2 a.m.,
shot on a digicam

A 2000s digicam photo looks the way it does for a handful of reasons. Small CCD sensors left shadows a little cyan and highlights warm; 3 to 7 megapixels and a tiny lens made everything soft, and the camera then sharpened hard, leaving a bright halo around edges. Memory was precious, so JPEGs were compressed hard enough to show blocks. At night the built-in flash blew out the middle of the frame and let the corners fall into the dark.

This tool rebuilds each of those in code. It first crops your photo to 4:3 and scales it to the body's resolution (long edge 1,280 px for the 2002 webcam, 2,048 px for the 2004 silver compact, 2,592 px for the 2007 pink slim, 3,072 px for the 2009 point-and-shoot), never upscaling. Then it adds slight barrel distortion, softness, an oversharpening halo, the body's colour (cyan shadows, warm highlights) and colour noise in the darks. With flash on, the light falls from +0.55 EV in the centre to −1.2 EV in the corners, with a cooler colour.

Last, the orange 7-segment date stamp is burnt into the picture and the JPEG is encoded at the body's quality (0.45 to 0.78): the blocks come from real JPEG compression, not a fake effect. Noise comes from a random generator seeded by the shot number, so the same photo always gives the same result. This is a design, not an emulator: it does not claim to reproduce any camera model.

Sample photo: an AI-generated scene (Gemini) run through this filter. An empty street: no people, no text, no logos.

On the English page the stamp reads month, day, year (10 30 '26); on the Korean page year first ('26 10 30). Single-digit months and days are padded with a blank digit, like the old cameras. The date is this phone's date at the moment you shoot.

With the weather stamp on, the temperature (a whole number, °F here) and a sky glyph follow: clear (ring), some cloud (cloud outline), cloudy (filled cloud), rain, sleet, snow. The stamp is 4.2 % of the short edge tall, 4 % in from the bottom-right corner. There is no place name on the stamp in this version.

If you allow location, this phone finds the nearest of the Korea Meteorological Administration's 3,564 neighbourhood forecast points. Within 30 km it uses that point's 5 km grid cell and KMA's data; farther away it uses MET Norway's forecast for your position rounded to 0.1°.

MET Norway's value is the forecast for the current hour (temperature at 2 m and the next-hour symbol), shown in the caption as "MET Norway forecast for this hour". KMA's value is the latest hourly observation, with the sky from its short-range forecast. A missing temperature means a date-only stamp.

The reading is fetched when you turn the weather stamp on and refreshed every 10 minutes while the page is open; the shutter never waits for it. If it can't be fetched you'll see "Couldn't get the weather right now. Stamped the date only."

Weather is for fun, not for safety decisions. Check your national weather service for warnings.

Photos are processed and saved on your phone. They are never uploaded, and their content is never analysed or logged. There is no face detection (which is also why there is no red-eye effect). Saved JPGs carry no EXIF.

Only with the weather stamp on does a coarse location (a KMA grid cell number, or your position rounded to 0.1°) go through our server to KMA or MET Norway. Our server logs keep neither the location nor your IP. Analytics record only kinds of action ("shot taken"), never place, time or position.