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Eight shots, no do-overs

Why Eight Shot gives you a pack of eight and a counter that only counts down.

Nabeel & Ruban · · 2 min read

  • Eight Shot
  • Behind the pass
  • Design
An instant print of two friends at a festival, cheek to cheek and laughing.
One print from a pack of eight.

A phone camera will take as many photos as you like. That’s the problem. You take forty of the same moment, keep none of them and never look at them again.

Eight Shot goes the other way. Every roll starts as a real 8-shot film pack,1 and a counter ticks down as you shoot, the same way a physical instant-film pack does. When it says nought, the pack is done.

Fewer shots. More photographs.

How a pack works#

There are no settings to learn before your first shot. A pack goes like this:

  1. Load a pack. Each one has its own frame and finish.
  2. Frame and capture, one shot at a time. The counter drops by one.
  3. Develop your prints, then load the next pack.
The Eight Shot camera screen: a square viewfinder above flash, double exposure, self-timer and camera-flip buttons, with a red shutter button.
The camera. One shutter, a handful of controls.
A strip of four photobooth-style frames of two friends.
Four frames from one sitting.

Every frame counts#

With eight to a pack you stop spraying and start choosing. You wait for the laugh instead of shooting through it. The camera keeps the old habits: flash, a self-timer and a shutter that feels like it’s doing something.

An instant print of a woman laughing at a festival at night.
Night out
An instant print in a black frame of a woman resting her chin on her hand.
Black frame
An instant print in a yellow frame of a woman at sunset.
Golden hour
An instant print of a woman in dappled shade under trees.
Afternoon

Double exposure#

Layer two shots into a single frame. It costs you one shot from the pack, so you think about both halves before you press.

I sat on the shutter button twice. That’s a double exposure.

Leo, Chief Mouse Officer

Packs, and making your own#

Packs change the look of every print: the frame, the colour, the finish. If none of them is quite right, the Film Pack Creator lets you build your own.

A dark grey 8-shot film pack beside a print of a lone tree in the desert.
Desert
A teal 8-shot film pack beside a print of a woman in a city.
City
A leopard-print 8-shot film pack beside a print in a leopard-print frame.
Leopard

The recipe: a film pack of your own

Ingredients

  • Grain, to taste
  • Colour
  • Saturation
  • One frame

Method

  1. Open Film Packs and choose Film Pack Creator.
  2. Adjust the grain, colour and saturation.
  3. Shoot a pack and see how it develops.
The Film Packs screen in Eight Shot, showing Rainbow Film with Unlock Film and Buy buttons.
Choosing a pack.
The Film Pack Creator screen, with sliders to customise a film and a Buy for £4.99 button.
The Film Pack Creator.

Shared albums#

A pack shot at a party belongs to everyone who was there. Shared albums collect a pack’s shots together with friends, so the prints end up in one place instead of five camera rolls.

A shared album called Weekend Festival showing a print of two friends, with a Share to Instagram button.
A shared album from a weekend away.

Eight Shot at a glance#

On the menu
CourseWhat you get
Eight ShotFree, with 8-shot film packs, double exposure and shared albums
Film Pack Creator£4.99, one-off2
Works oniPhone (iOS 17+) and Android
Made foriPhone Duo

Try the dish

Eight Shot is free to download.

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Notes

  1. There’s no rewinding. Like the real thing, a shot taken is a shot taken. ↩
  2. A one-time purchase in the app. ↩

Cooked by Nabeel & Ruban. Inspected by Leo.