Shooting from the Hipstamatic: How I wised up to my smartphone's potential 

“It is vital for photojournalists that their work has authenticity, that the viewer trusts the images. This is what makes me uneasy about embracing the iPhone as a journalistic tool. Yet these apps do take me back to the days when I was a black-and-white film photographer using old cameras such as the twin-lens reflex Mamiya C330. Hipstamatic has a square format like old medium-format film; the filters tend to have shallow depth of field and, like many medium-format cameras, produce a lot of quirks. Among photographers, there is a lingering lack of faith in the digital process, and I think this is one of the reasons why photo filters that mimic old film photography are so potent: they give a distinct feel to an otherwise generic photographic process.”