# Camera used in this pictures? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 30, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-used-in-this-pictures/702959 "2014-10-30T02:57:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ocebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/87869e/32.png) [@Ocebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ocebe)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-used-in-this-pictures/702959/1 "2014-10-30T02:57:50Z")
Hi everybody, I recently saw this photos from the shooting of a movie. I would say they have an Hasselblad look. And I would love to be wrong since that cameras cost as much as planes. Anyway I want to know, here them are: [http://www.foroazkenarock.com/t42957p100-noticias-cinematograficas-el-topic#4237144](http://www.foroazkenarock.com/t42957p100-noticias-cinematograficas-el-topic#4237144) Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-used-in-this-pictures/702959/2 "2014-10-30T03:30:27Z")
Do you mean the pics from Insidious3? Really, without looking at the EXIFs or finding out who took the pictures, there’s no way of telling. Especially because the pictures are re-sized for the web. To me, they look like someone put a software vignetting filter on them, but they could have been taken with just about any modern DSLR. I don’t know enough about the film industry to know if they’d bother taking this kind of picture with a medium format camera, but it seems like overkill. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-used-in-this-pictures/702959/3 "2014-10-30T03:31:52Z")
Could those rather crappy/artistic looking photos be the work of a [Holga](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holga)? Was it the square format that you were looking for? That’s one cheap camera that will do it in spades. ETA: Here’s another page with a few [Holga](http://microsites.lomography.com/holga/) examples ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-used-in-this-pictures/702959/4 "2014-10-30T03:54:45Z")
[Those are Instagram pics.](http://www.enjoygram.com/insidiousmovie) The square format, filters, and hashtag at the top pretty much make it obvious. Those can be taken with any decent cell phone or data enabled digital camera. [You can see the full sized pics on their Twitter feed.](https://twitter.com/InsidiousMovie) ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-used-in-this-pictures/702959/5 "2014-10-30T03:57:23Z")
You don’t need a square-format camera to take square pictures. Just use pictures taken with any camera, and crop them to a square format. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-used-in-this-pictures/702959/6 "2014-10-30T04:36:55Z")
Could this be stealth spam? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-used-in-this-pictures/702959/7 "2014-10-30T04:38:02Z")
With the latest version of iOS, my phone takes square pictures now. No cropping or messing around required. I’m underwhelmed by it. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-used-in-this-pictures/702959/8 "2014-10-30T04:44:02Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > With the latest version of iOS, my phone takes square pictures now. No cropping or messing around required. I’m underwhelmed by it. Isn’t that just a setting that can be changed? Only Instagram (afaik) forces those 1:1 pics. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-used-in-this-pictures/702959/9 "2014-10-30T06:02:36Z")
There are several apps available for iPhone that will allow you to take pics like that. ---
**Author:** ![Ocebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/87869e/32.png) [@Ocebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ocebe)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-used-in-this-pictures/702959/10 "2014-10-30T11:57:16Z")
Thanks everybody for your time and consideration ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-used-in-this-pictures/702959/11 "2014-10-30T20:50:22Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > [Those are Instagram pics.](http://www.enjoygram.com/insidiousmovie) The square format, filters, and hashtag at the top pretty much make it obvious. Those can be taken with any decent cell phone or data enabled digital camera. > > [You can see the full sized pics on their Twitter feed.](https://twitter.com/InsidiousMovie) Well, they may have Instagram-like filters on them or are cropped to Instagram square specifications, but those are not, for the most part from what I see, cell phone photos (observe the apparent focal lengths and the depth of field). I don’t even think most of those are processed in Instagram, just posted to it (and a lot of my photographer friends do that themselves–they post their own photos on Instagram with their own look. I personally only post cell phone photos on my Instagram feed, but I don’t necessarily use Instagram for processing.) Anyhow, most of these photos just look like normal processed dSLR photos. You might need to have some nice f/2.8 or faster glass for some of them, but there’s nothing particularly Hasselblad-y about these. (Although it’d be difficult to tell at the size they are displayed.) ---
**Author:** ![Ocebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/87869e/32.png) [@Ocebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ocebe)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-used-in-this-pictures/702959/12 "2014-10-30T23:45:20Z")
Thanks pulykamell. I asked because I found curious something in the focus, and the light. The cameras I know doesn´t act like that. Yeah, it may be the lens.