Camera+ Updated to 1.2. It Really is the Ultimate Photo App
Camera+ by tap tap tap has been updated to version 1.2 and this is the update we’ve been waiting for. This is a huge update for the app — more than its incremental .1 upgrade implies. Version 1.2 really is the “ultimate photo app”.
The complete What’s New is listed below. The separate Focus and Exposure features are very nice — the gestures take a little experimentation and getting used to — but what puts Camera+ over the top and into awesome is the picture taking speed, what I call “reload time”. In a word, fast. very fast. Now, Camera+ lets you fire off more than 1 shot per second. For photographers who like to take multiple rapid shots to either get the perfect photo or for safety shots, this feature alone makes the upgrade. My biggest complaint about the app in previous versions was the several second lag between photos. Now, Camera+ is nearly as fast as the iPhone 4′s speedy new camera.
A full LoFi review is coming soon. I know this app has already sold a jillion copies (okay, more like around 300,000), but I’m glad I held off reviewing until this version. It’s still $1.99 “for a very limited time” in the App Store, but it’s rumored to go up to $4.99 at any time. Camera+ version 1.2 is an excellent photo app and worthy of the buzz, hype and excitement.
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What’s New In Version 1.2
- [Camera+ exclusive] Touch Exposure: set exposure separately from focus for the ultimate control of your shots (touch with a second finger to control exposure)
- [Camera+ exclusive] Touch Focus: better than tap to focus because you can continuously drag the focus box around until your shots are in perfect focus
- [Camera+ exclusive] Photo Flashlight: use the iPhone 4 LED flash as a continuous fill light to improve photo quality, especially for portrait and macro shots
- speed of photo taking is now lightning fast
- the high quality zoom control now works on iOS 4
- stabilizer improvements
- detailed metadata is now uploaded to photos shared on Flickr
- fixed a bug where the camera shutter button would stop functioning
- fixed a bug where photos wouldn’t display in the Lightbox on an iPad when in 2× magnification mode #weird
- various minor bug fixes and enhancements
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App Store link: Camera+
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Marty is a self-employed graphic designer in the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex. He is an avid Rangers baseball, Chicago Cubs, Packers and Highbury Arsenal fan. In addition to capturing random moments with whatever camera is close by (usually his iPhone), his other interests include coffee, film, music, and traveling in seats 5E and 5F with his fiancé.
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As much as I hate TapTapTap's unethical business practices and bad PR tactics, the new Camera+ update is gorgeous.
Been playing with it today. I like the new focus and exposure control but do find them cumbersome to use.
I like the improvements to camera+ but here's the big problem. They mention the fix when using it on the iPad but it still saves "postage stamp size" images when used on the iPad. What's up with that?
Why do some of these camera apps add extra steps to take? I don't want photos saved to a lightbox to then transfer to my camera roll. Just frigging save them in the camera roll!
I really wish there were a 7 day trial for apps because it's annoying to buy one and immediately realize it's a pain to actually use. I think I'm going to skip this one for now.
Hi, Rob,
With most camera apps w/lightbox, I agree. They're frustrating and you end up with multiple copies of photos filling up your iPhone. One of the things I like about Camera+' lightbox is that once you sync an image to the phone's camera roll, it disappears from the app's lightbox. While it's a little inconvenient trying to keep track of which photo is where, it also allows me to weed out the chaff, if you will, before it gets to my camera roll which already gets cluttered up pretty easily.
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