Photography apps: The wired and the weird

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Screened this month: Photo apps, new and useful.

THE WIRED

8mm Vintage Camera Forget Hipstamatic -- 8mm Vintage Camera takes vintage to the next level. A range of lenses, films and effects will give your movies the edge, generated in real time.

iOS, £1.49

Pano This easy-to-use app intelligently creates a panorama for you on the fly. Simply use the on-screen guides to ensure you line up frames perfectly during shooting to make your 360°.iOS, £1.49; Android, £1.87

iTime Lapse Pro

Compress a whole day's office action into a one-minute video clip.

This app has a wealth of recording settings to ensure your patient voyeurism is always rewarded.

iOS, £1.49

Camera+ From taking a photo, to cropping, tweaking and uploading it, Camera+ handles the entire process of perfecting your amateur shots. It's to your iPhone what Photoshop is to your DSLR.

iOS, £0.69

Paper Camera Who needs fancy lens filters? The Paper Camera app renders your smartphone snaps as arty pencil drawings, soft pastel sketches and Pop Art-style comic-book panels.

Android, £1.19

THE WEIRD

Cat Paint

Described by its developer as "the premier cat-based image editor for the iPhone", CatPaint lets you add cats to your photos, and laser eyes to your cats.

Essential.

iOS, £0.69

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