Capturing Authentic Memories with the iPhone 17 Pro and Daz Camera App

For the last few months, I've been taking a lot more photos and videos with the iPhone 17 Pro.

>> That's gonna be a winner for sure. >> But instead of the results looking like this, they look more like this and this

and this. You see, I've been on a bit of a mission. Because remember when our

memories looked like this? >> Why'd you put the potato in your hair? >> Grainy, shaky audio that's clipping all

over the place. >> Another beautiful cloud. That's what a memory feels like to me. Not this. not

the most perfected ideal representation of a moment. Memories are kind of hazy and shaky and a bit blurry.

Memories have a feeling. Now, I have many cameras that achieve this look very easily. You just saw footage from this

guy. But, as you probably learned by now, I'm a bit reckless, so I don't always want to be carrying these cameras

around that are more likely to break. And the batteries don't last that long. Plus, you have to transfer the DV tapes.

So, I've been on this mission to try to get this look with a phone. So, I started with the iPhone because you know

me, I'm an Android girly, but even I can admit the app store is superior, especially when it comes to camera apps.

There is no shortage of camera apps that can manipulate your photos and videos to achieve a unique look. This one is

Halli. It's probably the most popular because it had this one cool trick that sort of blew up. It's called Process

Zero. Process zero lives up here in the Halllight app and once enabled allows users to sort of bypass Apple's

processing. When you take a photo with an iPhone, it's actually capturing many images that it then combines to create a

sort of super image, if you will. One that is perfectly exposed and has little to no grain. Process zero instead takes

a singleshot approach. That means it takes one photo that allows you far more control over your camera settings, such

as shutter speed, which means you can overexpose, underexpose, you can get a bit of grain, and overall you'll get a

shot that is in theory much closer to the look of a traditional camera. One that lets shadows be shadows and

highlights be highlights. This does mean that at night though, where our phones work extra hard to get great shots

because they have tiny sensors, process zero is going to show a lot of grain. Halliad and Process Zero are super cool,

but the irony of them is that they still kind of require some processing. It works best when you bring that RAW file

into Lightroom and you process it yourself or even within the app itself. And for what I want to do, preserving

memories in a way that looks how I want them to look, I need something far more plug-and-play, which led me to Mood

Camera. It has all of these filmike presets, and yeah, they're all fine, but none of them really spark joy. So, that

led me to Camera from Not Boring. This app has some of my least favorite color presets, but it has the best looking UI.

The only problem is UI alone can only entertain for so long. So, once I got bored with this app, well, that's when I

found Daz. More on that after some on this. Now, you may have noticed I've been rocking a pretty sweet case. This

is the Oand case from Taurus. It has this incredible built-in metal ring that of course you can fidget with or use as

a grip, but you can also use it to hang your phone from things to get cool angles or fold it out to use like a

tripod. A perfect filming companion. Not to mention, it has this anti-slip texture and these airbag corners. It'll

keep your device safe. There's also this new Christmas green case, and it came with these very cute stickers. I mean,

come on. I also played one of Torres's Oregon Armor screen protectors. It has an anti-reflective coating, which makes

seeing my screen and therefore framing my shots a whole lot easier in bright light. Torres also makes this case for

Samsung and Google devices. There's a link down in my bio if you want to check those out. Thank you, Taurus, for

sponsoring this video. Now, back to the show. Daz's core function is similar to all of the others. It is just a camera

app with a way to manipulate color and tone. But between the insane amount of quote unquote cameras it can emulate and

the wildly different results you can get from said cameras, I was hooked. >> Dude, it's just so fun.

>> Let me show you how Daz works. I mapped it to my action button so I can open it as quick as I could open any other

camera. Down here in the corner, this is where all of your different camera presets are. On the top is all video

presets and on the bottom are all photo presets. If you click a camera and you hit sample, you can see what the photos

from that quote unquote camera are going to look like. Then down here in the corner are all the different settings

you have for every camera. So for the 16 mm, you can pick the film stock or the color preset really, the frames per

second, and what the frame around your video is going to look like, amongst other settings, of course. Then once you

have a camera selected, you go back home and you can take your photo. The only thing that's mildly frustrating, but I

can also see the good in is that you can't see a filter on a photo until after you've taken the photo. So now my

filter is applied. The con of this is, you know, you don't know what you're going to get. The pro of this is that

you don't know what you're going to get. What a sunset. What hooked me at first was the golf

preset. It's based on this 35mm Fujifilm camera that was designed to capture golf swings by taking 16 rapidfire photos in

Daz. This results in a sort of photo stacking GIF. Next, I fell in love with the 16 mm and 8 mm video modes. They got

these warm tones, bit of softness, subtle shake as if you know film was moving through a gate at a rapid speed.

Dlide had me in love next with seeing what random border the app would slap on photos. And 135 NE with its light grain.

Oh my god, I love But the funny and ironic part about Daz Cam is that I've been using it a lot and I've posted

maybe one of the photos from it, which isn't dissimilar to what happens with footage from my mini DV camera. So, a

few weeks ago, I posted in my Patreon exclusive newsletter about Artha Franklin. And I know this seems a little

out of place, but stick with me. If you've been online recently, you've probably seen all these photos of her

with cameras resurfacing. And oh my god, what a collection she had. But nowhere, and I mean nowhere, will you find the

footage she actually shot? Now, I have to imagine that some of that is because she was a celebrity and of course

there's privacy issues there and then of course the obvious that social media didn't really exist when she was

capturing all this footage. But I also think it's fair to speculate that maybe she just liked using cameras.

>> Hey, >> are you shooting that right now? >> Yeah. Wait, what kind of moment is this?

>> Is this something this for you or is this uh >> Maybe it wasn't about where the footage

ended up. Maybe it was about the joy of capturing it. >> Oh, hi. Hi.

>> Didn't mean to interrupt you. >> Yeah. >> That's how I feel about cameras. I just

like seeing how light will be captured through different lenses on different film stocks. I like zooming in and out.

I like the companionship a camera provides something to keep my mind busy, fuel my curiosity. And Daz does all of

that, too. The endless cameras keep me curious. The not being able to see the filter until after you take the shot

keeps me excited for a reveal. And because it's just an app on my phone, well, it's always with me. Not to

mention that when I look back on what I shot with it, everything feels like a memory. I guess I just never thought

that camera emulation apps could do all of that for me because I've always seen them as like knockoffs of real cameras.

But the truth is, I was wrong. This is so fun. You just have to find the right one. Wait, but Daz, one note, I wish

that when I did video, the audio also had an effect on it because it kind of uh ruins the illusion when it's just

like iPhone audio. So, if we could get some some audio, you know, changing, that'd be sick. The only downside to Daz

is that from what I've read online, it used to be a flat $20 fee to unlock all of the cameras for life. But now, like

every other damn app on the app store, it's a subscriptionbased model, and I think it's $6.99 a year, although you

can use many of the presets without paying for them. Okay, so that's my favorite app of 2025, a camera emulation

app. So simple, so fun. Yeah, I freaking love it. Um, let me know your favorite app down in the comments. I was talking

to folks on Patreon about this this week and there are just so many apps I've never heard of. So, drop them down below

so that we can all learn about them. As always, I'm Becca and oh, I know that I said we were going to talk about laptops

in this video, but I promise next video we're talking about that bad boy right over there. Okay, I'll see you in the

next one.