VHS: 90s Retro Camcorder

VHS turns your iPhone into a camcorder from 1994. Not a filter laid over your video afterward. The tape damage is recorded into the file as you shoot, the way a camcorder worked, so what you see in the viewfinder is exactly the video you get. There is no clean master hiding underneath. WHAT MAKES IT LOOK REAL Most retro apps stack a grain overlay and a color wash on top of a modern picture. This one models what the format actually did to a signal: Color bleeds sideways past its edges, because VHS carried color at a sixth of the detail of brightness and laid it down a moment late. A white halo trails every hard edge, the pre emphasis overshoot that is most of why tape reads as tape. Scan lines start early or late as the transport wanders, the picture tears into noise across the bottom band where one head handed off to the other, and dropouts flash bright streaks when the oxide fails.…