Camera Restricta won’t let you take clichéd snaps

Sep21

by Sindy Cator on September 21, 2015 at 5:23 pm

Do you ever admire other people’s beautifully aloof holiday snaps online? How do they manage to avoid all the typical tourist photos but still showcase their trips in a unique, creative way? Well, Camera Restricta might be the answer. It’s essentially an app with an accompanying 3D-printed camera case for your phone that stops you from taking too many (or any) clichéd tourist photos. The name Camera Restricta is a nod to the first photographic camera, the Camera Obscura. It works by using GPS to find your location and then gauges the density of other geotagged photos from the area through…