hunts in low light — all live in your viewfinder. Shoot in color, green night vision, or mono. Built for Reels by default, or flip to 4:3 for the authentic look. Shake it and watch the tape complain.
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SNAP-27 Free
One roll. 27 shots. No preview until you develop. The hard flash, the grain, the accidental light leaks — none of it is cosmetic. Pick up a Mint camera or a Busted one; the condition changes how your roll turns out. Film photography, with the friction intact.
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CZ-30 Paid
The pocket digicam that made everything look slightly too sharp and slightly too warm. 15fps, a date stamp burned into your stills, and flash shots that come out cool and pale while ambient ones stay warm and punchy — exactly how those cameras actually behaved.
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HDV-2000 Paid
The tape deck. Interlace combing, chroma smear, dropout glitches — the full 2005 MiniDV stack. Video-only, 60-second clips. The only camera in the collection that knows which way you're holding it: shoot landscape and you get the full wide frame.
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DV-90 Free
The party camcorder with the fisheye adapter screwed on permanently. Crunch the whole room into one barrel-distorted circle. More color smear than a broadcast deck. Tints in red, green, or mono only — nothing polite. Built for shots you weren't supposed to get.
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G8X MIII Experimental
The anti-artifact camera. Clean color, real blacks, no in-signal chrome — the look of a modern compact taken seriously. On stills, it blurs the background and blooms the out-of-focus highlights, focused on whoever's in the frame. Flash mode fuses a lit subject over an ambient background, like a real slow-sync exposure. Free while the look is being dialed in.
CZ-30 Photo
SNAP-27 Photo
G8X MIII Photo
HDV-2000 Video
Everything happens on your device, in real time. When you point the camera and press record, what you see in the viewfinder is exactly what ends up in your photo library — the same look, no post-processing step.
Each camera in the collection is a complete recreation: the color science, the artifacts, the on-screen chrome, even the quirks that made those cameras feel the way they did. Switching cameras changes the whole experience, not just a color grade.
No cloud upload. No account. No waiting. Just shoot.
- Provider
- Bricks&Canvas
- Website
- bricksandcanvas.design
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Status
- In development · Two cameras shipped, more in progress
- Compatibility
- iPhone · Requires iOS 16.0 or later
- Privacy
- Everything on-device — no cloud, no account, no data collection
- Privacy Policy
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- Copyright
- © Bricks&Canvas